Tag: Food Justice
Guest/Crystal: A Home for Fat Tuesday
Thank you to Crystal, our Guest Contributor! Happy Mardi Gras! Its origins have something to do with squeezing in as much revelry and indulgence as possible before Lent or Ash Wednesday or something…eh, look it up on Wikipedia. Of course, the place (in the US) to be on this holiday is N’awlins, home to the [...]
When Half the Sky Goes Hungry
Source: eCrater “I’m Popeye the Sailor Man I live in a frying pan I turn on the gas And burn off my…” Oh wait, sorry, that was the naughty playground version. Most of us remember Popeye and his loyal use of spinach in lieu of modern day protein shakes to pump up his famous forearms [...]
Seeing Purple: Purple Potatoes and TV with a Mission
One of my favorite books as a child (and still is today) is Harold and the Purple Crayon. For those of you who are not familiar, it’s the story by Crockett Johnson of little Harold who uses his purple crayon to draw his adventures – it’s a lovely story about imagination, creativity, and making possibilities [...]
Climbing Kathmandu
One of my dreams is to take the Transiberian Railway one day. I was even once told by an international education “expert” that it would be a good idea to take the Transiberian Railroad to Nepal. Well, I didn’t take the Transiberia to Nepal…I had to fly via India because well, the Transiberian Railway runs [...]
Thanks to Quality Friends & Quality Ingredients
Thanks to all who have shared your Thanksgiving meals! Now that it’s over and I have successfully gained several pounds, I thought I would share with my little Thanksgiving and how grateful I am not only for good friends, but also for companies that make quality ingredients free from hydrogenated oils and industrial processing. Cake [...]
The Indian in the Cupboard
How many of you remembering making those “Indian headdresses” and “Pilgrim hats” out of construction paper to celebrate the “first” Thanksgiving? It seemed rather simple. A project that taught us how all the Indians and the Pilgrims got together and became friends. That was history. Pilgrims are history. Indians are history. What little kids often [...]
Insecurity
As many of you know, I had spent much of this past year working in India. The food in India is splendid. SPLENDID. But that’s because I got to eat. In the minds of many Americans, India is the exotic land of Slumdog Millionaire, Bollywood dancers, and romantic ashrams of Eat, Pray, Love lore. Along [...]
World Food Day 2009!
Today is World Food Day! Topic for the 26th annual day is: Global Food Crisis: Opportunities, Responsibilities and Solutions. Join a live Teleconference information for today from noon to 3:00PM EST.
Planting the SEEDS
If you recall several months ago (when I was still learning how a blog works, so forgive the sad little photos), I volunteered at the Hogan’s Magnolia View Farm for the Eastern Triangle Farm Tour. Several weeks ago, I did it again. This time I volunteered at SEEDS in Durham, NC, a wonderful non-profit that [...]
Blog Action Day 2009: My Ice Cream is Melting
It’s Blog Action Day 2009: Climate Change! “You just cannot be a meat-eating environmentalist.” According to Matt Prescott, manager of vegan campaigns for PETA, it is inherently contradictory to eat meat and care about the environment. Is this true? Well, according to the FAO, the livestock business makes more greenhouse gas emissions that any other [...]
