Used for a main course or appetizer, making this pate will give you an introduction to cooking raw and living foods. Given that enzymes in fresh food are killed by cooking (116F), the idea of …

Melissa Breyer, one of my co-authors on True Food, introduced us to white whole-wheat flour. By using this flour she notes that one can have wholesome nutrition without the heaviness of the typical “whole wheat” …

Biocides such as fungicides, are included in paint as a preservative and to kill mold, and in wood stains to kill insects.
Milk paint and whitewash have a high alkaline content which makes them naturally …

Distracted by my life for four or five days in mid-January, I neglected to feed the birds and was horrified at how long it took for them to come back after I started up again. …

You can’t make this stuff up: I was on a plane flying home to upstate New York from Los Angeles, and a nice Australian man sat down next to me who happened to be …

This recipe from Huelva in Andlusia makes a hearty soup with lots of flavor, and no meat–hence the name “fasting” soup. Yet it is a substantial soup, very nicely spiced with paprika, saffron, and black …

Dear Annie,
It seems I have grain moths (meal moths). I found them the day I decided to have oat meal. No thanks. I threw it out, but still see one or two moths flying …

The inside of flower vases can turn into a slimy, cruddy, calcified mess pretty quickly. As the water evaporates the minerals are left on the side of the vase, along with residue from the stems. …

My mother was an excellent housekeeper, but wow did she get it wrong about pillows. We never washed them, and had the same pillow for years and years. Years!
I think that the reason for …

Give rose quartz as a special Valentine’s gift to loved ones. Rose quartz is known as the heart chakra stone, and it is especially nice to give a rose quartz stone that has been …