Click on panels to enlarge. This is a Christmas card we received from our friend Dirk Savagewood from his secret celebrity hideawa...

While some may claim that yarn bombing has jumped the shark when internet searches start turning up images of tanks and city buses co...

What's a better start to the holiday weekend than seeing a pile of Cardigan Corgi puppies? These guys (well, five guys and three girl...

This year I've spouted off about my idea of the perfect gift , so I'll spare you a repeat of that rant, but how about a (pun inte...

There's something about getting out of the city that somehow opens my eyes to the beauty of the landscape. I was driving out to Ayers...

As regular readers of GoodStuffNW know, contributor Jim Dixon of RealGoodFood is all about the fritters. He's made them from everythin...

My idea of the perfect gift has these attributes: It doesn't need dusting. It reminds you of the person who gave it to you. It ma...

Sometimes events conspire to change the most engrained habits. And I hate that. Or I would hate it if the event in question didn't br...

There's nothing much more satisfying than a piping hot bowl of soup and a warm slice of fresh bread on a cold winter night. And that...

My friend Linda is in Paris looking after her daughter who is finishing her school finals there. (What a good mom!) In her spare time sh...

For those of us who wonder why in the world anyone would pay what seems like an outrageous price for some fancy Italian balsamic vinegar ...

Got foodie friends on your list? People who know their way around a kitchen? For cooks it's easy…think how thrilling it would be to g...

If it wasn't for a teensy misunderstanding, I might have been enjoying sauerkraut long before I did. You see, my mother knew that my ...

Every year, at contributor Jim Dixon's annual Olive Oil Garage Sale , he made his famous soup to warm the souls of shoppers willing t...

If you, like me, are a fool for braising and roasting, then Tuesday night is your night. That's because Vermont food writer Molly St...

Much as I try to avoid publishing gossip and innuendo, in this essay contributor Anthony Boutard of Ayers Creek Farm makes a convincing ca...

It was time to get serious. I could no longer countenance the flooding of my sneakers whilst slogging through the rain with the dogs, muc...

A couple of days ago I was visiting my friend Kim at her home in Happy Valley, an area that's being carpeted by tract homes and McMans...

By now, "buy local" is a mantra for everything from where we shop for groceries to where we buy our books. Not that the interne...