The Paperback of Blessing the Hands has arrived
I’m happy to present to you this lighter, easier on the pocketbook version with a subtitle I like a lot more: Lessons from a 10-Mile Diet.
A bessing for the hands that feed us – for Thanksgiving
Let’s, on this Thanksgiving, reflect on whose hands we are blessing as we sit down to a meal. Perhaps we start with the hands of God or Gaia or the God of your Understanding as they say in AA. Just imagine. The amazing marriage of...
The Local Food Challenge wind up
Halloween, 2014 Our first 10-Day Local Food Challenge comes to an official end today – though any day is a good day for a personal local food challenge. Everyone’s experience this month counts. Those who did it. Those who started and...
“Local” heading up the influence chain
Watch out team! I’m swimming in inspiration at Terra Madre. Here’s what I posted on the Food Day website (in the middle of the night because I’m so full). What do you think of it? I am at Terra Madre in Italy – a great...
For the love of food
How can you not love food when in Italy, especially when you are at Terra Madre? But something different is happening to me. Something less utilitarian. I’m “feeling” the flavors, because I am among people with reverence for...
Terra Madre: Opening Ceremony
Terra Madre is the biannual Slow Food Conference to build and connect the movements for good, clean and fair food … and I’m here for the first time. I consider it a pilgrimage of sorts, paying homage to the millions of people around...
10-Day Local Food Challenge Update: 9/16
“A local eating challenge is a crash course in reconnection, putting us back in touch with the people who produce our food, the landscapes we live in, and even our own bodies. It is philosophy and politics lived out loud, a delicious demand...
Tada! 10-Day Local Food Challenge Begins
Greetings! Since Blessing the Hands that Feed Us came out in January, I’ve gone from author to activist with a passion for restoring regional food systems so we-the-eaters can have more fresh, local food and our food producers can have more...
What’s in your 100-mile eating circle?
Ready Set Eat! Coming soon a game we can play together: the 10-Day/100 mile Local Food Challenge. I’ll post the game plan, mini-manual and helpful tools by the end of August. Any 10-days in September through November you can join in. For...
Relational Eating: Vicki Robin at TEDxSeattle
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=idsd7T-KVtk
Hope after all – WOW – Whidbey Island 6/12
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WCPBxNuTzwM
Vicki reading from BTH @ Readers Books – 2014 book tour
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=41QjdPD2bBE