There’s a new food blogger in town, and he happens to be the most adorable candidate for Agriculture Commissioner of South Carolina this writer has ever seen. Probably also the most adorable candidate for Agriculture...

On the West Coast, theft of used cooking oil is on the rise.

Salon challenges Michael Pollan’s stance on gardening for a better world.

In the New York Times Magazine this week: dog food, your food, and the importance of stain-free stools.

Slow Food Nation’s Naomi Starkman on the growing controversy surrounding Tim Vilsack’s nomination as head of the USDA.

Has Cook’s Illustrated gone nuts or is booze the perfect pastry-moistener?

Read an interesting article in the Sun today about NYC gettting hit with an apparent “steak shortage.” Somehow they make the connection between the shortage of beef and our dependence on oil. The switch to Ethanol...

They’re mostly ethanol. From checking out the household product info at the NIH/National Library of Medicine databases...there’s nothing in the rinse agents that appear to me at least to be scarier than the stuff...

corn and soy which often is broken-down into components and used as ingredients in processed foods and toward support of fresh fruit and vegetables. Ethanol's effect on corn prices also mentioned. This could be a great influence...

I just filled 20 250ml bottles with the Nocino I made according to the recipe from Jim Haag at www.Walnuts.US Actually I made some changes: I used 4.5 liters of 100 proof Smirnoff “57” rather than lab standard ethanol...

A few spoonfuls of oil in a dish (particulary a dish using dried seasonings) brings out the flavor. How can I use alcohol to do the same? (This is not a wine or bourbon query. It’s an ETOH ethanol query. Alcohol as a pure...

I suspect it has more to do with weather conditions in the area where the corn was grown. The corn used to produce ethanol is a completely different type of corn, grown a completely different way. While sweet corn (the type...

This is for a S’Mores maker, like Stacey’s. The instructions basically insist that you use ETHANOL-based chafing gel. Regular Sterno has METHANOL, which is fine for heating fondue pots, but probably not a good idea...

I doubt the high prices are a local Miami issue. There has been a rise in milk prices nationwide due to everything from ethanol production subsidies and drought in Australia to declining European production quotas and rising...

subsidies “buy up” the rotted milk. After the U.S. announced subsidies for Corn based Ethanol production the Left & Pro Small Farmer organizations demanded the the right wing PAN government to subsidies Mexican farming...