Featured Articles: Food Politics
Food politics featured articles that may or may not include one of our recipes
Eating Animals: A Choice
Until recently, I’ve considered myself to be an omnivore by biological default. In other words, I’ve hardly considered my omnivore status as a choice. My eating meat (and everything else) began as a seemingly natural custom of my farming childhood. We bought cattle, we raised cattle, we sold cattle, and they were returned to us [...]
Real Good Food: Food sharing collaborations for better food and stronger communities
Welcome to our guest contributor, Justine Williams! Justine is a sociocultural anthropologist who studies social and economic justice, particularly as it relates to food and agriculture. We are excited to hear her work bettering our communities with Real Good Food! Learn how to support these efforts. By Justine Williams A couple years ago, Devin McIntire [...]
What the Frack?
I first heard about fracking for gas three weeks ago during a craft afternoon at a friend’s house in the north part of County Antrim. When I first overheard Mary mentioning to my mother that she had to see this documentary about fracking , my first thought was “how cool, I never knew Mary was [...]
Wine and Brain Testing: My Trip to Eurogusto
“It’s sublime,” the French woman beside me uttered into the microphone. “I haven’t eaten brains so well prepared since I was a little girl. It’s a distinct experience. What else can you say?” Blinking at the lightly poached “cervelle” (French for “brain”) sitting on the paper plate in front of me, my mind was full [...]
Food Sovereignty: Tutu Caribou Stew
It is no secret that wealth inequality exists around the world, and so exists a robust international development industry to address these gaps. Certainly, models of development have shifted and changed through the years, but there is still support for monoculture crop farming and food distribution under the guise of globalization and the argument that [...]
Wake Up, People: Mushroom Egg Bake
On Friday, I attended the dinner of the 26th Annual Sustainable Agriculture Conference held by the Carolina Farm Stewardship Association. During a time when all I seem to see on TV are celebrities getting married or divorced – all on heavily-sponsored reality shows, of course – I was amazed at the 1,200 people there [...]
What’s Really Scary – Apathy: Apple-Pumpkin-Ginger Soup
For those of you in the United States, Happy Halloween! What’s in store tonight? Ghoulish gummies? Mummified marshallows? Creepy chocolates? You know what’s scarier than lurching zombies and cackling witches? Apathy. By now, many of you know about the horrific, sad story of two-year old Yueyue, who died after sustaining injuries from a hit-and-run and [...]
Blog Action Day 2011: I’m Mad as Hell
Two years, we joined with the world to raise awareness on one shared topic on Blog Action Day. In 2009, it was Climate Change, in 2010, it was Water. Each year, we brought it back to what Zomppa is about: food. Why? If you have been reading us for a while, you know that here [...]
When There’s Little Difference Between a Christmas Tree and a Sweet Potato
My family’s former dairy farm in western North Carolina has experienced several changes over the past fifteen years: cattle have come and gone, fences have been torn down and rebuilt, and former milking parlors are now storage for various non-dairy related farm equipment. The most drastic of these changes though is visible in the pastures; [...]
Detour from the Road of Status Quo: The Simplicity of Frank Food
I’m sure those of you who live, breathe, and eat food like I do heard about the little war of words between Anthony Bourdain and Paula Deen – needless to say, it didn’t help the perception of elitism of those who pay close attention to what they eat. Frank Bruni and Jane Black entered into [...]
