What was a “look, cool: wild yeast-fermented beer!” afterthought to my post on sustainable brewing has met an indignant commenter crowd who found my two-sentence description rightfully vague and careless. [ … ]
Organic Vegetable Farming: Now More Vegan Than Ever
How exactly does one make a vegetable farm less carnivorous than it already is? The practice of veganic – or “stock-free” – farming is beginning to take hold among some [ … ]
Honeybee Rescue! What You Can Do To Help
In keeping with Honey Week here at Eat.Drink.Better, I started looking at the various ways individuals can help combat Colony Collapse Syndrome. One major impediment to the endeavor is that [ … ]
Brazil Raids Illegal Ranches, Gives Cattle To Poor
Brazil’s new environment minister, Carlos Minc is committed to serious punative action when it comes to the estimated 60,000 cows that are raised on illegally deforested land in the region [ … ]
Fear of Famine Drives EU Support of Genetically Modified Crops
The European Union has traditionally been more cautious of genetically-modified (GM) foods than the rest of us. They require more scientific study than other food safety organizations before approving individual [ … ]
Halal: The Original Ethical Meat Eating?
Among the decidedly ungreen luxuries I allow myself is a small collection of magazine subscriptions, one of which is Gourmet – the Conde Nast foodie rag that is, to be [ … ]
How Eco-Friendly Coffee Makes a Difference
Americans drink 400 million cups of coffee each day, which contributes to the coffee bean’s status as the second most globally traded product after petroleum. Now, a recent report from [ … ]
Meatless BBQ: Halloumi Cheese Three Ways
While any red-blooded foodie enjoys a veggie burger now and again, it can get tiresome to keep chowing down on the same prepackaged bulgar patty as meat-eaters feast on a [ … ]
Guilt-Free Beer Guzzling: Top Five Sustainable Suds
Who’s thirsty? Between the barbecues, national holidays and beach vacations, cold beers become a necessity in many households over the summer months. As we pay more attention to the way [ … ]
Cooking With Sea Asparagus
I went to an unfamiliar greenmarket today and had the pleasure of meeting a whole new group of farmers. One vendor was not a farmer at all, but a forager. [ … ]
Chocolate-Goji Vegan Ice Cream Recipe
Following my goji berry coup in Chinatown last week, I found myself with an embarrassment of riches. What to do with all of these berries? Where before I meted out [ … ]
Investors Are Buying Your Dinner, But How Will They Trade It?
Most mainstream business reporting on the agricultural sector has recently focused on the socio-economic impact of rice shortages in southeast Asia or the global price spikes throughout the food chain. [ … ]
Shopping In Toronto’s Chinatown
Despite a mild insecurity with shopping in grocery stores where the latin alphabet graces few labels, I was overcome with a desire to shop in Chinatown today upon seeing the [ … ]