2011 in review

The WordPress.com stats helper monkeys prepared a 2011 annual report for this blog. Here’s an excerpt: The concert hall at the Syndey Opera House holds 2,700 people. This blog was viewed about 24,000 times in 2011. If it were a concert at Sydney Opera House, it would take about 9 sold-out performances for that many [...]

Happy Year of the Rabbit!

…which means our own little Rabbit is turning 12 this year – YIKES!

Happy New Year!

Haven’t had time to breathe, much less do much cooking, since returning from vacation! Back next week with a new recipe, but here’s a fun chart to help you keep your New Year’s Resolution to shop for real food at the grocery store: How Can You Tell If They’re Real?  

Chef’s Vacation!

See you in 2 weeks!

Thanks for the link!

Tangstein’s Blog: Healthy Chinese Home Cooking has been listed as one of the Guide to Culinary Schools‘ “Best Asian Cooking Blogs!”

Gone fishin’!

Back next week with more home cookin’ and issues on the food front.

New from Let’s Move

Michelle Obama’s Let’s Move campaign is going strong with a new initiative to obliterate obesity within one generation. I was struck by 2 recent posts on the Let’s Move website, perhaps not for the right reasons: The May 14th post about Alice Deal Middle School in DC does not really say much new - there are manu [...]

Food in the News and on the ‘Net

Did you know that Michigan is second only to California in terms of agricultural diversity? Learn more about the opportunity for agriculture to save Michigan’s economy in Eating in Place, a new documentary that explores Michigan’s local food economy. And to add to the reading list: Animal Factory by journalist David Kirby, recently interviewed in TIME. GE crops, [...]

Garden update: sprouts & compost

The seeds planted a few weeks ago are happily sprouting under the light frames in our basement – in addition to the 2 flats of lettuce due to return to Growing Hope, I’ve planted a mass of herbs – not only for using in cooking, but to line the edges of my garden to give [...]

Food in the news

While we were all busy voting on Tuesday, chefs at Windsor Castle were making culinary history – at a feast for the Celebration of Faiths and the Environment, the presence of 9 different faiths made menu planning a bit difficult, so the castle kitchen went vegan for a day! I haven’t seen any reviews of [...]