In these budget minded days, beans are a super food which make a great substitute for meat.   Rancho Gordo Heirloom beans from Napa Valley are the best you’ll ever taste.  They have a huge variety of dried beans, from classic black turtle beans to beautiful Christmas lima beans.  Their web site has recipes, instructions [...]

Chef Bryant Terry’s new cookbook, “Vegan Soul Kitchen: Fresh, Healthy and Creative African American Cuisine” has just been released and promises to be a must have for health conscious cooks.  He describes himself as an “eco chef” and hangs out with Alice Waters.  There’s an incredible range of dishes from Succotash Soup to Jamaican Veggie [...]

What a great game Space Invaders was.  Satisfy your nostalgia with these great ice cubes by Fred, new in their spring catalog.  Dishwasher safe, $8.99 .  Order from PopDeluxe

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Donal from Ireland, author of The Good Mood Food Blog, shows us a great new twist on the old BLT with his Bacon, Avocado and Sun Dried Tomato Sandwich.

Never order a wine that is listed second from the bottom on the menu.  Try not to order wine by the glass or Chardonnay. These are some of the suggestions from Dottie and John, the great wine writers over at the Wall Street Journal.  They have put together a must-read list of “Ten Ways [...]

Stephen Colbert interviews The Minimalist, Mark Bittman, about his new book, “Food Matters”.

Ever have your lunch or a baggie of snacks snatched from the office refrigerator?  That’s a thing of the past with these anti-theft lunchbags.  No one will ever covet your goodies again!   Reusable sandwich bags are recyclable  LDPE.  $10 for 25 bags.  From the.

Most people know that bottles of spices in your pantry don’t last forever.  Jars of herbs lose their strength even faster.  Yet we still find it hard to throw away that half used jar of something, even though we know we bought it years ago.  Enter tsp Spices - finally, a logical way to buy [...]

The long awaited memoir from Molly Wizenberg, the author of the blog “Orangette”,  is finally here.   In “A Homemade Life”, Molly takes us through the journey of her life from the death of her father to her journey to Paris to her marriage to a young man who started off as a fan of [...]

Alice Waters, creator of Chez Panisse and The Edible Schoolyard Project, was the pioneer of cooking with local ingredients decades ago.  In this interview with Spiegel Online International, she talks about the importance of kids learning how to eat real food and why she believes eating locally is possible wherever you live.