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Sharpen Your Sunscreen Savvy

June 22, 2010

Guest blog by Laura Klein, publisher of OrganicAuthority.com.

There’s so much to say about sunscreen—beyond how essential it is.

That’s because the ingredients in countless conventional sunscreen products are astonishingly bad for our health. All you have to do is read Environmental Working Group’s report and guides on sunscreens to… more

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A Visit to My Kitchen: Marta Teegen from Homegrown

June 17, 2010

Marta Teegen, the author of Homegrown: A Growing Guide for Creating a Cook’s Garden (Rodale, 2010), is stopping by my kitchen today. Check out her crisp summer salad recipe and her unusual salt habits!

Marta is a trained master gardener and chef. She worked in politics and in the nonprofit sector before pursuing her lifelong love of gardening and cooking. She owns Homegrown Los Angeles, a garden design business that connects urban residents with the flavors and pleasures of… more

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A Visit to My Kitchen: John Grogan

June 10, 2010

My dear friend John Grogan is in my kitchen today, chatting about eggplant steaks, vegetable chili, and the living and breathing kitchen tool he could never do… more

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A Visitor to My Kitchen: Anni Daulter from Organically Raised

June 3, 2010

Anni Daulter is stopping by my kitchen today to talk about her mission to go organic, to share her must-have kitchen tool, and to make mouths everywhere water with talk of her family’s all-hands-on-deck bread-making routine.

Anni is cofounder of Bohemian Baby, a fresh, organic baby-food company, and the author of Organically Raised—Conscious Cooking for Babies and Toddlers . She has an MSW degree from the University of Southern… more

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Perfect Happiness and Other Questions

January 20, 2010

My local paper, the Morning Call, asked me to answer these questions, from a book called Vanity Fair’s Proust Questionnaire, which Rodale published last year. It’s a great book, featuring cultural figures from Jane Goodall to Johnny Cash answering a series of personal questions made popular by the French writer Marcel Proust (their answers appeared in a series in Vanity Fair magazine). It’s lots of fun to answer the… more

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