Organic Food Guide

Healthy recipes, shopping tips, and ideas for smart eating.

Shopping Tips

6 Tips for Navigating Farmers’ Markets
Get the most out of your local farmers’ market with these helpful pointers.

Summer Ideas

Preserving Summer Produce
Use these easy recipes and freezing tips to make the most of summer produce both now and in the fall.

Recipes for Frozen Summer Produce
Twenty-two recipes that bring back the taste of summer.

Olive-Oil Buying Checklist

Use these smart suggestions from Nicholas Coleman, the chief olive-oil specialist at Eataly, New York City’s Italian-food mecca, to suss out the best oils in your local market.

• A dark-tinted glass bottle or a tin. Exposure to light and heat will destroy an oil’s flavor, which is why you should avoid anything sold in a clear container, especially a plastic one. At home, stow your oil in a cabinet away from the stove.
• “Extra virgin” on the label. Purified and refined oils, labeled simply “olive oil” or “pure olive oil,” are often made with lower-quality, processed oils that have little taste. Extra-virgin oils undergo minimal processing, so their flavor and aroma molecules remain intact.
• A harvest or best-by date on the label. Oil does not improve with age. Look for a date stamp to make sure you are not buying anything more than two years old.

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