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By Paige Smith Orloff
Be Thankful for Food, Not Twinkies!
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November 20, 2012: Junk food junkies are saying "hallelujah!" that Hostess might survive, but let’s embrace better treats instead. For example: this homemade snack cake (made with actual food!)
Organic Food Under Fire (Again)
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September 6, 2012: A New York Times story says organic food is no better than Big Ag's grub? Not so fast.
A Birthday Au Gratin for Julia Child
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August 15, 2012: Today would have been Julia Child’s 100th birthday. Like so many other Americans, I have Julia to thank for my interest in food and cooking. She (along with the writers and editors of the much-lamented Gourmet magazine)... read more >
Got Garlic? I Do (and Lots of It)
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August 2, 2012: For the first time last fall, I planted garlic. And last week, for the first time, I harvested what could be a year’s supply of a crop I grew myself.I’m hardly a homesteader and am accepting of the limitations to my self... read more >
A Meaty Concern: It’s Not the Drugs but the Superbugs
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July 26, 2012: I stopped by a local farm earlier this week to pick up my chicken subscription. You read that right. For the last three years, I’ve pre-purchased a monthly supply of meat from a farmer friend’s CSA (community supported... read more >
Everything's Peachy (and Easy as Pie), Thanks to Farmers
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July 18, 2012: Thank goodness for farmers. If it weren’t for farmers, I’d be reduced to eating the food I can grow myself. And this hot, dry summer has not provided as much of that as I'd like. My garden -- though overheated and... read more >
Getting Our Pigs Off Drugs
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June 29, 2012: In an editorial entitled "Pig Out" this week, the prestigious science journal Nature called for an end to the overuse of antibiotics in the production of livestock. The editorial says the ever-increasing problem of multi-... read more >
Things Are Dry All Over: Ten Tips for Tolerating Drought in Your Garden
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June 21, 2012: Breaking news from the Northeast: It's hot this week! But even if you and your garden aren't sweltering through this early summer heat wave, drought conditions across the country are defining (and limiting) this year’s... read more >
Learn to Love (and Eat) Those Hated Weeds
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June 19, 2012: No matter how much you mulch, pull, prep, and tend, the weeds will come to your garden, your yard, even your pots and containers. What if, instead of fighting the invasion, you could learn to embrace and even relish it?That’... read more >
Get the Lead Out (of Your Garden)
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May 11, 2012: Lead, cadmium, phthalates, and other nasty chemicals may be lurking in your garden. But they might not have arrived there through fertilizers, pesticides, and pollution. Your own gardening tools could be the culprit.A recent... read more >
Everything Tastes Better Homemade
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May 4, 2012: This garden season, I'm planning to introduce you to new cookbooks (and their authors) that embrace eating homegrown foods.To kick things off, meet Alana Chernila, author of the new cookbook The Homemade Pantry. Alana is a... read more >
Burger King to Pigs: Have It Your Way?
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April 27, 2012: The Home of the Whopper is going cage-free (at least when it comes to bacon and eggs). The Los Angeles Times and NPR gave Burger King shout-outs yesterday for promising to phase out all pork produced from animals housed in... read more >
Paige Smith Orloff
In 2007, Paige Smith Orloff moved to a rural hamlet in upstate New York after living for 16 years in Los Angeles. A former television and film producer and executive, she now writes for regional and national publications about food,... More
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