A friend of mine once predicted that I would decorate for Christmas once I had kids. She said you can’t help it, you just feel more inclined to honor traditions when you have kids. Now that I have a four-month-old daughter, I feared that glowing nativity scenes were in our future.
I’m pleased to […]

My wonderful hubby E. Ho and I were wandering the Sunset Valley Farmer’s Market when we saw an enormous line winding around the booth at Gundermann Farm. “Wonder what’s going on over there,” said E. Ho.
“Oh my god,” I exclaimed. “Strawberries!” There were tons of them, in little green baskets for $3 […]

Being an Ethicurean and eating for two is more challenging than I thought.
For those who didn’t know, E. Ho and I are expecting. We’re three months along, and this is the first week that I’ve been able to log into this site without wanting to hurl. Seriously, it’s a landmine. Any mention […]

Not only had I not eaten these things before 2006, I didn’t know what in the hell some of them were. I still don’t really know how to pronounce chevre — I usually tag on a vague “ruh” sound at the end. And tomatillos? I thought those were decorative. But I […]

I want everyone to see this squash. In fact, I want everyone to taste this squash.
It’s from Finca Pura Vida, a certified organic farm in Fayetteville, TX which sells goods at the Sunset Valley Farmer’s Market on Saturdays. The little girl’s name is Giselle. When I began taking pictures of this amazing squash, […]

Attention Ethicurean Austinites!
The Austin Sustainable Shopper’s Ball will be happening this Saturday, December 9 from 9am-2pm at the Toney Burger Center, right next to the nationally renowned Sunset Valley Farmer’s Market. With over 60 solar-powered (!) vendors, you could finish your Christmas shopping early this year, while at the same time attending interesting and […]

Daikon radish, that is. In fact, get all your root vegetables on, because in Austin, they are just now filling up the stands at the farmer’s markets. Turnips and beets, radishes, potatoes, yams.
“Not my favorite,” said hubby E.I. Ho, when I came home bearing a bag of turnips and baby radishes from Boggy […]

A trip to Boggy Creek Farm this morning was supposed to be sort of like Dairy Queen’s CSA challenge — where you get your box of food from the farm and have a bunch of friends over and you cook it all and get really, really drunk.
And it was just like that — except I […]

Our half-birthday was Nov. 9, but we forgot. Blog years are like dog years — six months seems like a long time, so we wanted to take stock.
Posts: 413
Traffic: From 475 visitors in May — probably all of them people who knew our real names — to being on track for 8,000+ in November. (We […]

Slate.com: Tyler Cowen critiques Michael Pollan’s book “The Omnivore’s Dilemma” from a macroeconomic perspective and finds it wanting — yet his critique is curiously (and dismally) unsatisfying, too. Cowen says that Pollan’s desire for food-cost transparency is “an unattainable ideal, given the interconnectedness of markets,” and argues that the best solutions to environmental problems are […]

The following is a guest post from Grocery Goddess, budding Ethicurean and friend o’ Omniwhore. She writes about a true omnivore’s dilemma — what to do about a teen eating machine.

Nothing is quite so intimidating as having an Ethicurean in the house when you are unloading the groceries.
You see, Omniwhore recently left her cell […]

I’ve made some discoveries recently.
First of all — I am not as good at pies as Man of La Muncha is. And the photos of the pies aren’t as good as his either. Damn that Man of La Muncha for raising the bar on pies.
Fine, he had one that looked like Mr. Yuck […]

Last Thursday, E. Ho and I took an unflinching look at the ingredients of the food in our cupboard.
Well, we maybe flinched a little. I’m not saying all of the foods pictured here are bad for you.
It’s just impossible to tell if they’re bad for you.

Inspired by the documentary Future of Food, which focuses on […]

Folks in Austin are cordially invited to a tour of the Food You Can Trust farm. Meet Chickenman, Chickenwoman, Elsa the Tour Guide and Baby John, and get some eggs and milk, and some grass-fed beef as well. If you’ve been reading about Ethicurean hero Chickenman and his farm, then you know how lucky we […]

If you watched the Future of Food (see Corn Maven’s review), chances are you found yourself tearing up over the plight of Percy Schmeiser, the independent farmer who was sued by GM corporation goliath, Monsanto.

Not GM as in General Motors, although in my opinion their practices are just as horrifying. Monsanto is GM as in […]