Because while the food system is being hit hard by the climate crisis, it also plays a sizable role in causing of the problem, accounting for one third of the world’s emissions. This story was produced in partnership with Civil Eats. If we had been told, a decade ago, that so many climate-fueled disasters would…
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We Are What We Eat — and We Must Make Food Decisions With the Climate Crisis in Mind
By Bruce Cole
Edible Pursuit: Tomato Language
By Monty Moran
Living Sustainably: To Honor Ourselves is to Honor our Planet
How can we take decisive action towards living sustainably with so many competing points of view? We’re told climate change is man-made, but then hear it’s a natural phenomenon. We hear that we need to regulate our companies, but also that doing so limits job growth and hurts our economy. We hear calls to “kill…
The Best Ice Ever
Off to a Late Start: An Excerpt from Marion Nestle’s New Book, “Slow Cooked”
For nearly half a century, I have been teaching and writing about the effects of politics on what we eat and, therefore, on our health. I began my career fascinated by nutrients, every one of them, but I ended up viewing foods, diets, and entire systems of food production and consumption as far more significant….
The Call of the Coals: Open Fire Cooking with Jason Michael Thomas
Unplug, get outdoors, and cook real food over a real fire this summer. I was first exposed to open-fire cooking at an early age. My father’s family waterskied and fished a number of Ohio’s lakes. I remember many fun-filled outings on Grandpa’s speedboat catching sunfish and bluegill from the dock at Indian Lake when I…