food history

  • The continuing conversation about the ‘food desert’

    Further thoughts re the generous and thoughtful responses to my ‘food desert’ post. I do very much understand that individuals have little/no control over headers, headlines, or photos used in media. As a performer for many years I became used…

  • Rejecting the ‘food desert’ concept

    In response to FLAVOR MAGAZINE, June/July 2009 article titled Not Quite What I Was Looking For under the page header 'in the food desert."  Paul Ryan's description of his personal journey from home gardener to community gardener was timely.  It was…

  • Food production: Local and Global

    After reading, it seems, so many of the current books on local, sustainable, and responsible farming, gardening, and eating I have at last been introduced to an author who articulates a nuanced mid-ground between the ideals of the locavore movement…