Thanksgiving is the holiday I adore the most. It’s about exercising my culinary muscle while throwing all buckets of restraint down the drain. I was just 12 when I concocted my first Thanksgiving meal for the family, so I’ve had some practice. As I remember, I secured a butterball in a plastic bag, plopped canned beans in a creamy quagmire of mushroom soup topped off with French fried onions, then rehydrated a box of mashed potatoes… my how my culinary times have changed! Continue reading “A Flock of Grace and a Gaggle of Gratitude, Thanksgiving and Abundance”
Month: November 2015
Is GMO Testing in Organic Necessary?
Many of us purchase organic food and textiles to avoid unwanted toxins that may be present from the industrial chemical complex that pervades modern agriculture. Others who are wary of GMO technology purchase organic because GMO’s are prohibited in organic production. Because GMO’s are living reproductive plants that are wont to spread their pollen hither and yon, those modified genes are often cast across furrow and valley. No longer contained in the lab, these mutant genes are difficult to stop. Just how much of our organic supply is contaminated? There is one state organic program bent to find out! Continue reading “Is GMO Testing in Organic Necessary?”
NOSB Fall 2015: A Delicious and Dirty Meeting
Once again, I find myself hunting the illusive meaning of organic regulatory and culinary bliss. I have traveled to Stowe, Vermont at the tail end of the peacock show of autumn foliage. I am not here to walk the sodden paths and observe auburn leaves aflutter. I come here to attend the National Organic Standards Board (NOSB) meeting, held twice a year and open to the public. I come to participate, make public comment, and network with colleagues. Of greater import I show up to listen and learn, to get a read on the health of our organic process and the people who fuel it. I am an avid and eager organic participant. I am eternally hungry. Continue reading “NOSB Fall 2015: A Delicious and Dirty Meeting”