Magical Eating

Two interesting posts on growing potatoes in pots, ideal for urban gardening:

Growing potatoes for Manresa, a simply stunning restaurant: Planting Potatoes in Pots
Urban homesteading: Patio potato farming

I think we’re going to give it a shot. Ambar says my ancestors want me to grow potatoes and who’s going to argue with the ancestors?

I buy most of my seafood from local fishermen and a local shellfish farm. I’ve tried to buy domestic shrimp when possible (due to an allergy to a common preservative in imported shrimp), but this article shows how challenging that is:
Today, if you live more than a hundred miles from the Gulf Coast, the shrimp [...]

I was reading an article from Mother Earth News about cutting household food bills in half.   This may not be new information for you but I thought I would pass it along in case it helped with those magical, sustainable kitchens.
To read the article you can click on the linked text above.  [...]

I’ve been known to use Splenda (an artificial sweetener) in cooking for diabetic friends and those following an Atkins-like diet. Now, research done by a high school student in the 2009 Intel Science Talent Search shows that Splenda isn’t broken down by most water treatment methods and thus raises questions of whether this could accumulate [...]

I am dreaming of spring…no, lusting for spring and the food magic of gardening.
It may seem a bit early to be doing so since I live in well-wintered Chicago but I am a child of more southernly climes and my seasonal rhythms are forever set by Tennessee.  There, where the rolling hills dance with the [...]

The more I read about the everyday foods I find in the grocery store, the more I’m surprised. Boston.com interviews Alissa Hamilton, author of Squeezed, and it turns out even simple “not from concentrate” orange juice is anything but:
In the process of pasteurizing, juice is heated and stripped of oxygen, a process called deaeration, [...]