If you’re only grilling hot dogs and hamburgers this summer, you’re missing out on a lot more food that can be cooked outside. Like what? Like cranberry-apple cake and peach crisp, both of which I’ve done on the grill and which prompted my guests to exclaim “You cooked that on …
They’re at it again! In the first installment of what one might call its “back to nature” series, the NY Times wrote about a couple in New York who were on a yearlong quest to live with almost no carbon footprint by eating only locally grown food, using no carbon-fueled …
A few months ago, the Home section of the New York Times ran a story about “a small segment of the green movement” who have “come to regard the refrigerator as an unacceptable drain on energy, and is choosing to live without it.” When I first saw this story I …
Some years ago, my wife and I had a few couples over for dinner. The first course was an artichoke half that had been cooked a la greque (in a seasoned bouillon). As Mary and I were returning the appetizer dishes to the kitchen, we noticed that there were piles …