If you eat you owe it to yourself to cultivate horticultural skills to enhance your culinary explorations, and to save vegetables and fruits from jet-lag, or worse yet– road rage!

I've known of Judy Barrett for years, but had not met her until our interview for our show about removing the intimidation of growing a food garden. I found Judy to be gracious, funny, charming and generous. Exactly how you'd imagine someone who loves to garden and cook.

Cultivating a home vegetable garden isn't exactly a new idea. Back when most people grew some of their own food, they did so not because it was trendy, but because it was necessary for survival. Well, everything old is new again.

For us in the US, sugar cubes haven’t changed much: they remain squares of compressed white sucrose crystals that…if we’re telling the truth…don’t fully dissolve in hot or cold liquids. Now we have a game changer. Elayne Crain of Austin Sugarworks turns humble sugar granules into works of functional art.

Do you love sweets? If you answered yes, you already have one thing in the common with Austin Sugarworks founder Elayne Crain.

Taste is one of our five senses, and we're able to recognize five tastes: sweet, sour, bitter, salty and umami. Of those five, we're born craving sweet. So is it any wonder we have a love affair with sugar?

For our February Pie-a-palooza, Mike Sutter of Fed Man Walking conducted a Q & A with with Taff Mayberry, the pastry chef for Olivia and the man behind the Southern-style pies at Lucy’s Fried Chicken.

February is National Pie Month. It’s not surprising we dedicate an entire month to pie; after all, humans have loved this filled pastry since ancient Egyptian times when it was just an oat or wheat crust filled with honey and cooked on coals.

There's the odd spice, such as sumac, or the way food and spice is combined or cooked--but most of the elements of Middle Eastern cookery are not as foreign to Westerners as you might imagine.

What do you want to eat after a month of fasting? Something good, of course. Sahar Arafat-Ray is our guest this week, and explains how to make Middle Eastern dishes that Muslims might eat to break the fast of Ramadan.