food
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The omnivore's delight: One day, four meals, and 53 species
If variety is the spice of life, we Homo sapiens are the spiciest of species. I calculated that in just 24 hours, I consumed 53 species spanning four biological kingdoms and five continents. Here's why our diet biodiversity matters.
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Ask Umbra on healthy soil for urban and suburban farmers and gardeners
A reader wants to know if urban dirt is safe for growing food. Is there lead in that urban farm salad? Umbra investigates and gives some savvy tips.
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War-era food posters: Wacky, well-meaning, and still relevant [SLIDESHOW]
Skinless frankfurters, laying-hen lessons, fat recycling -- the Obama administration could take a few tips from propagandizing presidencies past.
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Posters from the past that can guide us in the future [SLIDESHOW]
All of the things that greens talk about were a necessity 70 years ago during World War II. Where today we see websites, then they did posters.
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Urbivore’s Dilemma, Week 11: Cast iron and pot luck
This week's Urbivore's Dilemma: Hosting the biggest dinner party ever in my tiny Brooklyn apartment, and getting sentimental about heirloom cast iron skillets.
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What U.S. citydwellers really spend on food and drink
Five average Detroit households could subsist on one profligate Austinite's food budget. Check out an infographic showing which cities spend the most and least on food.
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Fair fare: Fun on a stick [SLIDESHOW]
It's county fair season, and as farmers compete for handsomest Holstein, vendors are vying to impale the most outrageous items on a stick and fry them.
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Urbivore’s Dilemma, Week 10: the veggies of summer
Making pesto for the first time, learning how to pickle, discovering panzanella, and improved self-esteem. All part of the territory for this CSA shareholder in week 10 of a take-out eater's transformation into Community Supported Agriculture fiend.
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Composting 101 for citydwellers
If you're going to all the trouble to eat locally grown, organic vegetables, it's a shame to truck their remains away to landfill prison when you could be feeding them back to the earth. So why aren't you composting yet?