Returning food to the sacred
Until this week I was a board member of Slow Food Maui for over 3 years. Being part of this organization has been an honor and an educational experience that continues to shape me and my food philosophy in so many ways, it’s almost impossible to enumerate. And though I feel like I’ve been a […]
Traveling through Italy for almost 2 months was a revelation on too many levels to enumerate. I’m still processing my time there and can’t wait to go back. Obviously the biggest lessons and experiences there centered around food as I was sent as a delegate to the 2014 Slow Food Terra Madre conference. But the […]
Like ‘organic’, ‘natural’ and ‘sustainable’, the word ‘local’ has become a catch phrase that food marketers think is cool because it sells. It does. But here’s why: Resource, economy, community and earth conscious people tend to want food that is local. This means it didn’t travel for however long in a box, it didn’t tax […]
Italy. Maybe it’s the fantasy, maybe it’s the visions I’ve always held about being here and eating myself into a bliss induced coma, or maybe… just maybe, Italians do good things by food, but in the last week that I’ve been here in Italy, every single meal I’ve had here has been amazing. Italian […]
