Greens Garage: The opposite of “Food, Inc.”

Between this place — those lettuce greens were hands-down the best — and the new farmer’s market on Grandin Road, I think I’m convinced, finally, to go see the movie “Food, INC” — although I’ll admit I was finding it so much easier to remain uninformed.

Kamikaze cooking

I’m trying to create something edible from the food that’s been lingering near the back of my shelves and in my freezer . . . without, in theory, buying more.

The real faces of journalism

Charles “Hap” Fisher is pushing 103. He doesn’t hear well, he’s got a bum hip, and he needs a pacemaker to keep his ticker beating right. And yet every day he still pulls out his calculator, trying to bring new chemistry formulas into being, trying to do good in the world. “People who don’t work [...]

Staycation, with company: Recessionary rules for being a good houseguest

Summertime in a recession. My friend Melissa was bemoaning it just the other day. Many of her extended family members and friends can’t afford to go on vacation, so they’re visiting HER instead. “The first year we lived here  no one came to visit,” she said. “But now we’re spending so much money feeding our [...]

In praise of our friends the photogs

At last weekend’s Pictures of the Year International program, the winner of the Best Photography Book Award said it took him 10 years to publish his book, which documents the fall of the Soviet Union. In the meantime, Brooklyn-based photographer Jason Eskenazi made his living working at the Metropolitan Museum of Art — as a [...]

Not quite Romy and Michelle. . .

 Expectations for my recent class reunion in Urbana, Ohio weren’t high, but driving through the cornfields on the way to my hometown, I was full of nervous excitement, wondering how my two selves might converge: Would people only remember the class partier/clown who was always scrounging rides? Or would they see me as I see [...]

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