(Cross-posted from Walbert’s Compendium.) A former “food industry insider” named Bruce Bradley has started a blog to tell the world about all the terrible things the food industry does. In his most recent post, he lists some of the disgusting things that industry passes off as natural products. “Unfortunately,” he writes, “big food companies have [...]

This week on my eponymous site, I posted this essay about beating eggs and the difference a little work makes in cooking.

Occasionally I see arguments to the effect that eating red meat is dangerously damaging to the environment — red meat specifically, as compared to poultry. For example, that it takes 2,500 gallons of water to produce a pound of beef, but only 800 gallons to produce a pound of chicken. (“Only” is relative here.) Or [...]

It has for several years been a source of mild frustration to me that I cannot find a reliable recipe for preserves. I have all kinds of recipes for chutneys and conserves and marmalades, and for jams with honey and low-sugar jellies and for special preserves made from this or that sort of (where I [...]

I made these beans for a picnic and got raves all out of proportion, I thought, to the difficulty of making them or the cleverness of the recipe. They’re your basic beans intended to be served with barbecue and the receipe would be a good submission to a church fundraiser cookbook since they use a [...]