By Carol Yelverton I love the smooth, velvety texture of cheese sauce as it mingles with pasta. So, while most homemade mac & cheese recipes call for baking, my version of this great, feel-good classic takes things in another direction. Most of the cooking happens over the stove, letting the sauce and macaroni meld...
by Carol Yelverton Despite slashed food budgets, Fair Trade products are flying off the shelves. New figures show the third party importers - committed to promoting organic products and equitable working conditions world wide – are not only maintaining a loyal consumer base, they’re growing new customers everyday. Consumers are choosing to live out...
by Carol Yelverton I just had a craving for it. When I was little, my grandfather would make curried shrimp. My sister and I were his sous chefs. He was a doctor and it was an un-implied obvious that we were assisting in a serious procedure. He would pull out his well-worn Rector Cookbook...
Call it back-to-basics hunkering down, or even post-recession recreation. Whatever the reason, more and more people are making their own beer and wine. Tesco Real Food says sales of their kits are up 50% this year. Home brew specialist Wayne Byron says, “We have seen a boom in ‘foodies’ as it has become fashionable...
By Alyssa Christianson We are constantly being bombarded by “alternatives.” There’s alternative lifestyles, alternative fuels, alternative rock…but perhaps one of the most frequently discussed is alternative sweeteners. In fact, according to a Freedonia report, since 2004 the alternative sweetener market has grown by at least 8% each year, making it the top grower in...
By Alyssa Christianson With snow on the ground in 49 of the 50 states, the country is deep in the throes of a blustery winter. Here in Massachusetts the ground has been covered by a white snow for several weeks now, with no signs of let up. Yes…pure, sterile, and sometimes suffocatingly white –...
