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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...

From the Fall Garden: Many Uses for Butternut Squash

As we continue to learn to eat with the seasons, we're discovering more and more uses for various vegetables. Squash have proved to be especially versatile... ...

Hot Tip: Find a Local Ingredient Substitute

Tomorrow's trip to the farmers' market will yield plenty of local poblanos for salsas, soups, and breads. Can't you just taste the heat? This will be in lieu of New Mexico's famous Hatch chiles. Why...

Choosing Green Non-Stick Cookware

Over the weekend, the topic of non-stick cookware came up after an incident with tofu left our stainless steel skillet...well, covered in burnt tofu (our fault, not the skillet's). Not to mention that...

Mark Bittman's Advice on Meat-Eating
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Confession time: Mark Bittman, author and food writer for the NY Times, is our new go-to guy. For Christmas, we received How to Cook Everything, and have literally referenced it every single day since...

Harvest Cooking: What's Inspiring You?

It's Harvest month at The Kitchn, and we've been spotlighting a different local ingredient each week. Last week it was local apples, and the week before that it was local cheese and a look at buying f...

Conscientious Cook: Mindfulness about Waste

Refrigerators are our tombs. I spent the past weekend at Slow Food Nation and returned home with this statement from Carlo Petrini ringing in my head. posted originally from: AT:Kitchen...

Bamboo Cooking Accessories by the Pampered Chef

We are loving our new set of bamboo cooking utensils from the Pampered Chef (they were a gift from Mom). We're loving it so much, we started thinking it might make a nice gift. However, we've neve...

Green Obsession: Lavender

OK, so maybe it's more of a purple-ish obsession? Regardless, lavender is in bloom in Berkeley and we can't get enough of it. It's beautiful, but not in the way other conventional flowers are beaut...

Enviro-Log

Leslie at AT:SF reviewed Java-Logs a while back, and now there's another option in the un-wood-log category. Instead of coffee, this one's made of recycled waxed cardboard....

Fagor Portable Induction Cooktop

We've seen portable induction cooktops before, but never so well-designed. This one from Spanish manufacturer Fagor offers all the advantages of induction: incredible energy efficiency, quick respons...

Blogging The Green Guide: Three Steps to Reducing Kitchen Paper Waste

When we saw the headline of this article in National Geographic's Green Guide, we thought: We know, we know. Stop using paper towels! But, actually, they surprised us. Their first suggestion had noth...