I am going to definitely be making this Pumpkin-Chocolate Bread Pudding! The New York Times has a great collection of recipes and IMAGES to get your mind and mouth ready for the seasonal delights to come! Even if you don’t plan on having a vegetarian Thanksgiving, these recipes can add some zing to the traditional [...]

The New York Times had a great article about “crop mobbers” Field Report: Plow Shares By: Christine Muhlke “Who brought their own wheelbarrow?” Rob Jones asked the group of 20-somethings gathered on a muddy North Carolina farm on a chilly January Sunday. Hands shot up and wheelbarrows were pulled from pickups sporting Led Zeppelin and [...]

This is a great article from the New York Times by Oliver Schwaner-Albright that describes the self-directed movement evolving in the food industry: To get the slightly battered convection oven for their new Brooklyn chocolate factory, Rick and Michael Mast traded 250 chocolate bars. The chocolate is as good as legal tender for Andrew Tarlow [...]

At The Stove, a Dash of Science, a Pinch of Folklore…. Kenneth Chang for NYtimes My mother, when she still cooked, always added a dash of sugar to the vegetables she stir-fried. She said it preserved the bright green of the greens. I always thought that was hooey. Shirley O. Corriher, a biochemist turned folksy [...]