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We know there is a deep reservoir of food wisdom out there, or else humans would not have survived to the extent we have. Much of this food wisdom is ...more

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Simply by starting to cook again, you declare your independence from the culture of fast food. As soon as you cook, you start thinking about ingredien...more

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It's brutal out there. A bear will eat a lactating ewe alive, starting with her udders. as a rule, animals in the wild don't get good deaths surrounde...more

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Before I started writing about food, my focus was really on the human relationship to plants. Not only do plants nourish us bodily - they nourish us p...more

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High-quality food is better for your health.

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Those of us who care about food and where it comes from will miss both Obama and Michelle. Even though Obama failed to do many things he indicated he ...more

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We moderns are great compartmentalizers, perhaps never more so than when hungry.

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One problem with the division of labor in our complex economy is how it obscures the lines of connection, and therefore of responsibility, between our...more

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For is there any practice less selfish, any labor less alienated, any time less wasted, than preparing something delicious and nourishing for people y...more

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Cooking is all about connection, I've learned, between us and other species, other times, other cultures (human and microbial both), but, most importa...more

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Most of what presents itself to us in the marketplace as a product is in truth a web of relationships, between people, yes, but also between ourselves...more

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Great cooking is all about the three 'p's: patience, presence, and practice.

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The kernels of wheat entered the aperture virtually in single file, as if passing between a thumb and an index finger. To mill any faster risked overh...more

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The quest for an ever-whiter shade of bread, which goes all the way back to the Greeks and Romans, is a parable about the folly of human ingenuity -- ...more

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In ancient Greece, the word for "cook," "butcher," and "priest" was the same -- mageiros -- and the word shares an etymological root with "magic.