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Over a decade ago, while filmmaker Laura Dunn was making her first feature documentary, “ The Unforeseen ,” farmer and poet Wendell Berry...

{Note: this story was written before both Mario Batali and Andrew Friedman were accused of chronic sexual harassment and assault by...

This story was published on NBC's Better on Nov. 17th.  Bartending might seem like a fun, carefree job — how stressful could it be to...

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...

When consumers hear the term private-label wines, they may envision Trader Joe’s Two-Buck Chuck or Costco’s Kirkland Signature brand,...

I wrote this piece about alcoholism in the wine, beer, and spirits industry for a new wine industry publication called SevenFifty Daily....

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

When Agnes Nyinawumuntu began her career as a coffee farmer two decades ago, she picked coffee “cherries" indiscriminately and with...

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,

A glass of Frappato and the menu at Osteria Savio Volpe  A decade ago, the east Vancouver neighborhood now known as Fraserhood was mostly...

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...

When my editor at Organic Life asked me to write a piece about childhood vaccines , I had no idea how controversial the subject still...

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...