This is an excellent primer on canning meat. The lady is a great teacher (although the very last instructions about …
Billy and Dec’s Bronze-Age Beer!
While beer drinking was common throughout the Far East nearly 5,000 years ago and growing evidence exists of the same …
Glyphosate: The other side
I was away last week and someone in the office posted a piece about the Monsanto case where the jury …
Everything You Want (and Need) To Know About Long-Term Canned Food Storage. (Plus 10 Signs To Look For When It’s Spoiled)
You’ve likely got a nice supply of canned goods in your pantry and food storage inventory, but how long do …
Cured egg yolk recipe. Use instead of grated cheese.
Can’t eat cheese? Miss grating an extra taste over your pasta sauce or salad? Try cured egg yolk. It’s salty …
Preserving eggs the 18th century way!
Imagine no refrigeration. How would you keep your eggs fresh? Here are some techniques you may not have considered. And …
Fake and tainted honey
Everyone loves honey. But is it real? Cheap imports of counterfeit honey are endangering beekeeping around the world, and the …
It’s official! Coffee is awesome!
According to a new report, but not for the first time, coffee is being hailed as really good for you. …
Home Canning and Botulism
Home canning is an excellent way to preserve garden produce and share it with family and friends. But it can …
How to make Cooler Corn
When you run out of stovetop space but need to make a couple dozen cobs? Cooler, butter and boiling water …
Everything you ever wanted to know about tuna…
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 …