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!

Country Living: The Thousand-Year Darkness

For a while there even the multitude of slugs living around our house held some fascination for me. (They come in two flavors: rotten banana and Darth Vader.) But not anymore. I don’t care if the slugs put on tiny little, silver-trimmed sombreros and form their own Mariachi band. You won’t get me outside to [...]

Losing My Urbinity: First Impressions of Country Livin'

For those of you who haven’t been religiously hanging on my every tweet (shame on you), I should start by mentioning that my wife and I recently took the plunge. No, we didn’t sell all our earthly belongings and go a-wandering in India.  We merely moved from the city to the hinterland. We rusticated ourselves. [...]