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 [...]

Why Did We Start Eating Junk?

I like to think that the slow food/good food/real food movement (or whatever you want to call it) partly owes its success to the weird diet, the fallout-shelter “food” many of us grew up in the ’70s and ’80s. It all had one thing in common: left to its own devices, it would take months [...]