A great article by Mark Bittman on the dilemma of eating seafood in these sustainability-minded times. (New York Times)Norman Brinker, the chain-restaurant magnate whose portfolio included Chili's, Bennigan's and many, many others, has died. (AP)The had of Campbell's Soup thinks the U.S. should adopt Canada's food-safety approach. (Bloomberg)
Alissa NelsonA few years ago, local chefs started hopping on the sunchoke bandwagon. Suddenly you had sunchoke purées and soups and risottos popping up like mushrooms after a week of fall rain. This happened to correspond to my first farm-share experience. As it turns out, Biver Farms is quite the purveyor of sunchokes. Every week for about a month, I would find myself with about two pounds of the little guys. I got sunchoke fatigue, to be honest.But like all things there is a season (turn,
Jérôme Sautret, Wikimedia CommonsSweet potatoes: Try not to eat them all before you're done.As a compulsive cooking overachiever, I have a tendency to see pot lucks as a challenge: How can I make something totally novel and awesome...yet avoid shopping? It's like Iron Chef: College Ingenuity.So when I was invited to a pot luck by a school friend with whom I'd never hung out off-campus, the stakes were raised. I don't want to be the person who brings a bag of tortilla chips -- I mean, reall
