An organic apple from New Zealand or a conventionally-grown apple from a nearby orchard. Which is the smarter choice?

Find out sumptuous secrets and what to look for from your most of ordinary vegetable. Patrica Fine lays it out easy about what you need to know about produce.

Prepare for a winter full of summery goodness.

Eco-living can be economical, fun, and functional in the LIME Original Series, Simply Green with Danny Seo. It’s a hip and modern take on the classic reuse, reduce, recycle rules, with simple but stylish ideas for going green!

Being susceptible to the appeal of adventure eating, I've embraced the consumption of oddities of brows both high and low in places across the globe. I've had foie gras in some of New York's finest restaurants, calf fries in Fort Worth, and street food in Hanoi, and never has my cast-iron stomach failed me. So as I shivered through gut-wrenching pain under a heavy blanket in a sweltering apartment in Hong Kong, my sense of betrayal was plaintive and vast. Even worse, I suffered at my own hands: I knew there was something amiss with the Chinese scallions I sliced into my tuna salad, but my better instincts abandoned me. Fortunately, like most sufferers of food poisoning, I was back in the saddle in a day or two, but I did have some lingering questions: would I have gotten sick if I'd spent another HKD $10 (about USD $1.30) for Japanese or Australian scallions? How does one go about trying to buy healthy and sustainably-produced fruits and vegetables in an unfamiliar landscape?

My friend Karen is a brilliant scholar of medieval literature, but she’s living in the dark ages when it comes to good nutrition. Often the sole occupants of her fridge are Little Schoolboy cookies and cans of Coca-Cola. Her pantry staples? Hot cocoa mix and Annie Chung noodles.

Karen’s excuse for not buying more fruits and vegetables is that they invariably spoil before she gets around to eating them.

Alien invasions are a bad thing, as a general rule. Our notoriously porous borders cause all kinds of problems for the U.S., from aspiring terrorists who slip in to form sleeper cells to illegal immigrants whose cheap labor costs us plenty in the long run.

Plus, our lax borders make CNN’s apoplectic populist Lou Dobbs play like a broken record with his “Broken Borders” segments, which take precious air time away from my favorite Dobbs refrains: “Exporting America,” “Assault on the Middle Class,” and “Red Star Rising.”