John D. Ivanko

If you grow jalapeño peppers and you’re wondering what to do with them all this summer, there’s nothing like transforming your bumper crop into a gourmet appetizer.

Most of us just watch the Super Bowl for the commercials, throw some joke comments around and move on to the guacamole bowl. Others, like Marji Guyler-Alaniz, see much more and draw inspiration for food-system change.

While permaculture may be a buzz word in sustainable-agriculture circles, most of the discussion focuses on garden planning and growing, not taking the concept all the way to the plate.

Taste and share some love this coming Valentine’s Day in brownie form. These brownies, a recipe from Mariana Cortez’s Bunnie Cakes Bakery, in Miami, offer a healthier chocolate splurge.

How did we “beat” that last lingering bucket of fall beets in our basement root cellar? No more roasting or pickling for us.

When we moved to our Wisconsin farmstead, Inn Serendipity, nearly 20 years ago, we quickly embraced home cooking, partly because we didn’t have another option

There’s one real remedy to winter in Wisconsin: hot soup.

In that “everything old is new again” category, we re-introduce the pretzel.

We’re always looking for ways to get back to our food traditions, often influenced by ethnic or cultural heritage.

Miniature foods are all about the fun look. They’re trendy, cool, hip and one of the top culinary wedding trends for 2013.