Food + Culture

Last Friday, April 26th, Bon Appetit published my post, which they entitled "Yes, You Can Feed a Family of 3 All Organic On a Food...

My colleague Devavani Chatterjea invited me to speak at Macalaster's Community and Global Health Seminar. My lecture, on "Good Food for All: Why Farm-Fresh, Organic Food is anything but Elitist," came out of research I'd been doing for a potential book project on the topic of food justice.

Walnut Levain from Runner & Stone , Brooklyn, NYC (Credit: Mayumi Kasuga) BonAppetit.com=">BonAppetit.com" on="</a>on" April="April"...

Purple kale from the PSU farmers' market, ready to be blanched We've both rallied for the final week of our challenge —planning meals...

In “ Salt Sugar Fat, " investigative reporter Michael Moss shows how executives and food scientists at Coca-Cola, Kraft, Frito-Lay and...

Radishes in several hues: $2 a bunch or 3 bunches for $5 After my foray to the PSU farmers' market yesterday, we have $66.91 remaining...

The organic food stamp challenge has been, well, a challenge lately. It's not that we've run out of money—yet. But because we went to...

I'm in the "power issue!" Well, at least my article is. In the March issue of Vogue , I investigate the claims that Dr. William Davis makes in his best-selling book Wheat Belly . Is wheat really a "perfect chronic poison?" Does whole wheat bread spike your blood sugar more than table sugar? And why does it seem that everyone has either celiac disease or gluten intolerance?  Davis's patients shed pounds—and improve their health—on his radical wheat-free diet. But should this c

This week I've made a concerted effort to plan meals around the veggies I got at the farmers' market on Saturday. On Monday, I made a...

Yesterday morning, I took the bus downtown to shop at the winter farmers' market . Because we're sticking to a food stamp budget, I...

Looking back at the first week-and-a-half of our organic food stamp challenge , three meals stand out in my mind. The first, the most...

Every year, my partner Don and I give up something for Lent, even though neither of us is particularly religious. Two years ago, it was...

The grapes used in Big Table Farm's Wirtz Pinot Gris sit on skins for up to 10 days. The result? A full-bodied and luscious wine that's...

I did this interview with food world leader Debra Eschmeyer of FoodCorps back in 2011 for The Faster Times (RIP).  I found it on...

Fresh organic vegetables for sale at Flora Farm When I was in Mexico this past May reporting a story on Todos Santos , I kept hearing...

New York Times columnist Roger Cohen says that organic food is elitist and assumes that the only people who demand healthy,...

I was proud to be a part of Whole Living's beautifully-produced Food Visionaries package, in their penultimate issue. THE VISIONARIES...

How a community activist grew a patch of dirt into something truly worth toasting.

The poster outside Rockwood Voices for Food Justice's Offices, in Gresham, OR New York Times columnist Roger Cohen says that organic...

The roof deck at Hotel Casa Tota Todos Santos, 45-minutes north of Cabo on the Pacific coast of Mexico’s Baja Peninsula, has long been...