Perchance to Dine in Wine Country

Published in the October 2002 issue of Alaska Airlines Magazine THOUGH FOLKS here will try to tell you that fermented grapes are a food group, one cannot live on wine alone, even in California’s Wine Country. And who would want to? Tucked between the vineyards...

Red Fish, Green Fish

Published in Natural Home, Nov./Dec. 2002 To eat or not to eat? It’s not easy making your way through the tangled nets of sustainable seafood choices — but a host of celebrity chefs want to help. A FEW YEARS AGO, New York chef Peter Hoffman came across a...

Behind the Label

Published in E Magazine, February 2003 How Well Is the Forest Stewardship Council Protecting Trees? Outside San Francisco’s high-tech Sony Metreon complex, environmental activists are rallied around a 200-year-old redwood stump they’ve rolled onto the...

A New Lease

Published in July/August 2002 issue of Natural Home Car parts ended up all over the house. A windshield from a 924 Porsche juts over the plate-glass storefront door, bouncing light onto the walkway. Volvo hatchbacks brace a stair railing. Red, yellow and green road...

The Memory of Plants

Some of Linda Reynolds’ earliest memories are stored not in the pages of a photo album, but in the fuzzy leaves of an African violet.  “When I was growing up, we often went to Grandma Michael’s house for Sunday dinner. Afterwards she would take me...