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The Lifestyle Of Simplicity In Food And Human Nature – Spring Chickens It is mid-late spring in Sonoma County, which makes for a perfect time to welcome to your  backyard some new feathered friends. Chickens are delightful and entertaining animals. Not only do they produce eggs, but are also good…

Spinning Gold from Dross Over the few years I’ve been a member of the Book Group of Slow Food Russian River I’ve often found much to criticize in the books we’ve read.  But I’ve always enjoyed the discussions of those books, even when we’re spinning gold from dross. The book…

Beyond the Bay Area’s Best 100 Restaurants: Take a Farmer Out for Dinner Where to eat? What to eat? And when to eat? Questions about food and eating proliferate endlessly. Each day brings new challenges, new desires and perhaps even new fears in an era of food insecurity.  To help...

I call them “beans” and mean Limas, Favas, Blacks, Pintos, Chickpeas, Lentils and more. They’re also known as “pulses” perhaps because of their concentrated power. Whatever name we use, they’re protein-rich and they have long been cultivated and enjoyed from Asia and Africa to Europe and the Americas. In a...

My week often starts with an email from Rachel Kohn Obut, the mainstay at Flatbed Farm on Highway 12 in Glen Ellen. Just a few days ago, she wrote, “This week at the Farm Stand, we have Cilantro, Bok Choy, Fava Beans, French Breakfast Radishes, Rainbow Chard, Red Russian Kale,...

A table, a chair, a bowl of fruit and a violin; what else does a man need to be happy? ~Albert Einstein We live in a world of convenience, especially where our food is concerned. We run to the store to get our “fresh” fruits and vegetables. Maybe we take...

The Hindu guru and mystic, Neem Karoli Baba, was acclaimed for five words that he passed on to his followers and that they in turn added to posters and sermons that traveled around the world. Baba’s “sticky message,” as one might call it, was “Love People and Feed Them.” Food...

Chocolate has a way of enticing you. Eating it makes you feel good. It’s smooth texture upon your tongue taking you to another place, even for just a minute. Every. Single. Time. While I’m not big on sweets, I do like to enjoy quality organic dark chocolate every now and…

The Lifestyle of Simplicity in Food and Human Nature – Looking back at an El Niño Winter The give and take of El Niño for Sonoma County Farms Rain has come in torrents, transforming fields into small lakes. The cars that drive down the mirrored streets leave fountains in their…