

Carla Ramsdell
- Jan 23, 2019
Energy Efficient Food …. It’s all about the SAUCE ! ?
OK, so this blog title may seem like a bit of a stretch but here’s my thinking…. In order to realize a sustainable food future, we have to ‘TAKE BACK COOKING” – reinvigorate a love of home cooking so we replace our dependence on hyper-processed, packaged food with enormous embodied energy with home-cooked food from real, simple, maybe even local ingredients. But, competing with the flavors of some processed or take-out food can be challenging, with their calorie dense, tempti


Carla Ramsdell
- Jan 8, 2019
How does an electric INDUCTION cooktop work?
In the past, there used to be only two mainstream options for stovetop burner selection: Electric resistance and Gas flame. Now there’s a third option and it demands some attention since it is very energy efficient – electric induction cooktop. In fact, if I were purchasing a cooktop today, I would choose induction. These cooktops “look” very similar to a modern electric resistance cooktop with it’s glass top AND is also similar to these electric resistance cooktops since t