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Not Oprah’s Book Club: Farm City
Tweet I’m still on my food politics book kick, this time thanks to Heather and her holiday gift. Thanks Heather! Novella Carpenter’s book, Farm City: The Education of an Urban Farmer, is a definite departure from the more political books about food. Rather than focus on the broken system of industrial agriculture, she focuses on [...]
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Not Oprah’s Book Club: Eating Animals
Tweet For those who’ve been paying attention to my writing about food politics, I’ve slowly made my way through the concepts of eating locally, to volunteering on an organic farm, to self-canning and preserving. A lot of my changing politics around food have been motivated by books I’ve read on the topic. Michael Pollan’s Omnivore’s [...]
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Last day of Food Desert Awareness Month
TweetToday is the last day of Food Desert Awareness Month, hosted by the National Center for Public Awareness. Food Desert defined: A food desert is a large geographic area with no or distant grocery stores. Often, food deserts have an imbalance of food choice, meaning more nearby fringe food such as fast food, convenience stores, [...]
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Clinton Global Initiative: Hillary Clinton on Food Security
TweetI have had the opportunity to see a lot of really powerful speakers at the Clinton Global Initiative (CGI) Annual Meeting. Talk about internalized patriarchy: I was most excited to see Presidents Obama and Clinton speak, and though I was excited to see Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, she was not at the top of [...]
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Butch Bakery: It’s the camo that makes them manly