In improv theater we have a game called: What is this? For example, What is this? Yes of course it is a Trader Joe’s plastic tub for chocolate chip cookies. But what else is it? A container for compostable veggie scraps. An under-sink container for …
At the Global Earth Repair Conference May 3-5 I experienced a paradigm shift in the structure of my thinking. I learned a few new things, but mostly it rearranged what I know into a new pattern. Grief about the inevitability of decline, not just of humans …
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.
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 …
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 stopped. Those who meant …
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 …
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 food. For the thousands of different types …
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 the world …
“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 for a …
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 fresh money in their …
