Legendary Irish Chef Darina Allen Talks Cooking And Gardening On Food Republic Today
Ireland's Darina Allen stopped by our podcast studio to chat about her culinary school, Ballymaloe, and her latest cookbook.
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More Nutritious Tomatoes Grown Using 50% Less Water
Some tomato plants require substantially less water than previously thought, yielding more nutritious tomatoes with fewer resources.
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News Stories From The Wide, Green World Of Salad
You may have heard that only a woeful 1 in 10 Americans includes enough fresh produce in their diet. With that in mind, here's a deep dive into the vibrant bowl of salad news gracing our feeds of late. Grab a pair of tongs and some leafy greens and prepare to brush up on your raw…
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Six Excellent Reasons To Start Composting This Week
Chances are, you've started gazing woefully at your trash can full of carrot tops, watermelon rinds, eggshells and coffee grounds wondering if now's the time to start composting. You may be wondering what you'll need to buy to kick off the process, or what it's like to navigate the world of composting from within a…
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Food Recycler Turns Scraps Into Fertilizer In 24 Hours
Composting leftover organic material from your daily life is eco-friendly, not to mention the responsible thing to do. Traditionally, it's also a commitment to turning a large pile of warm, rotting this-and-that with a shovel every couple of weeks until the finished product is ready. Not anymore. Enter: The Zera Food Recycler, a DIY fertilizer…
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Plant Tomatoes And Basil Together To Repel Bugs
It's time to start planning your summer vegetable and herb gardens. Once nighttime temperatures stay above 50 degrees, plants will thrive outside and start churning out some of the best things about warm weather.Tomatoes won't start fruiting, let alone ripening, until the nights hit 60 degrees, so you've got some time there. But now would be a great time to get…
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Food Truck–Pub Tinder, Wine Trading, Self-Planters: Latest In Food Tech
Has the phrase “There’s an app for that” gone to overkill heaven yet? If not, we’re about to use it because there are now apps for things you probably haven't even thought about.Millennials were the most talked-about wine drinkers last month, having consumed almost half of country’s vino in 2015. This means that more of these young’uns are…
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Can You Actually Re-Grow Food From Scraps? Well, Yeah!
Well here's Cool Thing #3978 about vegetables: they regrow themselves. Know what doesn't regrow itself? That muffin from the deli. YouTube homesteader/sustainable prepper (yup, that's a thing) GaryMule took some coffee grounds and zero dirt, planting pots or land and sprouted himself brand-new celery from just-old-enough celery. Ditto scallions — if you have a houseplant,…
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Watch A Trailer For The Perennial Plate's Restyled Victory Garden Show On PBS
Two-time James Beard Award-winning filmmakers Daniel Klein and Mirra Fine of the Perennial Plate have a new show coming up this winter on PBS. It's a modern reboot of the network's long-running series The Victory Garden, created in partnership with Edible magazines. If it's anything like the duo's prior work on Ethiopia or Cook It…
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It Begins In The Dirt: On The Great Importance Of Home Gardening
Today is officially Sean Brock Day at Food Republic. Brock is no stranger to us, and we like it that way. He’s one of the most-passionate culinary ambassadors for the American South, particularly his beloved Lowcountry (the coastal region of South Carolina). He’s also one of the nicest guys you could share a bottle of…
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Video: An Idaho Farm Presents Twerking X No Pesticide Plants
We’ve all got a few favorite low-budget local commercials. You know, those insanely bad, somewhat comical ads for car dealerships and exterminators that feature some sort of cheesy jingle. The ones bordering on “so bad that it’s good.” Well, one small farm in Idaho is looking to change the perception that all these ads should…
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What Is Savory?
We're not here to discuss whether savory is a good name for a garden herb. It doesn't really taste savory — that's umami's job — because it's, that's right, a garden herb. It tastes astringent, grassy, slightly floral, spicy and herbal, not unlike marjoram or thyme. Now that we've gotten that out of the way,…
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Kitchen Dilemmas 101: What To Do With Too Many Cucumbers?
“What the f--- am I supposed to do with all of these cucumbers?” - Jason Kessler, July 2013 As you can probably tell, I have a predicament. After carefully tending to my little backyard garden for the past few months, I now have the world's largest collection of cucumbers. Or at least that's what it…
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How Do You Dry Fresh Herbs?
If you have the space (and it doesn't take much), you should definitely be growing fresh herbs outside, even in the city. They're hardy survivors, especially the tougher ones like rosemary and thyme, and simply need water and occasional harvesting to keep providing you with flavorful, healthy ingredients. Dry and store part of your yield…
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What Are Microgreens?
Food enthusiasts like us see microgreens meticulously tweezed on elaborate platings like magic little sprouts popping out of something amazing. Sadly, this is not where microgreens come from. If you can imagine, they come from gardens. And they're just what they claim to be. Microgreens are not actually the sprouts of their full-sized counterparts —…
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Mario Batali Hospitality Group Honoring Earth Day With...Genovese Basil!
In honor of Earth Day on Monday, April 22, Batali & Bastianich Hospitality Group will promote sustainability at its restaurants, at home and at the New York Botanical Garden. Each of the Group’s restaurants in New York, Los Angeles and Las Vegas will create a special Earth Day dish, highlighting the versatile herb Genovese basil.…
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Cool Weekend: Learn How To Make Beer And Spirits In The Connecticut Woods
Set in Falls Village, Connecticut, with the beautiful backdrop of the Berkshire Mountains, OFFSITE is a weekend of creative workshops, activities and games for adults. But there is most certainly a food focus. Over the course of the two-night retreat (February 22 – 24), Becky Mumaw and Nick Westervelt of Lisle, New York’s Clawhammer Farm…
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Pineberries Are Not Albino Strawberries
All that's missing from that photo is a sign that says $10/pint. Nope, that's not a rare albino strawberry from a plant in the Galapagos, it's a pineberry. Does it kind of taste like a pineapple? It does, making it a well-named fruit indeed. Pineberries have white flesh and red seeds and are not nearly…
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Slow Food USA Joins The Cause For 1,000 Gardens In Africa
Here in New York City as in many urban centers, the community garden offers an escape from the concrete jungle— a place for neighbors to gather; a place to read and relax, or get your hands dirty. In Africa, gardens can have a much more profound effect. They can even save lives. Hunger and food…
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What's That Smell? Not Your Compost Heap.
With gardening season comes the pressing, almost consuming, urge to compost. No? It smells, you say? Well, thank the Japanese for bokashi composting (and kewpie mayo). Your fertilizer costs and subsequent odors just dropped to zilch. A Wall Street Journal article published this morning touts the benefits of bokashi and how it's finally possible for…
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Why Are There Flowers In My Salad?
Here's what I don't use my half of the fire escape of my Brooklyn apartment for: escaping fires. Nope, I use that precious four square feet to grow one of my favorite spring treats, which also happens to be the easiest way to dress up your simple spring fare: nasturtiums. The brightly colored, sweet, peppery…
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5 Things You Don't Know About Hydroponics
New York may be at the forefront of the urban and rooftop gardening trends. But Gotham Greens is a whole different story. The 15,000-square-foot greenhouse on the roof of a Greenpoint building produces vegetables and fresh herbs using a hydroponic growing system. In other words, it uses no soil whatsoever. The plants are grown in…
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