Food + Culture

This piece ran on CivilEats.com on Oct. 20th.  The food system, like every other sphere of life in America, has been shaped by...

Paid maternity leave is still a rarity, but some forward-thinking companies are setting the bar {This story was published by SevenFifty...

A new documentary chronicles the efforts of wheat farmers and urban gardeners as they shift to sustainable farming.  {This story ran on...

When  Cattail Creek Lamb  owner John Neumeister was younger, he would devote one day per week to making the 110-mile drive from his ranch...

This story appeared on Civil Eats on August 2nd.  In the late spring of 2014, Janaki Jagannath and her colleagues had left a community...

In late February, I read an Op-Ed by Nicholas Kristof called " Trump Voters are Not the Enemy" that really resonated for me. Like...

A few weeks ago, wine writer  Katherine Cole  invited me to be a panelist on her new podcast, the Four Top. On the podcast, which just won a James Beard media award, Katherine and three other food-world insiders (usually members of the media) talk about hot-button topics in the food and beverage culture. For this episode , Peter Platt of Andina restaurant, OPB reporter Roxy de La Torre, and I discussed Sanctuary Restaurants, undocumented immigrants in the restaurant industry,

I've been traveling to Cabo for years with my mom and step-dad and every time we go, it seems, there are more restaurants touting their...

I'm pretty excited about my first story in Food & Wine , about Dana Frank's beguiling new natural-wine-focused restaurant, Dame.  Reporting this meant I got to know the Oregon winemakers who are on the menu at Dame, as well as their wines. Five of the winemakers were at the dinner: Kelley Fox (of Kelley Fox Wines), Dan Rinke (Johan), Chad Stocks (Minimus and Omero), Steven Thompson (Analemma), and Scott Frank (Bow & Arrow), Dana's husband.   Frank pouring wine from a banquett

This explainer-style piece on grass-fed dairy was published in Organic Life last month but with all my travels this winter, I forgot to...

I wrote this Power Lunch for Oregon Business Magazine in March 2017.   Headwaters 1001 Southwest Broadway Portland, Oregon...

This story appeared on Civil Eats on January 20th. (And was later published on Grub Street  as well.) When a group of restaurant owners...

the sexy rooftop bar and jacuzzi at Hotel El Ganzo  I go to Cabo practically every winter, thanks to my mom and her husband who own a time share (or two!) down there. Over the years, I've noticed a welcome trend: garish bars are being replaced by stylish  boîtes that—instead of neon blue cocktails—serve wines from Valle de Guadalupe. Raucous eateries have given way to upscale restaurants set on organic farms. Indie bands play on rooftop bars. There's even a farmers' market a

It’s a Wednesday night in July at Ava Gene ’s on Southeast Division Street in Portland, and the dining room is pulsing with energy....

A few months ago, I attended a talk at a Food as Medicine conference in Portland that inspired this article for Organic Life . As I...

This story originally appeared on Civil Eats on August 18th.  Claw, who is from Burma, fries up veggies for a pad thai  It’s 10:00...

I've been wanting to write about Ecotrust's the Redd on Salmon ever since VP of Food and Farming Amanda Oborne explained the concept to...

“We wouldn’t be caught dead with a farmed fish,” says Anderson.

I wrote this Power Lunch for Oregon Business in July 2016.   Syun Izakaya 209 NE Lincoln St., Hillsboro, OR 97124  503-640-3131 ...

A version of this story is in the summer issue of Modern Farmer.  Believe it or not, Haiti was once the largest coffee producer in the...