Joining such gastronomic prognosticators as this one and that one, NPR's Bonny Wolf lays out her predictions for the coming year in food. Most of Wolf's ideas have been expressed elsewhere, but this one stood out to me: The recession has brought back home-cooked meals in a big way, Wolf says. "It will mean an [...]

NPR aired a segment this morning on how Connecticut "became the first state in the nation to enact standards to protect the purity of olive oil." All I can say is: It's about time. Olive oil fraud has been on the rise ever since Americans fell in love with the so-called Mediterranean diet. Four years [...]

NPR gave a little air time yesterday to Marcelle Bienvenue, co-editor of Cooking Up A Storm: Recipes Lost and Found from The Times-Picayune of New Orleans, who combed through the newspaper's archives to help residents rebuild their family cookbooks that were washed away during Katrina.  The paper's Brett Anderson has already been doing award-winning work, reporting on the the city's famous [...]