Afternoon Links of Awesomeness: Friday, Dec. 9, 2011 IFC’s latest show is dedicated to fans of the facial hair: Whisker Wars ! And to celebrate new beginnings, fans can ...

My personal favorite, from 101CookBooks.com, Thai-spiced Pumpkin Soup: My personal favorite, from 101CookBooks.com, Thai-spiced Pumpkin Soup : I've made this ...

Apples Apples Ok, well, Apple (singular) to be more precise. Ever wondered what Steve Jobs' favorite gelato flavor might be? Yeah, us neither. But someone went unde ...

As Valerie Weaver- Zercher writes in "<a href="http://www.sojo.net/index.cfm?action=magazine.article&amp;issue=soj1012&amp;article=simple-living-becomes-sexy" target="_blank" ...

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As genetically modified organisms (GMOs) become more prevalent, so do protests against them. As genetically modified organisms (GMOs) become more prevalent, so do protests against ...

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Jesus is Risen, Alleluia.</p> Jesus is Risen, Alleluia. Most of us spent yesterday praising God and singing about the resurrection. But as I sat down this morning to ...

<p><a href="http://blog.sojo.net/tag/voices-of-immigration/"></a></p> <p>An immigrant woman's testimony, as told to Juan Daniel Espitia, a pastor in Solana Beach, C ...

My mother loved food.</p> My mother loved food. She loved it from the garden to the table. She enjoyed feeding people and all of creation. In the winter she and my fat ...

I refuse to write a blog about how overwhelmed I am by the holiday season. I'm not going to wax eloquent about how the season I loved most as a child has become the source of excruciating stress. ...

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<p><a href="http://www.ryanrodrickbeiler.com"></a>Organic strawberries were $5.99 the other day at our local grocer. $5.99! Their more toxic twins, the non-organic variety, were on ...

One of the everyday things Vasco has enjoyed most since arriving in Chicago from Malawi five weeks ago is being able to go into the kitchen and pour a cool glass of crystal clear water, from the si ...

Hey, want to celebrate your love of your honey *and* your love of God's creation? Hey, want to celebrate your love of your honey *and* your love of God's creation? Eatin ...

This week, a number of "awareness days" fall on the calendar-October 16 was World Food Day, today is International Day for the Eradication of Poverty, October 17-19 are the Millenium Development Gr ...

The Editors More Peas, Please More Peas, Please Simply in Season Children's Cookbook , by Mark B ...

Carey Burkett For quite a few winters now, I have watched a great joy of mine turn slowly into sadness: No one writes letters anymore, a ...

Carey Burkett "No thanks, it makes me sick." "Let’s see, if I leave the milk out of these rolls Sheila can eat them ...

Carey Burkett Someday when I see the sale card announcing "12 Lemons for a Dollar" at the grocery store, I’m going to bu ...

Carey Burkett The loaves and fishes in the Bible story of the "feeding of the five thousand" (a major sandwich-making operation) ...

Carey Burkett Yesterday I learned that a friend will be moving far away. And my thoughts have turned to planning a good-bye party, ...

Carey Burkett Would it be cruel to extol the virtues of chocolate these dark, cold days of January and February, months traditionally rese ...

Carey Burkett What time-honored edible has all of the following: the warmth and comfort of hot bread; the fragrance of a baking cake; the ...

Carey Burkett An article on breakfast about did me in for reading any more words on what's new, healthy, or chic in the food ...

Carey Burkett Life before white sugar probably was pretty good. Life before white sugar probably ...

Carey Burkett When blizzards closed down cities on the East Coast this past winter, the media reported on some strange meals people were ...

Carey Burkett A cook is a chemist. All manner of wizardry and wondrous reactions occur in the oven and the mixing bowl. ...

Carey Burkett Talk about basic ingredients. Look at a package of pasta sometime: flour. You can't get much simpler than that. ...

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Carey Burkett In large part because of my grandmother's North Dakota farm stories, I spent the first 30 years of my life wishing I l ...

Carey Burkett VITAMINS THE OLD-FASHIONED WAY The basil never quite recovered from our good intentions. VITA ...

Carey Burkett I remember the moment when, as a new apprentice in a retreat center's vegetarian kitchen, I spotted the shelf of nuts ...

Carey Burkett It takes love to bake a cake. Cakes cannot be baked indifferently or in a hurry. It takes love ...

Carey Burkett It is fitting that this morning, after paying bills and moaning about another increase in our health insurance premium, I c ...

Carey Burkett Someday I would like to see a cranberry harvest: crimson fruit floating on flooded coastal fields, skimmed off like a school ...

Carey Burkett It’s hot. The yard needs mowing—the grass is so tall I have to wear rubber boots in the morning dew. ...

Carey Burkett What can be eaten for breakfast, lunch, or dinner; is grown in all 50 states; and had a war named after it? The potato of co ...

Carey Burkett Highway food can be fun for a while—eating forbidden french fries at a fast food joint or sipping iced tea in the cool muffl ...

Carey Burkett For salad lovers this is a heady time of year, with early cucumbers, flawless carrots, and more varieties of lettuce and gre ...

Carey Burkett Let’s say you’ve just walked into the grocery store and on the way to pick up some onions you notice a healthy sized mound o ...

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Carey Burkett FEASTING IS JUST half the story. To have "Sunday dinner" implies plainer weekday meals. Holiday banquets include f ...

Carey Burkett MY 1994 NEW YEAR'S resolution - to break loose from serious menu ruts by planning further ahead - has already led to mo ...