360 Cookware: Better For You, Better For The Earth
Thanksgiving is next week! Apart from the turkey, the stuffing and the pumpkin pie, have you finalized the rest of your menu? Made your shopping list? Do you have enough servingware? What about ...
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Fair Food: The Farmworkers, The Growers, The Advocates
With Thanksgiving around the corner, we have been contemplating gratitude not just for the good food in our lives, but also for the farmworkers whose unseen hard labor brings this nourishment to our t...
Simple Green: Bake Things Together
Between tomorrow and next Friday, we will be attending three separate Thanksgiving celebrations, one office potluck, and two birthday parties. ('Tis the season!) And since we enjoy cooking and never l...
Looking For: Classic (Yet Easy to Maintain) Cloth Napkins
This past year my husband and I switched to using cloth napkins almost exclusively. We use them for everything but the most informal backyard barbecue, and I must say it's very nice to have the feel a...
Stylish Spirits: Bottles You'll Want to Reuse
Some packages are just too pretty to part with. That's how we felt when we saw Integrity Spirits' Lovejoy Vodka bottles. If the name alone doesn't put you in a festive mood, the chic graphic label w...
Interview: Paul Abercrombie - Organic, Shaken and Stirred
Straight Up Cocktails and Spirits
"I'll have mine straight up - and green." Times have changed and the choices keep growing. With all the newly available organic spirits on the market, the eco-conscious drinker now has plenty of s...
Simple Green: Wash Your Produce, Even if It's Organic
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Getting ready to bake that apple pie for Thanksgiving dinner? Make sure the apples are clean! Until today, we washed all of our fruits and veggies as well as we knew how: by running tap water over t...
Sulfites in Wine: The Myths, the Facts, and the Truth
“Contains Sulfites.” Just two little words — yet so frequently misunderstood! Words you see on almost every bottle of wine. What are sulfites? Are they really bad? Do they cause wine headach...
Before & After: An $80 Rental Kitchen Makeover
BEFORE: Particleboard cabinets, dingy backsplash, colorless. My husband and I moved into our current rental apartment one year ago, and while we loved the fact that the kitchen was separate, roomy an...
Fresh and Local: Tempe Farmers Market
Tempe, Arizona
When Daryle Dutton's local food co-op was shut down to make way for high-rise condos, he and his neighbors found themselves having to get in the car and drive 30 minutes just to pick up a tomato for d...
How Far Would You Go?
Greening All, Most, or Part of Your Lifestyle?
Going green means making decisions that might seem silly to others (eliminating dryer sheets? no more plastics?), but are probably very important to you. Otherwise, it seems, everyone would just do ...
Apple Orchard & Pumpkin Patch: Any Farm Visits This Fall?
The fall is perhaps the one time of year we get ourselves out to a farm. Autumn is prime time for farms, what with all the apple-picking, pumpkin patch, and corn maze fun to be had. Did you go and vis...
Window Farms: Hydroponic Edible Gardens for Urban Windows
In order to help urban dwellers grow food inside their apartment all year long, Britta Riley and Rebecca Bray developed Window Farms — vertical, hydroponic, modular, low-energy, high-yield edi...
Localwashing is the New Greenwashing
Utne Reader
When ideas gain speed in the marketplace, marketers take note. So when the natural food movement became popular, we all noticed more "All Natural" stickers popping up on our grocer's shelves. Likewise...
Pumpkins, Persimmons, & Pomegranates (& Costumes!)
Joshua Tree, California
On Saturday mornings, nestled into the foothills of the Mojave desert, the Joshua Tree farmers' market welcomes everyone from free-spirited locals to military base families, park rangers, and touris...
Omnivorism: Still a Dilemma?
Meet Fernando, who will live his entire life on a farm in rural Texas. It's encouraging to see so many people vocally concerned with their food choices. People are turning toward local foods and org...
11 Energy-Saving Cooking Tips
When we're in the kitchen, we're already so pleased with ourselves for not eating out and for using the produce from our CSA that we don't think much about how much energy we're using. But there are w...
Color in the Kitchen! Mini Pedestal Cake Plates
This month has been all about COLOR in the kitchen, in food, and in harvest. Well, to cap it off, we have to show you these jolly little platters, made from refinished old candlesticks!...
Dishwasher-Safe Bamboo Cutting Board
And It's Formaldehyde-Free!
Our kitchen has been "Cured" a couple of times—both with Apartment Therapy and on solo missions. We've pared things down to the true essentials, and that means we have one bamboo cutting board that ...
StillTasty: The Ultimate Shelf Life Guide
Milk, peanut butter, oil, tomatoes, beans – when do they go bad and what can we do with them before they expire? How should they be stored? Can they be frozen or microwaved? Not knowing the answer...
Simple Green: Two Stovetop Energy-Saving Tips
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Growing up, our mother tried desperately to teach us how to cook. Back then, even scrambled eggs were a challenge. Now that we're all grown up, we're finally catching on. (Mom's so proud.) Recently...
How To: Never Waste Food Again
If you live in San Francisco, where throwing out your food scraps is now illegal, you're probably looking for more ways to use every last bit of your produce, etc....
Reinventing Farming
NPR
We know that large-scale farming as it exists today presents all sorts of problems, ranging from the mass-producing scale to soil and resource depletion. Which is why Wes Jackson's work at the Land In...
No More Plastic Wrap: What About Baking?
Wrap dough tightly in plastic wrap. These are familiar instructions to home bakers, and I even include them in my own recipes here on The Kitchn. Though I don't use plastic wrap for many purposes othe...
Irresistible! Mini Pumpkins
Hollywood, California
We've always gone for the bigger, more impressive pumpkins at the Hollywood farmers' market, but this year we're utterly charmed by all the minis on sale throughout the market. Perhaps it's because ...
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