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For Labor Day: Farmworkers’ Rights Still in the Toilet
Cross-posted from the TEDxFruitvale blog. (Why? Read this.) Today is Labor Day, a time when most Americans think of
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“A beautiful bowl of glory”: Rancho Gordo’s Steve Sando on beans, trade, and the tortilla project
Steve Sando (right) with Félix Martinez Gomez and his family, near Cuicatlan, Oaxaca. They grow chilhuacle chiles, essential to so many Oaxacan dishes but rare now thanks to several years of disturbed weather patterns. International trade can wreak havoc on small farmers and the global food culture:
On the trademarking of ‘urban homesteading’: The Original Best Most Complete Post on the Subject™
By Mat Rogers, Director of Agrariana Language and terminology are an integral part of the food movement. Making distinctions between agricultural practices deemed vile and reprehensible, in favor of methods moral and healthful, is a critical organizing
Life as a give-a-shit-atarian: On loving peas, beets, and Tom Robbins
Self-identification is one of those never-ending challenges that occupy humans. Even highly self-aware people seem to spend a lot of time defending
Cooking outside my comfort zone, Part 2: Fresh chickpeas
Last week, I vowed to escape my farmers market rut and cook outside my comfort zone in honor of National
Giving everyone a Grand (Opening, at Local Roots)
One year ago, the twelve of us who formed the steering committee of the Wooster Local Food Cooperative, Inc., held a public meeting at the Wayne County Public Library to share our ideas for a year-round local food market in downtown
Yes, we can… and we relish it!
Last Sunday, I started the day by catching up on email and blogs and stumbled through a link to a recent Slate article panning the art of canning. Deriding it as a "cultish hobby" loaded with "self-congratulation," author Sara Dickerman dismissed home food
Ethicurean nominated for Treehugger Best of Green award!
The Ethicurean has been nominated for a TreeHugger.com Best of Green award, in the Food & Health category. The Best of Green Awards recognize "the people, companies
Saul’s got SOLE: The Jewish deli in Berkeley evolves
When it comes to comfort food — especially comfort food that is wrapped in "tradition" like the Jewish deli — change can cause a lot of discomfort. People want what they think will make them feel better. They want
Cultivating community in Ohio: Local Roots crops get sweeter in winter
Three months have passed since my last update on Local Roots Market in Wooster, Ohio. Back then, were on the cusp of opening at last. What's happened in the meantime? A
It takes a city to save a farm: How the Bay Area food and farming community helped Soul Food Farm recover from a devastating fire
I posted previously on Ethicurean (here and here) about the September fire at Soul Food Farm, a relatively new but well-known pillar of the Bay area food scene. The
Hatching plans to save Soul Food Farm
Slow but steady growth: Building the Local Roots market in Ohio
This summer has been a cool one so far here in northeastern Ohio. The sweltering heat and humidity has so far failed to materialize, and while I personally am not complaining about being less uncomfortable, I do sometimes worry about the gardens. The mild days and cool nights are keeping tomatoes from
Food safety vs. sustainable agriculture in a scorched-earth battle
Farms are not factories: The always-good Carolyn Lochhead reports on the invisible-to-the-public price that produce farmers — and their farms — are being forced to pay in the name of food safety. "In the verdant farmland surrounding Monterey Bay, a national marine sanctuary and one of the world's
Urban homesteading in Oakland
Community supported appetites: Fun profile of the Bay Area's food-movement power couple, Anya Fernald (former director of CAFF and the woman who pulled off nothing short of a miracle at Slow Food Nation) and Renato Sardo (former head of Slow Food International, now food retailing mastermind). They've
