How to make your own sausage with just a sharp knife, in step-by-step photos. (Then use it to season everything in sight, starting with polenta.)

We came, we saw, we milked a cow. 

Deborah Madison's new book, Vegetable Literacy, sheds light on the relationships within families of vegetables, and shows us how to capitalize on those ties in our cooking.

We're sharing three different ways to compost your kitchen scraps.