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The grapes used in Big Table Farm's Wirtz Pinot Gris sit on skins for up to 10 days. The result? A full-bodied and luscious wine that's...

I did this interview with food world leader Debra Eschmeyer of FoodCorps back in 2011 for The Faster Times (RIP).  I found it on...

Fresh organic vegetables for sale at Flora Farm When I was in Mexico this past May reporting a story on Todos Santos , I kept hearing...

New York Times columnist Roger Cohen says that organic food is elitist and assumes that the only people who demand healthy,...

I was proud to be a part of Whole Living's beautifully-produced Food Visionaries package, in their penultimate issue. THE VISIONARIES...

How a community activist grew a patch of dirt into something truly worth toasting.

The poster outside Rockwood Voices for Food Justice's Offices, in Gresham, OR New York Times columnist Roger Cohen says that organic...

The roof deck at Hotel Casa Tota Todos Santos, 45-minutes north of Cabo on the Pacific coast of Mexico’s Baja Peninsula, has long been...

In the current issue of Oregon Business Magazine, I write about Duncan Berry, the CEO of Fish People , a new Oregon-based seafood...

Responses to the recent Stanford University organic study have been all over the map. Some commentators, such as Marion Nestle , wrote...

Whenever you start to feel that our country—not to mention our planet—is going to hell in a handbasket (as my great aunt Holly used to...

my friend's son can't contain his excitement at Café Besalu For the past year or so, I've had the pleasure of getting to know Ballard,...

When I moved to Portland two years ago, I was awed by the lush and beautifully-landscaped gardens in my neighborhood of Sunnyside....

You hear a lot of talk in the sustainable food movement these days about how each of us needs to "vote with our fork." The notion is that...

Inextricably bound up with M.F.K. Fisher’s lifelong passion for food was the pleasure she took from sipping and serving a simple house wine, a crisp aperitif or a prickly, delicious glass of Champagne. In “M.F.K. Fisher: Musings on Wine and other Libations” (Sterling Epicure; $19), Fisher’s biographer, Anne Zimmerman, gathers all of the eminent food writer’s essays on drink under one beautifully designed cover. Some of these gems have been plucked from well-known collections,

Economist Tyler Cowen calls himself an “everyday foodie,” and his new book, “An Economist Gets Lunch,” is aimed at people like him. So...

I wrote a short item on Dayna McErlean's Yakuza Garden Cottage for the June 2012 issue of Monocle.

I shouldn't have been surprised by how many fabulous restaurants Mount Holyoke women run—from New York's La Lunchonette to the...