Chinese Takeout

Nothing Says Home for the Holidays Like Take-Out

Marilyn M. Machlowitz | Posted 11.26.2008 | Style


Marilyn M. Machlowitz

Home-cooking may be on its way to becoming an oxymoron. It may only be Baby Boomers like me who still feel a smidge of guilt at not doing it all ourselves.

Life Cycle: Styrofoam: Mark of the Plastic Beast

Simran Sethi | Posted 09.18.2008 | Green


Simran Sethi

Life Cycle is a series of posts that looks at the life and death of everyday things. Your Styrofoam lunch container of Mooshu pork is labeled with...

Life Cycle: Greening the Other White Meat

Simran Sethi | Posted 09.04.2008 | Green


Simran Sethi

Large, corporate pig farms are home to deep vats of untold tons of pig crap, called "lagoons," which regularly overflow or seep past inadequate lining into the earth.