FOODS WE LOVE: Caesar Salad
For most of the 20th century, through the 1970s, iceberg was the most popular variety of lettuce in the United States accounted for 95% of the lettuce grown in this country. Romaine became popular in the U.S. thanks to the increasing taste for the Caesar salad. More than 16,000 acres of...
Dyeing Easter Eggs Naturally
When I was little, there was one way that my family dyed eggs: with a kit from the grocery store. It was lots of fun, but depended on chemicals and unnatural coloring. But we certainly didn’t mind as we fished Technicolor eggs out of vinegar baths. My daughter is now old enough to dye...
Let's Start to Recognize This: We are All Interconnected.
We've all seen the news: droughts in the south, fires ravaging our forests in the west, hurricanes on the east coast. North America has been affected by significantly more weather-related extreme events in recent decades, especially in the year 2012, than many other parts of the globe. A...
