Articles written by Bonnie Azab Powell

For Labor Day: Farmworkers’ Rights Still in the Toilet

By • on September 5, 2011

Cross-posted from the TEDxFruitvale blog. (Why? Read

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The Ethicurean lives! An update, in which I come out of my corporate closet

By • on September 2, 2011

Tap, tap. Is this thing on? Does it still work? Wait, let me clear away the cobwebs from the microphone. Is that better? Can you hear me now? All five

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For when you Karo too much: In honor of MLK, Jr. Day, my great-grandmother’s pecan pie recipe

By • on January 17, 2011

Martin Luther King, Jr. was a big fan of pie, supposedly. (Who isn't?) A few years ago, Austin, Tex. artist Luanne Stovall was baking a buttermilk one

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Massive gingerbread house recall a reminder that food safety starts in the gut

By • on December 28, 2010

Grist (where I am the food editor) just got a

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Thanks, Jevons paradox! On why I won’t be replacing my spare fridge

By • on December 22, 2010

A few weeks ago, my spare side-by-side fridge/freezer up and died. I was (and remain) pissed about this. It's a fancy-pants Samsung, about four years

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An artisanal plea from a fed-up foodie

By • on October 28, 2010

When you find me behind bars, locked up for a fit of lexical rage, please know that it was granola that pushed me over the edge. Not just any granola:

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Grow vacancies: Gene Fredericks is thinking inside the city’s big box

By • on September 1, 2010

They're the bane of urban and suburban areas alike:

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The ‘femivore’: New breed of feminist, or frontier throwback?

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Ethicurean nominated for Treehugger Best of Green award!

The Ethicurean has been nominated for a TreeHugger.com Best of Green award,

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