So were making our cake last night for the silent auction at the B&G banquet, and I'm trying to modify the recipe with applesauce to make it less deadly and Mer says "Mom, I have something to tell you" I'm thinking shit, what happened because I dared to try and catch up on work and wasn't at sch...

Ah, California, that prodigious producer of fruits, nuts, and flakes. Alice Waters, the famous Chez Panisse chef, has seized on the national craze for bailouts to demand organic, unprocessed school lunches for all. How like a Californian to seize on a trend early: Wall Street and Detroit are getting...

Hah, the Obamas brought their own personal home chef with them to The White House. And oddly that bit of crazy elitism will please all the hippies. Because Sam Kass—who will just be one of their personal cooks, with White House Executive Chef Cristeta Comerford keeping her job!—is "one o...

There’s been a lot of hullabaloo about who will cook for the Obamas, with Alice Waters slagging Bush administration holdover Cristeta Comerford for not being green enough, and former White House chef Walter Scheib defending Comerford. Well, I would like to remind people of something that will ...

It may just be that never before in modern American history have we been so interested in food. From the high price of food to the worth of organics and local agriculture and the impacts of all of the above on global warming and world hunger, not to mention whether it’s important for consumers to ...

For some time now, certain Boulder-ites of my acquaintance have been arguing the case for their ... town? is Boulder a town? ... being the center of the hip world. Or is it hippie. I am confused. But aren't we all ... the adrenaline crash, well, let us just respect that adrenaline is a powerful, pow...

Ethicurean headquarters in Oakland, CA, should have been the home stadium for a preview screening of “Food Fight,” the new documentary by Chris Taylor. After all, this “story of culinary revolt” covers the damage wrought by industrialization of the food system and features st...

Last Saturday I attended the launch of the Slow Food Nation Victory Garden at the foot of San Francisco’s City Hall, on a site what was recently an ornamental lawn. The garden, which takes its name from the World War II campaign to get citizens to grow their own food to support the war effort,...

Physically active less likely to get some cancers Japanese men who are physically active have a 13 percent lower risk of developing cancer, while more active women are 16 percent less likely to get the disease, according to a study from Japan’s National Science Centre. The link between activit...