This, this is my culinary Mount Everest. This twenty-layer striation of noodles, ragu, béchamel and cheese, repeated four times and then some took me more than five years to conquer. To be honest, six years ago I didn’t know what it was.
Sure, I had heard of lasagna but I wasn’t terribly fond of it because I [...]

It’s a particularly choppy morning here in the Central Pacific, and everyone aboard Greenpeace’s flagship, Esperanza, is on high alert.
We are here to document, expose, and take action against illegal and unsustainable fishing practices, and only an hour ago, we encountered a Korean longline vessel, Oryong 335, that has refused to let us board their ship and is steaming away [...]

Alex Poltorak prepares a hydroponic food-growing system for the rooftop of “The Plant.” A former meatpacking facility in Chicago, The Plant is being deconstructed and transformed into a net-zero-energy vertical farm.
Its roof is the site of Poltorak’s first gig; his business, Urban Canopy, turns city roofs into farms.
Poltorak wants to shorten the distance food travels “from farm to fork,” he [...]

A year ago, I undertook a month-long experiment in making the “idea” of eating local a daily practice: For one month, I ate only food that was produced within a 10-mile radius of my home on Whidbey Island, Washington.
I allowed myself four “exotics”–foods from afar–because living without them would make the experiment a prison I’d never want to visit again. [...]

When we skip meals, eat extra meals or subvert paradigms — spaghetti breakfasts, pancake suppers — we feel naughty, edgy and criminal. “Three meals a day” resonates like a Bible phrase. But it’s a cultural construct.
People around the world, even in the West, have not always eaten three squares. The three-meals model is a fairly recent convention, which is now [...]