I found this blog entry interesting. Excerpt:
Corn‐ leave unhusked in an open container if you must, but corn really is best the day it’s picked ( Read more... )

Mighty Appetite, a food blog for The Washington Post, has been running a challenge called Eating Down The Fridge. It's a week-long kitchen challenge of abstaining from food shopping, and using up what’s in the fridge, freezer and kitchen cabinets ( Read more... )

[EDIT: Some of these links seem to be having issues. Please tell me if any seem broken.]

So, this is a mashup of two posts I did on my personal blog, which I thought I'd share with the community.

(Also, I celebrate Christmas, but please to be substituting your own winter holiday celebration of choice!) :)

My friend Charlie has been inspiring ( Read more... )

From the New York Times: [an article investigating food waste in the United States] (plus some comparison to the situation in the United Kingdom). Most interesting to me was the article's thoughtful analysis of the consequences of food waste, including the impact on food banks, the problem of increased greenhouse gas emissions, and tensions in ( Read more... )

From the Weather Channel's Forecast Earth site, a list of 10 Things to Recycle That You Never Thought You Could, including foam packing peanuts, sneakers, wine corks, and old videotapes and DVDs.

My favorite is the company that makes toothbrushes and other plastic products out of recycled Stonyfield Farm yogurt containers. Cool!

I've been trying to switch over to using cloth bags and the like in an attempt to reduce my use of plastic bags ( Read more... )

While reading The Independent, a UK newspaper, online this afternoon, I thought I'd see what's making environmental headlines in Britain. I found [this story] particularly interesting - British retailers have given away 1 billion fewer plastic bags in the past year in an effort to become more environmentally responsible. Britons still use 12.4 ( Read more... )

I got to the discussion of margarine, butter, and "low-fat spreads" in Marion Nestle's book last night, and as I read I was reminded of two of Michael Pollan's guidelines for choosing what to eat:

1. Don’t eat anything your great-great-grandmother wouldn’t recognize as food.

2. Avoid even those food products that come bearing health claims.

( Want to know why? Read on )

Hi All again,

sheafrotherdon said that it would make sense for me to link you to this nifty gadget I found online a few days ago

Naturemill: Compost Made EasyI live in a first floor flat - with no balconies - so as you can imagine, I'm not really able to keep a compost heap outside... but this nifty little thing is looking really tempting if I can figure out a ( Read more... )

It's the start of food porn morning on the local public television station. 3 hours of cooking shows ( Read more... )