Against the Grain

How Dirty Does My Home Need to be to Make You Comfortable?

I have one word for all self-appointed…

When Life Goes Sideways then Takes You Back in Time

No Country for Old Food Standards

At the moment, I’m trying figure out how I can make a Tikka Masala dish without tomatoes…and make it…

Kababbs and Paastuh

In Praise of the English Tongue

In Search of Meaning and Satisfaction with Monthly Budgeting

Can You Turn a Finite Monthly Budget into…

The Lost Art of Home Visitation Etiquette

On being mystified by what even strangers feel free to say

Once upon a time, it was considered good and common practice to a) keep a clean home, and b) for visitors to appreciate said. This was certainly the case when I lived in…

Bayer to Buy Monsanto for $66 Billion

GMO Goes Global, Beyond the Reach of Regulation?

Random Bits: Non-GMO Recipe of the Day

Today I am launching a column for “Against the Grain” entitled Random Bits. This gives all…

Freedom

FREE’DOM, n.

A state of exemption from the power or control of another; liberty; exemption from slavery, servitude or…