Conscious Cook belongs to a network of blogs promoting and examining the growing food movement. It's part politics, part economics and part home cooking. The goal is a complete transformation of North American food culture. Welcome!

Home Cookery For The Junk-foodaholic

Ok, so you’ve read your Michael Pollan, bought The Art of Simple Food, and now you’re dedicated to the proposition that home-cooking is where it’s at. No more processed food for you. No, sir.

Ah, if only it were that easy. But let’s face it: we’re recovering addicts. Processed food is deliberately loaded with brain-pleasing salt [...]

Work Less, Cook More

The need for more home cooking has been a basic ingredient of The Food Movement for a while now. Here’s Michael Pollan on the subject:

…So cooking matters — a lot. Which when you think about it, should come as no surprise. When we let corporations do the cooking, they’re bound to go heavy on sugar, [...]