Rations
RSSWe are the cooks, dishwashers, and food servers who prepare and serve your food everyday on college campuses, in airports, convention centers, hotels and restaurants.
We are proud of our work and want to cook real food – with local, fresh, sustainable ingredients – not processed and frozen products. We want to speak out about the quality and safety of the food in our kitchens without fear of retaliation from employers. We want to change a food system that leaves our fellow food workers living in poverty, lacking access to healthy food for their families and at the highest risk for diet-related diseases.
Logic of Sufficiency
Rampant growth is often perceived as a good thing. This book advocates for sufficiency. Will be buying it today - the library didn’t have it.
Dishwasher Meat Smoker
Again, cheering on neighbors MacGyvering appliances.
Washing Machine Cider Press
Cheering on neighbors innovating and MacGyvering, with tasty results.
Agripedia
How cool is it that the folks at the University of Wisconsin-Madison are putting together a serious food system wiki?
Music, Food, and Poker
Sash Frere-Jones interviews Steve Albini and Bob Weston of Chicago’s Shellac about, well, music, food, and poker. Also : Steve’s cooking blog is recommended.
Click on the photo - it’ll take you to the article I borrowed it from.
Heirloom seeds or hybrids? Mostly heirlooms for me. How about you?
I’ve wondered about the connection between indie rock and indie food long before I posted the previous entry about Laura Ann. A friends says it makes sense - we all went to shows together and stayed out late when we were younger, so now we want to stay out not-so-late and have great meals with those same friends. And naturally we want to work in that business if we can.
I think there’s truth to that - we are running farmers markets, repping chefs, making jam and pizza and chocolate and more, and are in positions of relative power at food-related businesses - but there’s more to it.
The young farmers, textile artists, soapmakers, etc - I’m paying attention.
Jam, Two Ways
A former acquaintance of mine on the music scene in Chicago makes delectable jams in LA. Also? She’s a total badass. Read to see why.
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