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Hippie Kitchen Upstaging Her Older Sister

23 December 2009 by Jean Johnson
Isn't that just the way. The first does yeoman service path breaking, and then the second comes along with her flirty name and catchy clothes and skates all the way to the bank. Speaking of the bank, though, both numero uno, Cooking Beyond Measure, and Ms. Hippie Kitchen are both ...

Flash Cooking = Hippie Stir Fry = Fast/Slow Food

18 December 2009 by Jean Johnson
Ah, yes, I remember my own trip to Mexico as a food writer. Here's one of my photos: So Mark Bittman's recent NYT piece on Mexican markets was a nice reminder of my own cruise-arama. Here he's talking about how Mexican women get fresh veggies on the table pronto--but he ...

Hippie Kitchen Appeals to the Upcoming Gen

17 December 2009 by Jean Johnson
Lenore's not two yet, and she's already in the groove. Angela, her mom and next door neighbor, sent these images and says they weren't posed. Rather Lenore loves to page through Hippie Kitchen, pausing particularly at page 159 where Iris (same-same from the Cat in the Cheese blog post here) ...

Eating Animals

4 November 2009 by Jean Johnson
The review of Eating Animals on Alternet calls the author, Jonathan Safran Foer a younger grittier Michael Pollan. Cool. And he'll be at Powell's tonight. 7:30.

The Cereal Bowl

by Jean Johnson
Beans in your morning cereal bowl are cool. A few garbs rolling around with the hazelnuts. Some blackies and a spike of red chile and lime to go with chunks of fresh pears. A pink hummus spread on apples. And now even a nod from the New York Times. Bizarre that ...

Affordable Local Produce

3 November 2009 by Jean Johnson
Once you discover fresh local produce, there's no going back. But the problem for me has always been the spendy price tags at farmers markets. I solved it by growing my own and here's a snippet of this year's harvest. Kitchen gardens aren't everyone's cup of tea, of course. So Bion ...

Minimalist Column/Minimalist Flash Cooking

9 August 2007 by Jean Johnson
I was thrilled to see Mark Bittman's Minimalist column (NYT) take a second run at what he terms ultrafast cooking. He originally thought his speedy ideas would be a hit for hot summer nights, but the 400 hits his blog got told him people are motivated by more than the ...