How to make perfect compost

Want to make perfect compost? then I advise that you start in the kitchen.

Vancouver restaurant reduces garbage by 98 per cent

A Kitsilano restaurant and bakery has cooked up a recipe to eliminate organic waste and virtually all its garbage.After replacing their industrial-sized dumpster, which had to be emptied four times a week with a composting machine, last August, Trafalgars Bistro and Sweet Obsession Cakes and Pastries have eliminated 100 per cent of their organic waste. Both businesses now share a small ...

The lowly sayote

THE Frugal Housewife is here again and guess what is in her market basket? The sayote. That’s what. Now that sayote prices are back to normal, we can happily indulge in this completely inexpensive and healthy food. At about two or so months ago the price of sayote was exorbitant, what with each sayote selling at 10 pesos.

Jamie Schler: Grand Marnier Bundt Recipe To Start The Year

I needed something spectacular to end the old year and see in the new, something boozy, something festive, a cake that reflects the joy I feel, the excitement in the air.

Valerie Gomez, Santa Cruz County Stories: Former restaurant operator now 'Demo Queen' at Capitola Trader Joe's

CAPITOLA -- Valerie Gomez used to be a fairly typical Trader Joe's customer. Like so many who pass through the doors of the Brown Ranch Marketplace store, Gomez would stop at the sample corner and accept the daily offering before continuing her shopping.