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A week of home cooking

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Taming raw ingredients, Part I: Four tips for quick, flavorful prep
Taming raw ingredients Part II: Roasted tomatoes and a (pastured) chicken in every pot
Recipe time! Quinoa pilaf with butternut squash and gingered currants

Huffington Post readers like to consume progressive, left-leaning news. Now the publication has challenged readers to live those politics–if [...]

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(This is cross-posted from my Examiner.com site. But in this one, photo credit goes to moi.)

On Tuesday, sixth grader Tammy Nguyen brought down the White House with her thoughts on produce. Leading up to a much-anticipated announcement in the State Dining Room, Nguyen described how she helped grow a rainbow of vegetables in a kitchen [...]

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One afternoon in late December, Danny Abruzzese, the executive chef of Asilomar Conference Grounds charged with preparing glatt kosher food for the 2009 Hazon Food Conference, ushered me into a side dining room to talk. On the way, he pointed one thick hand toward a slim man in a hat and tzitzit, ritual fringes. “This [...]

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Can Judaism save the planet?

Readers, yesterday The Washington Post’s On Faith blog published a piece of mine inspired by the Hazon Food Conference. Entitled “Can Judaism save the planet?”, it presents one perspective that answers the question with a resounding “Yes!”
Many thanks to my “free range” writers group at Hopkins for encouragement with submissions, and to my excellent editor [...]

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