I just spent a very long three days at this year’s FamilyFarmed expo, “live blogging” it for the Reader and, g-d help me tweeting it to boot. You can read the results over on the Reader blog, where I weigh in on the sad saga of shared-use kitchens, whole-beast cookery, urban chickens, and bunch of … Continued
I have a piece in this week’s Reader — a special issue devoted to all things Hyde Park-Kenwood — on the ongoing hoo-ha surrounding the U. of C.’s plan to use the lot long-occupied by the 61st Street Community Garden as a staging area for construction of the new Chicago Theological Seminary at 60th and … Continued
Are you wondering where I’ve gone? I’m here. And over here. Come visit!
Chicago; January 17, 2010 I am the busiest un(der)employed person I know. Soup and Bread is up and running again. We continue to sell cookbooks and expand our empire, and people are saying nice things about it — and me — on the internet. We are even going to New York in a few weeks, which … Continued
I did this little interview with Nance Klehm as a companion piece to an exhibit she participated in earlier this year called AgriART: Companion Planting for Social and Biological Systems. Although the premise seems at first quite straightforward — “An array of art works that critically engage with cultures of food production and consumption” — I … Continued
But over on my other blog you’ll find more than you ever possibly knew you wanted to know about the very exciting, very lovely Soup and Bread Cookbook. Go there. You won’t be sorry. For real. Bye.
Some months ago, my former colleague Mike Sula captured the attention of answer-man Cecil Adams with an admiring account of the bounty to to be found at Cleveland’s West Side Market and a plaintive query. “Even in this economy,” he wrote, “if a midsize rust-belt city can support a place like that, there’s no reason … Continued
“Some greenhouses grow vegetables. Some grow flowers. What grows at the two gleaming 2,500-square-foot greenhouses rising from a gray industrial district at South Canal Street and 14th Place is a bit more complex.” Really great story on the Greenhouses of Hope at PGM in this weekend’s Sunday Tribune Magazine. Though it does remind me how … Continued
Soup and Bread: The Cookbook
When I went to the Forgotten Fruits workshop up in Madison earlier this year, one thing seemed sort of off. All the trees looked like this one. March = not exactly peak apple season. Next week, tho, RAFT brings its apple program to Chicago just as the Pippins are starting to fall from the trees. … Continued