Ultimate Grilling Guide: Tips For A Better BBQ Season

After a very long winter, there’s no better way to celebrate summer in Chicago than lighting up the grill. We’ve rounded up some of our most sizzlin’ BBQ stories to help you have the best grilling season yet. Better Recipes: Grilled Vegetables Even Carnivores Will Love Most vegetables fare well on the grill and between […]

5 Feel Good “Low Carbon” Snacks

Navitas Organics Chocolate Cacao Power Snack Novato’s Navitas Organics, a certified B Corp, works with cacao grown under strict regenerative practices. Efforts are underway to transition all packaging to post-consumer resin made from recycled plastics, until a compostable option is available. Patagonia Provisions Organic Chile Mango They uses mangos sourced from Nicaragua on the first […]

5 Feel Good “Low Carbon” Snacks

Navitas Organics Chocolate Cacao Power Snack Novato’s Navitas Organics, a certified B Corp, works with cacao grown under strict regenerative practices. Efforts are underway to transition all packaging to post-consumer resin made from recycled plastics, until a compostable option is available. Patagonia Provisions Organic Chile Mango They uses mangos sourced from Nicaragua on the first […]

Quarantine Week 10: Here Are 5 Things To Keep You Sane

Who would have thought the week after a long holiday pandemic holiday would be so hard? Admittedly we are struggling to get in the swing of things again, and are longing for carefree days spent in the sun, exploring the city we love and brunching at our favorite spots with friends and family. Sigh. Until […]

Chicago’s Best Burgers: 2020 Edition

We still need our creature comforts, especially now. And neither wind, nor rain, nor COVID-19 pandemic could keep me from my appointed duty of producing a Best Burger list every other year (it takes me that long to recover from all the cholesterol). This year’s is filled with favorite burgers of years past, classics that […]

Women Taking the Reins at Marin’s Family Farms

  Channeling ancestral pioneers is practically built into the DNA of the farmers and ranchers of West Marin. Dating back to the late 1800s, the great-grandparents of the current crop of farmers in the region often left Europe together, setting out for a life in the United States where they could build farms and community. […]

5 Things To Keep You Sane: Memorial Day Weekend Edition

What a strange world we are living in. We are looking at the upcoming Memorial Day holiday, and wondering how we can safely celebrate the unofficial start of summer and honor the military heroes we’ve lost—while continuing to shelter in place, away from families, friends and community. From virtual Memorial Day observances to BBQ tips, […]

Quarantine Week 8: Here Are 5 Things To Keep You Sane

By now you know the drill: we’re stuck indoors, working from home and grasping onto anything that sparks joy. But at least the sun is shining, there is good news on the horizon and we have five ways for you to support local, and stay sane. Here is what we are digging this week. Saving […]