Year of the Rooster: Celebrating Chinese New Year

Year of the Rooster: Celebrating Chinese New Year Rosminah Brown Bring out your brooms to brush away the influence of the Yang Monkey, who brought clever but conniving and deceitful behavior into our lives. Clean your house, tidy up the cupboards and pay homage to the Kitchen God before he makes his yearly report on […]

Farming & Eating to Fight Climate Chaos, and More

Farming & Eating to Fight Climate Chaos, and More When I wrote Diet for a Small Planet fifty years ago, questioning a meat-centered diet built on large-scale, chemically addicted agriculture meant you were naive “back to the lander.” Since then, we’ve seen a revolution in awareness: Transforming how we farm and eat is increasingly recognized as essential—both […]

Maryland Baker Elise Smith Stars in Magnolia Workshops from Joanna and Chip Gaines

Maryland Baker Elise Smith Stars in Magnolia Workshops from Joanna and Chip Gaines Elise smith in her kitchen. photo by Lindsay Anne Belliveau, la Birdie Photography By Tim Ebner, Edible DC Ever since Elise Smith was a young girl, she dreamed of hosting her own cooking show. Fast forward a decade later, and Smith recently […]

Plant Power

Adopting a plant-based lifestyle led me to discover a whole new world of food

Travel to Charleston and Eat, Drink & Stay Like a DC Local

Travel to Charleston and Eat, Drink & Stay Like a DC Local The Hotel Bennett, a new boutique hotel in Charleston, SC, launched by the Salamander Hotels and Resorts hotel brand. Photo courtesy of Hotel Bennett. By Tim Ebner, Edible DC Charleston is one of the top food cities in America, and while it may […]

In Harmony with Nature

By Madeleine Hill Vedel In Harmony with Nature Sustainable food garden program takes root at Interlochen. “It was the summer of 2016, and the Board of Trustees wanted us to do things more sustainably on campus. The initial idea was to put in a school garden, that summer,” Emily Umbarger tells me. “I said, ‘Let’s slow […]

American Beauties

The case for field-to-vase: Cut flowers are latest frontier in buy-local campaign

It’s a Dirty Business—and He Loves It!

It’s a Dirty Business—and He Loves It! In conservation with soil expert Steve Darcey Steve Darvey gives Edible DC the dirt—on dirt. By Lani Furbank, photography by Laura Chase de Formigny, from the Edible DC spring issue Steve Darcey knows soil is more than just dirt. “Soil is the sustainer of life,” he says. Throughout […]

Wow à la Lao

Thip Khao’s Asian flavors begin in chef’s backyard garden