entomophagy

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...

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 ...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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 ...

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...

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

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

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 ...