It’s been a busy week, with three new pieces posting in Civil Eats, NPR’s The Salt, and Sierra magazine. You can read them hereAnd hereAnd here. On a personal note, I’d like to encourage everyone who’s reading this to purchase a reusable water bottle. As you’ll intuit from my article for Sierra, single-use plastic bottles have horrific consequences for the environment. Switching to reusables is easy, cheap, and gives you major green bragging rights.