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While there is nothing like real experience, Laura Child’s book “The Joy of Keeping Farm Animals” provides a very thorough description of what you can expect when setting up a farm for the purpose of raising your own animals for meat, eggs and dairy. It may seem romantic at first but, like all people and pets, farm animals have daily needs that must be attended to or they could get sick or die. While reading Child’s book I learned just how much work farm animals can be.

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Living in a fast paced, instant-gratification city such as New York, I find it necessary to slow down from time to time for a moment of solitude. Too often, I find myself looking to the future and using technology as my streamline to convenience. And yet, last night, on the eve of St. Patrick’s Day, I found myself in my own kitchen making Irish Soda bread.

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When I buy chocolate, I’m supporting a whole system of politics and people behind that chocolate. I want part of the pleasure I derive from eating chocolate to be the knowledge that I’m not adding to someone else’s abuse. Buying Fair Trade and Rainforest Alliance Certified chocolates is an easy way to ensure that your purchasing power supports chocolate growers with sound human rights policies. From now on it will be Green & Black’s Milk Chocolate for me.

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In spring, when early produce is available at Baltimore’s 32nd Street/Waverly Farmers Market, I buy enough greens, turnips, onions, and garlic to make my favorite soups, including matzo ball soup. At grocery stores, Passover foods (and aisles of Easter peeps and chocolate bunnies) are featured, so I like to stock up on Matzo Ball Mix [...]

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With each passing day, dinner menus are becoming increasingly weird in my home.  Since the Jewish holiday of Purim concluded the night of March 10, the countdown to the holiday of Passover began—a holiday which forbids all leavened food (“chametz” in Hebrew) not only from being eaten but even owned. I have therefore begun the [...]

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