December dinners tends to be hearty and heavy. In a good way. I need chicken and dumplings and sausage and potatoes to keep me warm under turtleneck sweaters and snow boots. Sometimes, though, I need a break from weighty winter food. Enter roasted butternut squash orzo with wilted spinach and dried cranberries. We eat a [...]

Since seeing Food, Inc. and reading The Omnivore’s Dilemma and Animal, Vegetable, Miracle, we’ve become more conscious of the food we eat — especially the meat we eat. We do not support factory farms that follow inhumane practices, which unfortunately are the source of most supermarket meats. And so we buy our meat — often [...]