Ladies and Gentlemen…start your engines, tune up your bikes, grab your hiking boots! The Eat Well Guide is challenging you to find good food on the road, wherever your travels take you this spring break! And for the first time ever, we’re offering PRIZES to spring breakers who plan the m...

Mrs. Obama on the line at Miriam’s Kitchen; photo courtesy of Choice Photography. Last week, Michelle Obama made news by serving a meal at Miriam’s Kitchen, a DC social service agency. Miriam’s Kitchen feeds 4,000 people each year, mostly from fresh, wholesome ingredients. I caught up with...

When I first arrived on PEI, it seemed odd to me that it was so hard to buy local seafood except from the supermarket. I did not then have the network that would enable me to buy direct from a......

Buongiorno. This week one of the highlights from my farmers market visit was finding a locally-harvested couple of pounds of local Manila clams from the Point Reyes Oyster Company. Usually the clams you get here on the West Coast are width of a plum: you buy a pound and you get about 12-15. When mak...

image: The Tyee The Hundred Mile Diet is so....2005. And so big! In their book, Alisa Smith and J.B. MacKinnon described how hard it was to find bread that met the criterion, and about their search for flour that was grown within a hundred miles of their Vancouver home. Now James Glave writes in the...

Finally some food news that involves neither mercury nor salmonella! Originally posted on Garden of Eatin’ by Eve Fox, who was kind enough to share with us and is lucky enough to work upstairs from Amanda’s brilliant new green, healthy fast food restaurant (you heard me!) in Berkeley. Yo...

(Joseph’s foray into vegetarianism continues — don’t miss the delicious-looking squash risotto recipe, below the jump. - Leslie) As children, we’re told not to judge a book by it’s cover, but by it’s content. Beauty is skin deep, and inside the frog awaits a princ...

RTFA: http://whitehousefarmer.com/ The United States has a White House chef . . . and now is the time for a White House Farmer. Everyone, from your family and friends to our First Family and their guests, needs to know who grew their food and how it was grown. Thank you for your 100 nominations of k...

More and more people are taking the plunge into backyard gardening. Some are even planting fruits and veggies in their front yard and adopting the “no-mow” approach. Last year one website, Freedom Gardens, used its social networking platform to coordinate the “100 Foot Diet Challen...

This is kind of fun, if frivolous: Cambridge-based OnLatte Inc. has developed a machine for decorating the frothy foam atop espresso drinks. Founders Josh Grob and Oleksiy Pikalo have repurposed a 1980s-era Kodak inkjet assembly and affixed it to a flat-panel scanner, thereby automating the creation...