If you are an artist, a chef, a baker, a kid or simply a kid at heart, They Draw & Cook may be the single best cookbook to put on your holiday gift list this season. Nothing like regular cookbooks, it’s a compilation of illustrations of recipes, rather than instructions, each contributed from various artists around the world. Truly captivating the spirit of cooking, it illuminates the heart of a dish that many home cooks find so lacking in plain text and photo cookbooks.

This Black Friday, we've rounded up some incredible organic, eco, conscious and pretty kick-ass faves that make great gifts as well as usher in new models of doing business fit for any day of the year.  And since the where-I-spend-my-dollar choice is far more than a symbolic gesture these days, there's even more reason to turn Black Friday into Green Friday this holiday season. Not only can we gift consciously, but we may also find great reward in supporting our communities through volunteering, adopting a shelter animal, planting a tree or community garden this season, too.

With the holidays in full swing, you’re no doubt going to be cooking up a storm all season long. While jamming out to Bing Crosby Christmas carols and watching the snowflakes fall outside the window, you might lose track of your “pinches” and “teaspoons,” only to find one of your dishes too salty or too spicy. When this happens, don’t despair: You can salvage that potpie, apple crisp or turkey casserole. Here are some tips that chefs use in the kitchen to balance seasoning mistakes.

The dream of the perfect calorie-counting app has been dreamt, and over the last few months, companies have attempted to actualize the ambition. The heralded breakthrough arrived earlier this year with MealSnap. The technology is pretty simple from a user's perspective: Take a photo of your meal, upload and "auto magically" wait for a number. General reviews have all come to a similar conclusion: The calorie counts are very broad, but at least an app making you conscious of what you eat exists.

One of the easiest ways to know that things are not going well is the continued use of the word "deep." Deep well drilling and deep sea fishing are perhaps the two most prominent in today's world, cluing us in on the fact that those industries have exhausted more manageable supplies. A recent investigation by Greenpeace has found that Spanish fleets are pulling in three times the amount of fish, predominantly funded through EU subsidies, and have released a video to raise awareness of the issue.

One of the biggest topics we cover here at Organic Authority is biotech a.k.a. GMOs (genetically modified organisms). It's almost hard to believe that nearly 80 percent of all processed foods now contain GMOs; and what's worse is that there are currently absolutely no labeling requirements anywhere in the U.S.! But there is good news: California is working to become the first state to require mandatory labeling of GMOs. And we're so honored to be participating in a panel discussion on this topic next week. Read on for the details!

Food trucks are as ubiquitous in New York City as Yankees caps, subway signs and text message-obsessed tourists. Finding one is never a problem; finding one worth eating at, however, is a whole other rub. As someone who lived in that great city for twelve years, I've eaten at—and gotten sick because of—a fair share of food trucks. It's too bad I didn't find out about Tweat.it until now, staring out my window at another coastline (although LA food truck culture is pretty impressive as well).

Perhaps it started with the deep-fried Mars bar, or maybe the deep-fried Twinkie, but our nation’s love affair with everything dunked in batter and cooked in hot oil has exploded in the last few years. No longer reserved for French fries and onion rings, deep-frying as a cooking method has taken over everything from sliced pickles (delicious dipped in Ranch dressing) as well as the Thanksgiving turkey (cooked in a specially designed fryer).

There are an overwhelming number of food documentaries on the market today, ranging from political to fanatical and documentary to educational. One of the latest to come out, Nourish, is an incredibly refreshing step apart from the otherwise heavy food docs. With a near G-rating and Disney-like tone, it doesn’t try to scare you into eating well; rather, it brings you the leading voices in the food industry to invite you in with ease and nonchalance.

Seasoned or newbie foodies can rarely pass up an opportunity to run their fingers over a hi-tech kitchen gadget. Perhaps it's because we view these tools as mere extensions of our culinary potential: the precisely sliced tomato, uniformly minced garlic, an entirely emptied lemon...Ah yes, nothing makes a meal quite as perfect as…perfection. Besides, let's not kid ourselves! Gadgets make food preparation fun. Also fun? Giving them away! Check out how you can enter for your chance to win the newest KitchenAid 13 cup Food Processor from Organic Authority!