Tag Archives: Food
Feminist adventures in food preservation
Tweet This weekend, my friend Amber and I (with a guest appearance by my housemate Carolyn) tried our hand at canning for the first time. It was my first time canning anything, and Amber’s first time canning tomatoes (she’s made jams before). We also made refrigerator pickles using this recipe(thanks Ann!). Food is becoming a [...]
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The political garden revisited
TweetThe political garden is not a new thing. If you look back to the history of Victory Garden’s during wartime, food production has always played a role in our political system. The political garden is being revisited once again, as rising rates of obesity, diabetes and health care costs are once again forcing some of [...]
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New Leaf Organic Farm
Tweet The last two weeks I spent driving through Vermont, Montreal and Maine. The first week of it, I worked on an organic farm in Vermont through a program called WWOOF. Some of you may know I have a burgeoning interest in food politics and spending some time on a farm seemed like a logical [...]
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Personal is Political: On what I eat
Tweet I posted a quick link a few weeks back to the new documentary Food Inc. I finally got to see it last week. In one word, it left me nauseated. Ever since reading Michael Pollan’s book The Omnivore’s Dilemma a few years back, I became much more interested in the politics of food. It [...]
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Michelle Obama inaugurates new White House farmers market