Home Ecology (aka Eco Living & more)
Home Ecology: Making Your World a Better Place was published in London when I was 31, with a 3-month-old baby and a toddler. The book was a surprise bestseller thanks to its being chosen one of Britain’s Top 20 Green Books in a national promotion sponsored by The Observer. You can see the time I was interviewed on national television while changing my baby’s nappy – a truly terrible first media experience! You can read about the financial disaster I suffered as a result of threats from the law firm representing McDonalds in what became the infamous McLibel case, when the US hamburger chain McDonalds spent vast sums attacking UK environmentalists in a way that was impossible in the US.
The PDF eBook of the 1989 book is available free at Berkshire Publishing’s website. Click here to order at $0.00 by adding the eBook to your cart.
A wholesome loaf
We’re not the first people to need a better daily bread. A loaf that is 100% whole grain and suitable for both toast and sandwiches. A loaf that is anyone can make, easily. As World [...]
Cooking through a crisis
After I published the post "To Cook A Wolf - Baking with M F K Fisher," the cookbook platform ckbk suggested we collaborate in promoting an idea we both clearly believe: that home cooking can [...]
Foraging & fiddleheads
Long before lockdown began in Massachusetts, I’d been laying in supplies at the urging of my son in Beijing, who’d already been through it. I started planning a vegetable garden, but was a little concerned [...]
Where has the toilet paper gone?
Social distancing has led to some intimate sharing in my neighborhood, starting with a plaintive email asking if anyone knew where you could find some toilet paper. Here’s the response that got the ball rolling: [...]
To Cook A Wolf – Baking with M F K Fisher
I’m in a war-time, Victory Garden frame of mind. There is no actual food shortage and no prospect, it seems, of running out of food. But going to the shops has left us shaken: the [...]
Walking down Broadway at the Climate March
I'm not a fan of big crowds, and my activism generally starts with fingers on a keyboard, but there was no way I wasn't going to be in New York last Friday, the day of [...]
Don’t Call Me A Green Consumer
It was the early 1990s and “green” was going corporate. A book called The Green Consumer Guide had become a bestseller in the UK. I lived in London and my first book had just been [...]
Real Irish Soda Bread (no raisins, no sugar)
I read a novel set in Ireland this week and this is the happy result: traditional Irish Soda Bread for tea. The recipe comes from http://www.sodabread.info/. It is the simplest recipe I have ever used [...]
Flowers in the Depths of Winter
Orchids are tougher than I am! The snow is still deep and it is bitterly cold outside. It is cold in the house, too, dropping to 55 Fahrenheit at night, and perhaps even lower near [...]