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January 2, 2015

Nutritional Yeast

by Kate Payne • Photography by Jo Ann Santangelo My relationship with nutritional yeast goes all the way back to the four years I spent

Fruit Trees

by Laura McKissack • Photography by Carole Topalian Many of my favorite childhood memories involve the dewberries gathered around the lake where my cousins and

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One Whole Duck

by Eugenia Bone One summer day I helped my friend Marilee Gilman slaughter and process about 24 fat ducks. Marilee and her husband Charlie have

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Cooking with Citrus

by Elizabeth Winslow • Photography by Thomas Winslow Juicy, bright and bursting with vitality, citrus is Mother Nature’s recompense for weeks of cold, gray winter

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Robert Earl Keen

by Steve Wilson • Photography by Kate LeSueur Robert Earl Keen has a technique for getting a cowboy hat to look just right. “Go in

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Bee Tree Farm

by Jenna Kelly-Landes It’s 6 a.m. and the sleet that fell gently all morning has started spitting horizontally, and now daggers of ice attack the

Food Safe

by Kristi Willis A woman is crying in the dining room of the Blue Ginger restaurant in Boston. Instead of being alarmed, though, Chef Ming

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Oatmeal Redux

by Elif Selvili • Photography by Kate Lesueur Part of oatmeal’s claim to fame is its ability to lower LDL, or “bad” cholesterol. In light

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GB Khalsa

by Jodi Egerton • Photography by Jote Khalsa On a crisp morning, midwife GB Khalsa and I sit together over steaming mugs of chai at

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Mobile Loaves & Fishes

by Megan Giller • Photography by Jo Ann Santangelo In the late ’90s, entrepreneur Alan Graham spent most nights handing out peanut butter and jelly

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Kombucha Makers

by Claire Cella • Photography by Melanie Grizzel In a casual phone conversation with an old friend from upstate New York, I mentioned I was

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Jeremy Barnwell

by Megan Giller • Photography by Alison Narro Some people might call Jeremy Barnwell a “lunch lady,” but the parents at Austin area schools are