ok I will step down from my soap box. (if only for a day.) my last two posts were pretty riled up, and today was not that kind of day in jlo’s food world. It’s starting to smell a lot like Christmas, which means I’m getting more and more nostalgic for good food, warm family [...]
WOW, I can’t believe it’s been a year already!!! :) This is so exciting!! :) SO I raise my glass of champagne (or beer and chicken wings, as it was monday night football happy hour today after our research methods class…) and I toast you. my dear reader, my dear friends who have all been [...]
my dear readers, my dear friends, my dear families, lovers and other strangers, and all far away and in between :) You rock my world. :) I supposed it’d be too easy to talk about over eating, or the mistreatment of animals, or about farming and agribusiness like a usual post, because it’s THANKSGIVING, the [...]
in perspective. so it took me 3 months to really get a hang of all this grad school stuff, living in new york again, finding my passion, and feeling like I’m on top of my world again. I had a lot of refreshing moments today — even though the panda like shadows under my eyes [...]
Tags: Liquid Home, Vertical Farming
An Ode to the greener grass on this side of the dream. (NYC is the place to be! you know what i mean…) After an awesome dance concert on a beautiful Saturday, I walked towards union square with a great friend, to drop her off along the way. I treated myself to a shopping spree [...]
Tags: Love
So in the middle of my “Foodie” research today, (HOW DO YOU DEFINE the term “FOODIE”?) I stumbled upon this AWESOME site!!! (first discovered by Tastespotting.com & listed in their “popular” section… no wonder!!) A) I LOVE things that play with scale B) Talk about relating our lives to food C) These pictures are so [...]
Tags: Food Photography
With all the talking, sometimes, a picture worth more than my words. i think this greatly describes what i am feeling and thinking at the moment ;) Farm to Cafe Day was a HUGE success!!! -met Chef Bill from NY School Foods -met a Farmer who taught me how to cut herbs, taught me how [...]
“write about your class discussions, your rants, your ish with the world, and i’ll find you the readership” – here it is royboy. In my food policies class: What makes me sad – “Why do people spend so much time, energy, resources, and money, keeping people sick, uneducated, poverished, and demoralized in this country?! Why [...]
as it deserves the caps lock, i am seriously moved by this film. http://www.foodincmovie.com/about-the-film.php most law students who may have taken a food law class, chef’s who ask themselves where their ingredients come from, doctors who get asked by their patients what they should eat, and moms who must feed their children everyday are usually [...]
Tags: Food, Inc. the movie
hollla, day five baby, and started off with a bang english breakfast tea with milk and sugar belgin waffles with maple syrup vodka smoked salmon poached egg, and hollandaise sauce apple coleslaw potato and leek soup challah toast chocolate covered almonds sesame dessert soup corn on the cob roasted sweet and new potatoes with olive oil [...]
Tags: Meatless week