A locavore’s holiday: National Farmer’s Market Week

In case you didn't know, this coming week August 5 - 11 is National Farmer's Market Week. All hail the mighty American farmer! Locavores, unite! Believe me when I tell you, farmers don't do what they do for the money. Well, they try to. But for smaller farms, it's becoming harder and harder to break even these [...]

My top 10 kitchen prep essentials

While perusing a book I'd recently acquired on food and cooking (totally out of character for me, right, to pick up yet another cookbook? You can all laugh now), a section in it got me to thinking. The book proposed 12 essential tools for the kitchen. While I had everything except two (though both were [...]

Your plate: Budgeting for cost, or for convenience?

Think it's cheaper to pick up a pre-packaged pizza than browse your supermarket's produce aisle? Recent studies are saying, "Absolutely." According to an article written on Food Navigator-USA by Elaine Watson last week, studies released by searchers in the U.S. and the UK have concluded that more nutrient-dense food (meaning foods better for you with [...]