Kristine Kidd has been influencing America’s foodie culture for quite some time - she was the food editor for Bon Appetit for 20 years. As the resident food expert, she was responsible for filling the magazine’s pages with delicious inspired recipes, wrote a monthly column and even created dishes for the cover. What a cool job!  

For some, turning 30 can cause momentary lapses into sheer panic, neuroses and genuine freak-outs. But not if you're the Santa Monica Farmers Market. Arguably one of the most loved farmers markets in the U.S., the legendary foodie haven adored by Los Angelinos and the city's finest chefs will celebrate its milestone 30^th birthday in cool stride with the Good Food Festival and Conference.

THE FALL HARVEST GOODIE BOX IS OFFICIALLY SOLD OUT! We sold out in 1 hour and 13 minutes flat! 

To celebrate the fall harvest season, we’re launching our first ever Fall Harvest Goodie Box to inspire you to get into the kitchen and cook!  With over 23 products hand curated by our editor-in-chief, Laura Klein, you’re bound to get inspired and cook up lots of fresh eats!

With only 30 goodie boxes for sale and over $430 worth of product in each, these are certain to go quick. Starting Tuesday, September 13^th, for the next six days, we’ll reveal four to five products per day that come in the Fall Harvest Goodie Box. The Box goes on sale Tuesday, September 20^th at 9am pacific time. Supplies are super limited – this offer is available only to the first 30 buyers.

Check back daily to see what the day’s big reveal is. Read on to discover today’s products and final pricing.

One of my icons in the organic food and green movement is the Rodale family. You don’t read about the Rodale family in the press much, but behind the scenes they are a silent multimedia publishing behemoth that quietly publishes mainstream books, magazines, websites and more about advice, health and wellness, and the environment (they are the largest independent book publisher in the United States).

When I got the opportunity to interview Maria Rodale CEO and Chairman of Rodale Inc., I was thrilled! Read on and get inspired.

Whether you've set foot in Alice Waters' Berkeley restaurant, Chez Panisse, read any of her cookbooks or never even heard of her before now, you've most likely been affected by her love of food and uncompromising passion for quality. She is to American cooking what Neil Armstrong is to the moon (except she'd never travel that far to find something fresh and delicious to eat). There are hundreds of reasons to love Alice, but in celebration of Chez Panisse's 40th anniversary, we give you our 40 most delicious...

The biggest celebrities in Hollywood these days might surprise you. Nope, not Anne Hathaway or Johnny Depp; it's the all-star lineup of celeb chefs appearing at the epic LA Times and Food and Wine's "The Taste" festival taking place over Labor Day weekend.

Oprah Winfrey reinvented television, print media and the ways in which a human can embrace the ever-complex situation of… being human. It wasn't easy; she was ridiculed and criticized, but her vision prevailed, whether we like it or not. She shared the O Magazine cover with Ellen DeGeneres in December 2009 (shared only with Michelle Obama before then), giving a not-so-subtle nod to the heir-apparent after Oprah's final sign-off earlier this year. A rule breaker herself, Ellen created controversy when outing her character on Ellen in 1997. A long-time vegan, she's been known to take a stand for animals, and the recent launch of her vegan blog offers a panoply of O-inspired 'yes you can' encouragement and enthusiasm. Much like Oprah's bold moves, Ellen's timing couldn't be any better.

I swoon, you swoon, we all swoon for ooey gooey cheese... so what's all this talk about eating vegan versions? How on earth could anything compare to the pure satisfying delight that is coagulated, acidified, pasteurized, aged milk? Pizza would be nothing without its mozzarella-y canvas... macaroni could easily be a mere mockery without a liberal dousing of emulsified cheddar sauce... Reuben sandwiches complete snoozeville without the pleasing oomph afforded by Swiss... and let's not even get started on how any of us could possibly wrap our minds around a cheese plate robbed of its lush brie or tangy goat morsels. So... the conventional cheese that we all know and love? There really is no suitable replacement. It would be like saying that chocolate dipped strawberries taste just as good when they're crowned in melted carob chips (um, that would be a helllll to the no).

Or maybe not.

When Organic Authority editor Laura Klein offered me the chance to try a product that grows pearl oyster mushrooms from a box of recycled coffee grounds right on your kitchen countertop, I was nothing short of stoked. What food writer wouldn't jump on the chance to grow gourmet mushrooms out of composted waste and create recipes with the harvest? I had ten days to grow my mushrooms from a box of, well, garbage, and turn them into a meal of organic savories. How did it turn out? Read on.

Remember when we were kids - those of us who watched far too much television, at least - and we had every song from every cereal commercial memorized? My personal favorite was the “Magically Delicious” tune for Lucky Charms. Now, as an adult, I realize there’s a reason why these cereals were “magically delicious.” They’re full of chemicals magically concocted in a lab. And, in my wiser years, I fear this label can be applied to my grown-up favorites, including summer’s darling: Frozen yogurt.