At last, we are making our own salad from the garden again. I take a lazy approach to growing salad greens. As soon as the soil can be worked in the spring I add a little compost and scatter seeds for a variety of greens and lettuces. One narrow bed was devoted to arugula, mizuna, spinach, […]
This week our food appreciation classes traveled to Costa Rica on our virtual world food tour. One of the most peaceful and stable democracies south of the border (Costa Rica has no standing army), it is situated between the Caribbean on the east and Pacific Ocean on the west, an ideal locale for fish lovers. […]
As the bluefin tuna season begins in the Mediterranean, the World Wildlife Fund reports tuna of breeding age–meaning four years old or older–could be completely wiped out in three years if current fishing trends continue. “For years people have been asking when the collapse of this fishery will happen, and now we have the answer,” […]
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