Yukitaka Yamaguchi is known as the Tuna King of Omakase. Step inside his shop at the Tsukiji fish market. And learn …
Catching , cleaning and cooking Geoducks (Razor clams)
There are a ton of ways to lure one of these clams from the sand, but this looks the easiest. …
Eden with an elevator: Gardening for apartment dwellers
How can you grow a little food, brighten any room and bring the great outdoors indoors, even if you live …
Would you eat lab-grown meat?
This company studies the molecular properties of non-animal products like beans and finds the ones that mimic animals. It also …
How to make the best compost (Just add pee!)
How to make the best garden compost – totally for free No matter how rich your soil, if you want …
VIDEO GUIDE: Growing veggies from scraps
Love this! How to have everlasting veggies! I did this two years ago with some green onions and I now …
WEIRD: Listen to rhubarb grow!
Rhubarb grows really fast, about an inch per day. And because it grows out from a ‘crown’, the stalks are …
Fishing for shrimp on horseback
This is an amazing technique. Filmed back in the 1920s and 30s, these are Belgian horse fishermen trawling up shrimp. I …
Mozzarella- the gateway cheese! (And Ricotta!) Get 2-for-1
OK, so I believe the Italians are the best at this so visit this copyrighted site for great mozzarella and …
Salvation Army opens cheap grocery store in ‘food desert’
Baltimore today got the country’s inaugural location of DMG Foods (after the Salvation Army’s motto, “Doing the Most Good”). Called …
Survival pantry: Do’s, Don’ts and Must Haves
Salt: It’s a great preservative and adds years to the shelf-life of foods. Note that some of the salty canned goods …
5 Primitive Oven Concepts
From digging her own clay and hauling non-river stones, to lacing boughs, to recycling concrete blocks, to digging simple ‘grave’ …
4 tips that will help you to identify plants and fungus
Looking to identify more plants and mushrooms this year? Here are a few strategies that may improve your skills. Here …
Primitive Culture: How to Cook an Egg in a Potato (Purple Yam, actually!)
A great guide from Cambodia on cooking in a fire pit. Here he bakes eggs in a hard potato-like yam. …
Scientists are breeding super-nutritious crops to help solve global hunger
A week or so ago I covered the amazing bio-agricultural chemist, Norman Borlaug, and how he saved India from staving …
One huge reason the Population Bomb didn’t kill us
Remember when we were all going to die? And when if you didn’t eat your dinner your mom said “There’s …
How to catch fish in a trap made from twigs
This Cambodian shows us how to catch fish in a river using naturally occurring resources. He uses what look like …
Stachys byzantine – The miracle plant that kids can grow
Wooly Lamb’s Ear, (Stachys byzantine), has been used for centuries as a medicinal herb. It’s so easy to grow that …
Bear poops in wood – on Hunter!
Because bears pooping on people from trees are just funny.
Where are all the turkey eggs?
All those turkeys. And never an egg. Yet turkey eggs contain most of the same nutrients as chicken eggs. The …
Deep Fried Turkey Accidents
Because we all love watching things go BANG! if no one is hurt.
William Shatner on deep-fried turkey safety
Back in 2011, State Farm teamed up with William Shatner to produce a short video dramatizing an actual accident where …
How to make butter.
Why is this so satisfying to watch? Want to make your own butter? Remember: 1 quart (32 ounces) cream yields …
Would you cook Thanksgiving dinner in the dishwasher?
We’ve all heard of the woman who poached a salmon on the top shelf of the dishwasher and the episode …
Farmers for America. How change is coming to our food system.
This Mike Rowe narrated documentary traces the extraordinary changes coming to America’s food system as more and more consumers flock …
VIDEO: Could you catch this MONSTER rattlesnake?
Do you have what it takes to be a rattlesnake wrangler? It takes skill, guts, and a few choice tools. …
Here are the seven books you need to read this month
I’m a big believer in trying to go deep in subjects as often as you can. Cal Newport’s fantastic book Deep …
Is roasting tomatoes the best thing to happen to sauce?
And it’s easy. Just put your fresh tomatoes in a cake or roasting pan, smother with olive oil, season with salt …
Chicken of the Woods – Yours for the taking
(Laetiporus sp.) is a choice edible mushroom which usually grows on standing or fallen dead wood. In this video, the …