Food + Culture

In the current issue of Oregon Business Magazine, I write about Duncan Berry, the CEO of Fish People , a new Oregon-based seafood...

Responses to the recent Stanford University organic study have been all over the map. Some commentators, such as Marion Nestle , wrote...

Whenever you start to feel that our country—not to mention our planet—is going to hell in a handbasket (as my great aunt Holly used to...

my friend's son can't contain his excitement at Café Besalu For the past year or so, I've had the pleasure of getting to know Ballard,...

When I moved to Portland two years ago, I was awed by the lush and beautifully-landscaped gardens in my neighborhood of Sunnyside....

You hear a lot of talk in the sustainable food movement these days about how each of us needs to "vote with our fork." The notion is that...

Inextricably bound up with M.F.K. Fisher’s lifelong passion for food was the pleasure she took from sipping and serving a simple house wine, a crisp aperitif or a prickly, delicious glass of Champagne. In “M.F.K. Fisher: Musings on Wine and other Libations” (Sterling Epicure; $19), Fisher’s biographer, Anne Zimmerman, gathers all of the eminent food writer’s essays on drink under one beautifully designed cover. Some of these gems have been plucked from well-known collections,

Economist Tyler Cowen calls himself an “everyday foodie,” and his new book, “An Economist Gets Lunch,” is aimed at people like him. So...

I shouldn't have been surprised by how many fabulous restaurants Mount Holyoke women run—from New York's La Lunchonette to the...

Tracie McMillan grew up on Tuna Helper and Ortega Taco Dinners and was raised to believe that farm-fresh, home-cooked food was for...

There are dozens if not hundreds of organizations across the U.S. working to improve the quality of cafeteria food at public schools. But...

After Novella Carpenter’s critically acclaimed memoir Farm City: The Education of an Urban Farmer came out, she and friend Willow...

If you're paying attention to the urban agriculture scene in this country, you've no doubt read about Detroit—how its residents are...

When he was seven years old, Malik Yakini, inspired by his grandfather, planted his own backyard garden in Detroit, seeding it with...

Home economics, which was a fixture in secondary schools throughout the 1950s and 1960s, has all but vanished today, but there is a steady rallying cry from pediatricians, nutrition educators, and food justice activists to bring it back. Helen Zoe Veit, an assistant professor of history at Michigan State, recently wrote an impassioned Op-Ed in the New York Times in which she championed home ec and asked, “What if the government put the tools of obesity prevention in the hands

When I heard Cory Carman speak at Ecotrust's food hub conference last spring, I knew I had to write about her. Her story, of taking over her family's ranch out in eastern Oregon and converting it to a 100% grass-fed operation, interested me for at least three reasons. First, ever since reading Michael Pollan's the Omnivore's Dilemma , I've been convinced of the environmental and nutritional superiority of grass-finished beef. (That is, beef that hasn't been fed corn for the

When you hear the words Slow Food , do you conjure up a multi-course locavore dinner with wine pairings?  If so, think again. Over the...

When you hear the words Slow Food , do you conjure up a multi-course locavore dinner with wine pairings?  If so, think again. Over the...

This year, the Portland Pie Off was practically in my own backyard—the lovely Laurelhurst Park. How could I resist? Read more about it here, at T: Travel 's the Moment. A pie judge surveys the contestants at Portland’s fifth annual Pie Off. [Photo: Don McIntosh] Trying to locate this year’s fifth annual Pie Off in Laurelhurst Park in Portland, Ore., was like a sketch from the TV show “Portlandia”: first you had to pass by what was billed (in chalk on the asphalt path) as an

The surprise darling of the Community Food Security Coalition conference last May was a little-known city councilman from Cleveland. He...