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 the grill?!” Think of the grill as an outdoor...
read moreThey’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 transportation and eschewing paper, including toilet...
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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 was reminded of the Seinfeld episode in which Kramer decided to...
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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 of the inedible parts of the artichoke leaves on all the plates, except...
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