I almost didn’t write a review of Barbara Kingsolver’s Animal, Vegetable, Miracle because 1) it’s so last year, and 2) you should just blow off reading this review and go get the book. But it also feels odd to not review what, for me, has become a foundation of my understanding of local food, even if…
Monthly Archives: April 2010
Sustainable Farming, Foie Gras & A Little Bit of Heart
Since it’s Wednesday (and sometimes I do this on Wednesdays), I thought I’d share a great TED video in which chef and scholar Dan Barber gives us a glimpse of a new/old kind of sustainable farming. It’s definitely worth watching, even if you’re not a foodie. And even if foie gras makes you go EW. …
How Our Stories Serve Us
Humans are storytellers. We just are. We tell stories about our past, our families, our history. We tell stories about people we’ve met and people we haven’t met. We tell stories about people who never existed at all. We tell stories about everything. Most importantly, we tell stories about our present and, woven within them,…
We Pause For Some Politics…
I feel like I spent a lot of time thinking (and writing) about the personal side of the picture – One Small Change moments, food moments, gardening moments. And some other part of my brain spends a lot of time on sustainability issues from a big-picture, theoretical, and scientific standpoint. The first, I think, is…
Monthly Archives: April 2010
Book Review – Animal, Vegetable, Miracle
I almost didn’t write a review of Barbara Kingsolver’s Animal, Vegetable, Miracle because 1) it’s so last year, and 2) you should just blow off reading this review and go get the book. But it also feels odd to not review what, for me, has become a foundation of my understanding of local food, even if…
Sustainable Farming, Foie Gras & A Little Bit of Heart
Since it’s Wednesday (and sometimes I do this on Wednesdays), I thought I’d share a great TED video in which chef and scholar Dan Barber gives us a glimpse of a new/old kind of sustainable farming. It’s definitely worth watching, even if you’re not a foodie. And even if foie gras makes you go EW. …
How Our Stories Serve Us
Humans are storytellers. We just are. We tell stories about our past, our families, our history. We tell stories about people we’ve met and people we haven’t met. We tell stories about people who never existed at all. We tell stories about everything. Most importantly, we tell stories about our present and, woven within them,…
We Pause For Some Politics…
I feel like I spent a lot of time thinking (and writing) about the personal side of the picture – One Small Change moments, food moments, gardening moments. And some other part of my brain spends a lot of time on sustainability issues from a big-picture, theoretical, and scientific standpoint. The first, I think, is…
