Globe artichokes

Article/Recipe: Have a heart.

Dealing with globe artichokes. Comes with a recipe for artichoke and bacon tart.

Simply cooked and slowly plucked until the meaty heart is revealed, the largest artichokes need the least complicated of additions to make a feast. Unadulterated melted butter is hard to beat, though a little adulteration rings the changes. Try our anchovy butter, or melted, salted butter with a few chopped thyme leaves (lemon thyme in particular), a little lemon juice and a few grinds of black pepper.

Chicken, farro and pesto salad

Recipe: Chicken, farro and pesto salad

In case you ever have some farro and are wondering what to do with it. Farro, usually grown in Italy, is also known as 'emmer wheat.'

Cut Back on Meat

Article: Putting Meat back in its Place.

Or how to cut back on meat in your meals, from an American point of view.

7. Look at restaurant menus differently. If you’re cutting back on meat, there are three restaurant strategies. Two are easy, and one is hard, but probably the most important.

The first: go to restaurants that don’t feature meat-heavy dishes. It’s harder to go overboard eating at most Asian restaurants, and traditional Italian is fairly safe also.

The second: Once in a while, forget the rules and pledges, and eat like a real American; obviously you can’t do this every time, but it’s an option.