Mary Crimmins

For the past several days, my Facebook friends have been sharing this image. It is a sculpture by Chinese artist Liu Qiang that depicts our dependency on milk as masses of humanity suckle on the teats of a cow who is in great anguish.  So this has long been a debate, as our population grows and our consumption of food grows it is [...]

As I have mentioned before, Chris and I eat out a lot. To be honest, it is a habit that was formed years ago during a crisis in our lives and by being reactive we seared into our routine the default of eating out. I actually love to cook and am pretty darn good at it [...]

I can’t believe that this month is already over, and the Eat Local Challenge is done. I woke up this morning thinking about what I was going to have for breakfast – “I think I have some local granola and local milk left – used the local eggs up yesterday…” and then is dawned on [...]

Recently I’ve been back on the eating out train, an old habit of my pre-locavore life. One of my goals for the next year is to eat living, life-giving fresh local food. I have broken this goal down to my 3 month goal, and finally to my one month goal – which is to eat [...]