In Edible Brooklyn: Snug Harbor
Jonathan Wilson stares down into one of the large white coolers in the back of the van he’s just parked. It’s early evening, later than usual for …
Continue Reading ...Public Health: Profile of Mary Bassett
There it was on New York magazine’s “approval matrix”: a key piece of public health news ranked as only slightly less despicable than the jailing of journalists …
Continue Reading ...In Psychology Today: (Agri) culture Shock
Think the farm-to-table movement is hot? The Ivy-League-to-farm movement is even hotter—although it often takes time for parents to warm to the idea.
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In the blog: French Revolution
Today I set out to storm the Bastille. Actually, I set out to find a food market in the neighborhood where the famous fort-turned-prison-turned-rallying-cry-for-freedom once stood. For …
Continue Reading ...In Slate: Is it a garden or a farm?
The Urban Agriculture Conference’s Manhattan farm tour—as in the central borough of New York City, not Manhattan, Kan.—called into question everything I knew …
Continue Reading ...In Person: at Davidson College
On Friday, Nov. 15, join me at Davidson College in North Carolina for my lunchtime talk “From fields to fame: why farming is suddenly cool.”
Hosted by the …
On Television: The Year of the Farmer
On Super Bowl Sunday, Dodge debuted its ad “So God Made a Farmer” and ignited a debate over just who, exactly, the American farmer is today. A …
Continue Reading ...In the Blog: On Reading Food Labels
Everytime I visit Indiana and enter my mother’s kitchen I cannot stop myself. I do what I do everywhere: I read food labels. My goodness, what an …
Continue Reading ...In Slate: Who is the Modern Farmer?
A new magazine hit newsstands last week, and, given the state of print media, that fact alone is notable. But the launch of this magazine also reflects …
Continue Reading ...On Books: Reading Tamar Adler
It’s one thing for a vegetarian to go off the wagon on occasion. It’s another thing for a vegetarian to suddenly decide to cook a shoulder of …
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