Have you seen the full moon? Yeah!? Well, so have my emotions. My GOODNESS does that moon ever take me for a spin! You'd think I'd get used to it, but I don't. Hopefully, Alan will. *grin* Good news, we have a new baby! This little chick hatched yesterday. We're keeping it in the hou...

In a break from my usual “speed bento” lunches that only take about ten minutes to pack, the other week I made more of an effort for Valentine’s Day and made a special lunch for my four-year-old son to take to preschool. You can see his whole classroom’s Valentine bentos lunc...

I had some potatoes that had gotten soft and wrinkly, so this afternoon I decided to cut them up and give the chickens a treat. They get to scratch around the yard for snacks all day, but they get REALLY excited when they get treats from the house. Here's one of the Golden Polish girls who found...

How quickly a week goes by. Today will be cockerel Captain Buttercup’s last day spent in the company of our 13 hens, as part of our family. Tomorrow he goes to start his new life on a farm near York. I really hope it works out for him, and that his life is a long and happy one. We’ve alr...

On January 30th, the Petite Jean poultry plant in Danville, Arkansas shut its doors, and left nearly 600 workers without a job. Many of the workers affected by the closing are immigrants, mainly Hispanic and Laotian, though plenty of local folks have also been hit hard. The situation in Danville is ...

Strike a pose, there’s nothing to it. Vogue! We’re heading ever closer to a world of sad this coming Saturday, which is the day we bid ‘farewell’ to our beloved Buff Orpington cockerel, Captain Buttercup. He’s lived with us for such a long time, ever since he was a tiny...

Yeah OK, we’re listening: The WashPo’s Jane Black interviews new Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack, who says that being an overweight kid has given him insight into childhood nutrition problems, that in an ideal world all food would be purchased locally, and that the USDA needs to help b...

Every year for my and Annie's birthday, we challenge one another with a dessert and over the years, they've gotten more and more difficult and time consuming.  One year I made her a flourless chocolate cake.  Then she made me a carrot cake.  The next year I made her a peanut butter bread pudding ...

The latest Edible San Francisco (of which I am deputy editor) is the Meat Issue and has several articles available online that I think will also be of interest to Ethicurean readers. Head over to ESF’s website to read them (and please leave feedback in the comments — we need letters to the e...

On cold dry Saturday mornings you hear it frequently these days. A sound halfway between a crack and a boom, hollow and distant. It's funny to me that now that I am living right in the heart of a hunting region, I see game much less frequently than I did living in the metropolis of Paris. My local P...