The first week of May in Colorado is a permission slip of sorts to begin thinking seriously about gardening. Though it's not usually safe to plant anything as tender as a tomato plant before Mother's Day, this year is spring barged in early and barred the door to any late snow, so this weekend the planting begins. Seed packets sit on my kitchen counter, full of summer's promise, waiting for black soil and a fresh drink of water.

To be honest, I wasn’t too sure about this Harmony Valley product when I got it. Meat analog products and even frozen vegetarian burgers have a certain queasiness factor that can be hard to overcome. And in the bowl, well, it looked a lot like other meat-analog products, pardon the...

If you’ve been watching the new Pan Am television show, you’ve seen the glamour, great uniforms and destinations like Paris, London and Berlin; the intrigue of the CIA using Pan Am as partner in espionage (yes it happened) and even the liberties that some rude passengers took with crew...

This time of year the Campagna region in Italy is laden with tomatoes. The rich red volcanic soil from Vesuvius is the perfect host for sweet vines that line the road from Gaeta to Naples. We know them stateside at San Marzano in a can. When I lived in Gaeta, every August I so wanted to...

There is no greater voice in this country than that of mothers. It’s time we got loud about what is in our food. Last year, in her cheerful but don’t mess with me way, CBS anchor Katie Couric explained the issue pretty well on national news, here is the clip, and she testified for...