SUSTAINABLE COOKING


There's a chef in the garden
By MARY VUONG Copyright 2008 Houston Chronicle March 31, 2008, 12:47PM

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Every chef knows that good food begins in the garden. Greens, herbs, and other produce grown in healthy soil and picked ripe are superior in taste and quality. And whether they know it or not, chefs- just like good gardeners- depend on compost for that high-caliber produce.

 
Compost is a rich, organic material that devolves from vegetable residue, egg shells, coffee grounds, fish, and other materials in which these recyclables degrade through a natural biological process that transforms and sanitizes them (at temperatures of more that 130 degrees Fahrenheit in the compost pile) into a rich humus. This material can then be used as a soil conditioner in agriculture and home gardens...Read More

 




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