Food and Hearth

This time of year, we eat a lot of tomatoes. We eat them fresh, sliced on sandwiches or with mozzarella and cucumbers. We cook them briefly...

My husband and I have decided to get away from the bay area urban rat race and live a simpler life: we're moving to rural Washington St...

We just returned from a trip to the Northwest where the blackberries are ripe. They grow everywhere and drop onto the ground like rain. O...

 Years ago, when I was working the night shift, I had a box of stone fruit ripening in the kitchen. I arrived home in the morning to discov...

When my 16 month old son asked for a taste of this jam, we told him no. "It's hot," we said. But he insisted. We gave him a t...

Years ago, when I first started at my job, I learned that a group of my nurse colleagues adopt a peach tree from Masumoto Family Farm . Act...

photo courtesy of ABC7 news I am a white registered nurse. I work in an inner city hospital. Most days, 50-75% of my patients are bla...