Photography by Jaime Fritsch It’s a question faced in just about every Jewish home come Hanukkah-time: how do we do latkes this year? Of all the things we could possibly make it ends up being latkes every year. It’s as if we always choose to color with the same few crayons in … [Read more...]
ALL FORKED UP PODCAST: Love and Death – Food Style (S1E10)
Mercy and Michael engage in a surprisingly respectful discussion with photographer and activist Jaime Fritsch and the Specialty Produce Network’s own Vegan Danielle about the importance (or lack thereof) of animal products in our diets and the comparative effect (or lack thereof) … [Read more...]
“RECIPE:” A Guide to Malva Restaurant’s Terrific Take on a “Garden Salad”
When is a recipe not a “recipe?” Perhaps when a dish is not a “dish.” When it may read the same on the menu, and it may actually be the same, though the ingredients as well as the presentation and even the preparation may be different. So it is with Chef Roberto Alcocer’s … [Read more...]
NEWS: Find out why Soil Matters — to our food, our planet and climate change — on February 2, 2016
It is hard to have good food without good soil. Most of us know that. Most of us, however, don't know that healthy soil stores carbon. Indeed, an acre of healthy soil stores 125 to 450 tons of carbon (which translates to 450 to 2,750 tons of carbon dioxide. Unhealthy soil, on … [Read more...]