CSA Week 3: Taking it Easy
This week we got: red butter lettuce, spinach, spring onions, fully grown bok choi (which looks a lot more like some kind of giant cabbage/chard hybrid than the pretty tulip-like bok […]
Category Archives: Food in the City
CSA Week 2: Grazing
This week we got: lettuce (romaine, I think), spinach, spring onions, sweet potatoes, chard, mustard greens, and bok choi. We get an Email every weekend that tells us what to expect […]
CSA Week 1: Lettuce eat
We received our first box on May 1st, which is early for any growing season. It’s been a cold spring, which the farmer noted in his weekly Email: at this […]
Why I CSA
Today my neighbor and I picked up the first box of our fourth season of community supported agriculture, also known as CSA or a farmshare. Because I’ve been participating in […]
Confessions of a kalevangelist
I have a new piece up at Table Matters about class, cultural capital, and kale. It was an extremely personal piece for me to write–although I only briefly mention my […]
Philosophy of a Philly Foodie
Let’s get some assumptions out of the way, shall we? You don’t have to eat expensively to eat healthy food. You don’t have to eat expensively to eat delicious food. […]
Lean and sinewy: Imagining writing as a fit body
In A Moveable Feast, the chapter “Birth of a New School” begins with Hemingway-as-narrator evoking the coolness and the cleanness of a café early in the morning, a seemingly pure […]
The Future of Food
Or rather, the present: all of these innovations of technology and urban design are happening now, although they are still under development and, in many cases, need creative minds and […]
Fried chicken for every family and other myths of Southern food
[Cross-posted at Flyover Feminism, an excellent blog for activists in the middle states and other areas often overlooked by major media.] It happened again. I was reading an otherwise perfectly […]
Two food artists you can see for yourself
These two artists recently popped up in my feed reader (no pun intended), and I was struck that for each, an intent to make the art accessible to the public is built into […]
