Because while the food system is being hit hard by the climate crisis, it also plays a sizable role in causing of the problem, accounting for one third of the world’s emissions. This story was produced in partnership with Civil Eats. If we had been told, a decade ago, that so many climate-fueled disasters would…
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We Are What We Eat — and We Must Make Food Decisions With the Climate Crisis in Mind
The Call of the Coals: Open Fire Cooking with Jason Michael Thomas
Unplug, get outdoors, and cook real food over a real fire this summer. I was first exposed to open-fire cooking at an early age. My father’s family waterskied and fished a number of Ohio’s lakes. I remember many fun-filled outings on Grandpa’s speedboat catching sunfish and bluegill from the dock at Indian Lake when I…
By Molly Watson
The Lure of an Amish Tomato
Old-fashioned growing techniques and our love affair with simplicity make Amish produce a score. “My wife loves this,” says Charlie. He and his wife drive up from Huntsville, Alabama a couple times each year to refill their stock of hand-shelled peas. “There is nothing like those peas,” he says, just as his wife runs over…
Lovage Love
It’s easy to love this lesser-known, celery-like herb. I fell in love with lovage long before I ever tasted it. The day my husband’s elderly Uncle Bernie painted a romantic vision of how this herb of his yesteryear could elevate one’s cooking to the next level, I knew I must have it. Surely, I would…
Pinching Back at Green Crabs
Fighting invasive species in Southeastern Massachusetts One of the most intriguing aspects of life along the shoreline is the feeling of perpetual mystery, the suspicion that for every perceptible phenomenon along the wrackline or among the tidepools, a multitude of unknown events transpires. Even a dry-shod lubber poking about in that border zone between land…
By Monty Moran
Living Sustainably: To Honor Ourselves is to Honor our Planet
How can we take decisive action towards living sustainably with so many competing points of view? We’re told climate change is man-made, but then hear it’s a natural phenomenon. We hear that we need to regulate our companies, but also that doing so limits job growth and hurts our economy. We hear calls to “kill…