As the mass market of big chain stores and fast food moves from a state of appreciated convenience to (i think correctly) distrust, dismay and disgust, individuals within society find themselves looking for other means of nourishment. Whether the be...

I love to cook for my housemates. And they love to cook for me. It's pretty awesome. I usually do Thai, Mexican, Italian, or random stir-fries. Sometimes I just make stuff up. To get started, I took a look in my spice cabinet: I had used every spi...

Mystery Veg. We get a box of organic fruit and veg delivered to us every week, you don't get to choose what's in the box and this week we got a bizarre hand shaped thing with green sprouty bits. It looked a bit like a leek only round. I'd never se...

Unlikely? Perhaps not in the Bay Area. But I haven't yet mastered the deceptively simple lentil, and tonight I set myself to the stove meaning to fill my belly. Luckily for me, my cabinet stores plenty of the little green protein monsters, best subst...

LP: Peter and I had discussed several ideas about what to cook with this spice. It's a lot like ginger, but has a fairly distinct aroma and a little bit more bite than normal dried ginger. Then, when trying to decide what to cook for a vegetable w...