Cooking Blog

These Wheat Germ Energy Cookies will help you to start the morning—or continue the day—feeling good and, yes, true to the name, energized.

Quiche! It’s what’s for dinner! Or lunch . . . or breakfast . . . but mostly, brunch.

Rugelach are delicious Jewish pastries that usually have a cream cheese–based dough and can be filled with anything from raspberry jam to cinnamon and sugar or chocolate and nuts.

I believe in the forest, and in the meadow, and in the night in which the corn grows.

–Henry David Thoreau

Recently, I went to a barbecue where I had the most delectable mandarin orange rice. It had a lovely brown rice base that was bursting with colorful, crisp veggies and juicy mandarin orange chunks and was perfectly dressed with a refreshing citrus vinaigrette. When salad is as healthy, hearty, and delicious as this, it’s hard not to love it and even harder to forget it.

When an Almanac colleague and gardener greeted me one day with,"Good morning! I left a bag of pickling cucumbers in your office!", my eyebrows jumped, my jaw dropped, and "Oh, wow—thanks!" came out of my mouth.