Tips And Techniques For A Fun Time With Grilling And Barbecues

The BBQ season may be coming to a close, and while most people own a grill and use it somewhat regularly, not everyone is a born chef, and grilling is particularly not everyone’s forte. I am sure all of you must have had some good and bad experiences with barbecues; it serves to one of [...]

Save Time Cooking

Does the idea that good food has to take a long time to make keep you from spending time cooking? There are many ways to help speed and efficiency in the kitchen. The arrangement of your kitchen, as well as the tools you use, make all the difference. Don’t give up on trying to expand [...]

French wines are slowly turning green – growth of the organic wine industry

The new Parisian shop Lavinia, which bills itself as Europe’s largest wine and spirits shop, devotes a generous section to French organic wines. But they cannot be found among the hundreds of bottles laid out appealingly in stylish wood and glass racks. The enviable selection is tucked away at the back of the shop, in [...]

Good for Whom? – health benefits of organic food

Forget playing up the environment, data increasingly shows that it’s better to stress a product’s health benefits for humans. When the dairy cows at Horizon Organic’s farms get sick, they are treated with aspirin and massages. The cows’ feed is grown in soil that is carefully cultivated to stay rich and healthy through crop rotation, [...]

From organic and natural to fair trade: foods produced with ethical considerations in mind, such as fair trade products, are on a fast growth track

When consumers think of natural food, their focus may extend beyond organic origin and preparation. Although organic foods continue to be a strong and growing market, the natural food category now contains products that incorporate ethical and sustainability factors, such as equitable trade practices, genetic modification and humane treatment of animals. Baby Boomers, the largest [...]

5 Nutrition-Packed Foods For Your Health

When it comes to nutrition-packed foods, Mother Nature has produced them in so much abundance that it gets difficult to pick one and leave out another in the top 5 list. It is, therefore, only more fair to talk of super food categories rather than individual foods. Here are the top 5 nutrition-packed foods that [...]

How to be Green in the Kitchen

You may ask what being green means. It means being kind to our environment. There are many things you can do in your kitchen to be green, save the environment. You have the ability to do good for your environment, save energy, and eat healthier by changing a few habits in your kitchen. Changing from [...]

Buy Organic on a Budget: Five ways to eat organic and save money too.

If you could, you’d probably eat all organic all the time. You’d fill your cart with organic produce, pasta and pet foods and cram your cupboards with organic coffee and cookies. You know they’re better for you, the environment and local farmers. Problem is, all that tasty goodness comes at a price. Organic fare still [...]

7 Secrets for a Stress-Free Thanksgiving

Before you know it Thanksgiving will be upon us. In just over a week we will sit down once again with our families (biological and/or chosen) and gorge upon a feast until we need to unbutton our jeans and snooze on the couch. Thanksgiving officially launches what people refer to as “The Holiday Season” which [...]