When I got home late last night, Tricia had put my first food in my fridge. Talk about service. And a loving note on my counter. I woke full of curiosty. How will this go? The first challenge out of the gate: milk for tea. …
Starting tonight and running through publication of Blessing the Hands that Feed Us, I am re-posting my daily blog from the 10-mile diet. Those of you who have subscribed to this blog will get it every morning in your Inbox. Others may find it on …
One day last month a friend sent 4 photos electronically, asking my opinion on which would best illustrate an article about the new local food movement. I kept flipping between them, wondering what was wrong. A bowl of oatmeal lit like a Vermeer. A rustic …
What is it, really, that I am up to with my current work? Don’t you ask that yourself? Where is this leading me? What has me so in its grip? Relational eating is one part – the personal, spiritual, embodied, earthy self-as-eater. Community food systems, …
The holidays are upon us. Will you gather with family for a traditional meal? Do you have any idea where the food on your holiday table is right now on its long journey from farm to fork? Most of the year we can ignore the …
I think I’m starting to write a PhD dissertation posing as a book tour stomp speech. My emerging platform is 50/50/500 from the research for my book, Blessing the Hands that Feed Us, summarized in a sentence in my TEDxSeattle talk. The assertion is that …
I’m now exploring the “local food” to “relational eating” shift. Local food is a thing, albeit a beautiful thing. Relational eating is connecting to the life of your community through food – and your community includes farmers AND farms and soils and forests and microorganisms …
I already get the question: “Do you still ‘do it’”? They mean 10-mile eating. Like in the old days: “Do you still live on under $1000 a month”? Well, no to both. But what’s changed since B10MD (before 10-mile diet) is what i think is …
French women, they day, stay thin because they only eat 50% of what we eat. A slither rather than a slice. A pat instead of a slather. Frugalistas long ago discovered the 50% solution. Use half until you reach just enough. Half the shampoo. Half …
Folks, I just made up this acronym for wise food choices. OWL. Organic, Whole, Local. I think it’s a winner. You? To elaborate… Think OWL for wise food choices A little boy asked his dad how the lights go on. He got a lecture on …