Food + Culture

This Field Note appears in the Design section of Modern Farmer (pg. 64): Anna Cohen's lipstick red Charlie Dress, made of Oregon wool...

This story originally appeared in Oregon Business Magazine In case you hadn’t noticed, our food cart scene here in Portland is booming....

My latest story for Civil Eats' Good Food Vanguard series: Amy Kleinman had never had a job with lasting appeal. Most recently,...

This story originally appeared on Civil Eats, kicking off their new series the Good Food Vanguard . Read more of my Civil Eats stories...

This story originally appeared in Oregon Business Magazine When the historic Lostine Tavern closed in January 2013, residents of the...

This story originally appeared in Oregon Business Magazine It may be obvious, but most farmers don’t make a lot of money. According to...

This story first appeared on CivilEats last Friday. That very day, Michelle Obama announced a new phase of Let's Move! that will...

I moderated "Turning Food Deserts into Oases of Good Food" at the 2014 IACP conference. Whether you call them food deserts or food...

When Chuck Eggert founded Pacific Foods in 1987, the health food movement was still an off shoot of the ‘70s hippie culture. Today — with...

I moderated a panel called "Plate and Principles" for the 14th annual Farmer-Chef Connection . On the panel were (from left to right): Chapel Hill, North Carolina chef Andrea Reusing, and Portland chefs Aaron Dionne, Greg Higgins, Jason French, and Joshua McFadden.  That's me on the right!

This is my second post as food & ag blogger at Oregon Business Magazine . Recently, I joined a friend for appetizers at Ava Gene’s,...

This is the first in a series of columns for Oregon Business Magazine , where I'm now the food and agriculture blogger. (It was...

Biwa owners Gabe Rosen and Kina Voelz discuss their new "Health & Wellness" surcharge Last week, Civil Eats published my story on...

Seventeen years ago, on a whim, Brian and Catherine Faris bought a farmhouse in a tiny, stone-walled town in the Italian region of...

Most farmers would rather be knee-deep in dirt than rustling up business with school food buyers and James Beard-award-winning chefs....

Students at West Tisbury School on Martha's Vineyard get fish chowder and fresh veggies (Photo by Elizabeth Cecil) School cafeteria food...

Cultivating Profit. Oyster farming is a tricky business — you can’t wantonly meet demand or you won’t have any oysters left to sell. And...

In the October issue of O: the Oprah Magazine , I write about food justice rapper DJ CaveM , who wants to make OGs—organic gardeners—out...

Seed-saving: Chefs like Sarah Schafer do it, too   (photo by Kirk Jones) Sarah Schafer , the chef at Portland, OR's Irving Street...

The cows at Straus Family Creamery, grazing on Tomales Bay, California My love of milk has only increased since I was an infant, which...