I’ve paid my debt to the sea.
edible stories
By Bren Smith
Eat Like A Fish
Seed Saving: The Opportunities and Challenges
Saving seeds from our favorite crops and flowers for the next growing season might seem like a humble tradition, like something your grandparents had been doing for years, hoping you’d notice. But like many humble traditions, there is wisdom in seed saving, as it can provide insight into how we might combat our changing climate…
By Benjamin A. Wurgaft and Merry I. White
Nem on the Menu: An Excerpt from “Ways of Eating: Exploring Food Through History and Culture”
SPONSORED Restaurants were not part of my childhood. My family invariably ate at home. This was fairly common in the 1940s and 1950s in the Midwest. One consequence was that we did not eat “other people’s foods,” that is, the food of other ethnic groups. The most exotic things I ate, in my 1950s childhood,…
Dirt Rich
Filmmaker Marcelina Cravat reveals the regenerative magic of biochar in her new documentary. Back in 2013, the environmental concern most Northern Californians were losing sleep over was the drought. Our more recent pattern of frequent firestorms had not settled in or signaled its frightening potential, and Elizabeth Kolbert’s book, The Sixth Extinction, was not yet…
Alaska Runs on Salmon
Wild salmon connects consumers to landscapes and small fishing families in Alaska When you see “wild salmon” on a menu or sign at your local fish counter, it usually means the fish were caught in Alaska. Only about a quarter of the salmon Americans eat is wild. Of that portion, at least 80 percent comes…
Read an Excerpt on Congee from Terry Walters’ ‘Nourish: Plant-based Recipes to Feed Body Mind and Soul’
When a macrobiotic counselor recommended congee for me decades ago, I was so overwhelmed by all of the changes he had prescribed, that I just never got around to making the congee happen. That consult was one of the first experiences that empowered me to use food to support my good health, so I’m certainly…