entomophagy

exploring the edible

Sunday, June 8, 2008

Chapulines- Food Profile

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On a family vacation to Oaxaca during the summer of 2006, I was introduced to what Francisco Toledo calls Mexico’s indigenous version of fas...
Saturday, June 7, 2008

A Day of Gardening

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Last Saturday I became the proud caretaker of five broccoli starts. I picked them up from the University Farmer’s Market at a stall for the ...
Wednesday, June 4, 2008

One Man's Table Scraps, Another's Meal

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We had David Giles, a food activists with Food not Bombs, come give a presentation to our class about when food becomes waste. The three cat...
Thursday, May 29, 2008

Community Gardens

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Today, our class visited two p-patches. The first observation I made during this field trip was how many of the plants were not focused on c...
Tuesday, May 27, 2008

Slow Food

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While in college, I have grown accustomed to picking up meals on the go and spending little to no time actually preparing them. Yesterday, I...
Saturday, May 24, 2008

Chicken in a Biskit

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It was questioned today while I was camping whether I had actually had a childhood. Supposedly, there was a staple food of my friend Katie...
Tuesday, May 13, 2008

You are what you eat, and I am corn

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After diving into Michael Pollen's novel, The Omnivore's Dilemma , I was shocked to discover how vital of a food staple corn is- mor...
Saturday, May 10, 2008

Practice, practice, practice...

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I spent my first prolonged period on the UW farm yesterday. I arrived there before anyone else in the class and wander around to see all tha...
Sunday, May 4, 2008

Stigmatization of a Trash Digger

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When the term trash digger is thrown around, the image that pops into my mind is that of a bum delving around in a huge dumpster behind a gr...
Thursday, May 1, 2008

Not all Pesticides are Created Equally

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One comment passively made in the movie The Future of Food is that "nerve gas developed during World War II was slightly modified to m...
Wednesday, April 23, 2008

Tampopo: a quest for divine noodles

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The movie Tampopo , which we recently viewed in class, is rich in themes about how food and life mingle. It was intriguing to me about how ...
Sunday, April 20, 2008

Bento Making 101

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One of the many transitions I made when I came to college was my diet. After leaving the comfort of my Arizona kitchen and being transplante...
Wednesday, April 16, 2008

Japanese Bento Meets the American Brown Lunch Bag

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Few of my elementary school friends' mothers would have had the time to make intricate lunches similar in style to the Japanese Bento lu...
Friday, April 11, 2008

The Seasonality of Pomegranates

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Apparently, pomegranates are not available for purchase in March. I abruptly realized this after unsuccessfully searching QFC for them at th...
Monday, April 7, 2008

Peanut Butter Kiss Cookies

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The thing that mattered almost as much to me as the presents I received on Christmas day was the massive amount of cookie baking that I did ...
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