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...

(HT: Christine at Memories of a Catholic Wife and Mother, whose mention of food blogs directed me to some new reading material!) Discovering Organic and Thrifty couldn't have come at a better time, as I really needed to clean out my fridge and I really need to do a better job o...

March is Maple Month, which means it’s time for pancakes and scones and pork chops and whatever else you might pour maple syrup on top of.  The possibilities are endless.  The taps are going all over the state, so get your asses over to a farm sometime this month and stock up.  S...

So, I let my sauerkraut sit just a little too long unattended and it rotted into a pile of brown, yeasty garbage.  It would seem that my strategy of putting the crock somewhere where we couldn’t smell it completely backfired.  Last year, the stench was my daily reminder to give it a li...

Florida: South Beach Wine & Food Festival (Feb. 19-22) Texas: Jalapeño Festival (Feb. 20-21) Minnesota: 30th Annual International Eelpout Festival (Feb. 20-22) Oregon: Newport Seafood And Wine Festival (Feb. 20-22) Illinois: Chicago Restaurant Week (Feb. 20-27) California: Hands-on Artisanal Cockta...

I’ve been trying to figure out how to make this whole shady yard, black thumb, shadow of death thing work for me in a gardening sense.  I feel compelled to plant things in the spring, but then equally compelled to neglect them come mid-summer.  Surely, there’s some kind of activity t...

Measuring up: We’ve all heard the average number of miles that industrial food travels from farm to fork (1500), but is that the best way to weigh the environmental impact of our consumption choices? NY farmer Bob Comis proposes a conceptual shift to “pound-gallons,” a clunky-sound...

You'll be pleased to hear that wine and chocolate are a recurrent them for foodie events this weekend. Enjoy! Montana: Chocolate Festival (Feb. 6-7) Florida: Naples Winter Wine Festival (Feb. 6-8) Florida: Everglades Seafood Festival (Feb. 6-8) North Carolina: Carolina Chocolate Festival (Feb. 6-9) ...

Eating local, even below zero: More than a hundred people gathered in Ann Arbor, Michigan to plan for the growth of the region’s local food movement and feasted on local greens, squash, beans, meat, and other goodies. Organizers hope that the products of the 2009 Local Food Summit will “...

Winter weather has provided us with a never-ending topic of conversation lately: the storms pummeling the upper Midwest, the guesses as to how much those storms might repeat themselves here in northern Ohio, how to arrange our travels in the face of weather advisories, and, eventually, how much snow...