Last night's dinner at Stortovets Gjaestgiveri, a restaurant since 1700 -- my halibut had a topping of fish roe, Len had a splendid f...

Runde, Norway, from a boat trip we took yesterday. Runde Lighthouse from the boat. We also saw colonies of nesting gannets and puffins...

Gyrfalcon chick on its nest Moorhen chicks After feeding the babies, mother bird leaves nesting box to get more food. Swans wi...

In The Subprimes, a very recent satiric novel by Karl Taro Greenfeld, the setting is not far in a future in which all our worst fears hav...

“What’s a foodie?” was the start of a conversation related to Tracie McMillan by one of her neighbors, Martina, one of many examples of acqu...

John James Audubon's painting of the Greater Prairie Chicken. Author Beahrs watched the mating dance of the once-plentiful birds in o...

Breakfast at Borcher's Canoe Livery and B&B where we stayed Thursday and Friday nights. Breakfast Saturday monring: really de...

At Hartwick Pines State Park we met the Audubon Society tour to visit the Kirkland's warbler nesting areas. That's why we are in...

"You can be a Bolshevik, march with the flag, say what you’re expected to, and still help a fellow Jew here and there. ... You know,...

When I was around ten years old, I ate a Peter Pan peanut butter sandwich, no jelly, for lunch every day -- on Wonder Bread. Peanut butte...

In the 1960s, when Mary Taylor Simeti began her life in Sicily, peasants still used the traditional painted carts to at least occasionally...

A crowd of birdwatchers looking for one little Connecticut Warbler, May 16, 2015 Magee Marsh is a beautiful preserve in Ohio, where larg...

From Mark Bittman's column today in the New York Times , a penetrating suggestion: "Without economic justice there is no nutritiona...