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 at the green market at [...]
Tags: Love
TED Talks are AWESOMEEEEEE :)
here are three videos from TED conferences from a year ago that pretty much express to you how saturated i am in these talks every single day in school, in the food movement, at my internships, and what people are talking about all day long about FOOD FOOD FOOD.
I think they [...]
Tags: TED Talk Links
Mmm, nothing like giving in to your body when it tells you exactly what it needs… :)
GOOD FOOD,
GOOD SLEEP,
GOOD RELAXATION TIME AFTER SOME KICK ASS WORKOUTS.
last week i completely dropped my books, and spent some quality alone time, shopping for food, cooking, eating, and working out (3 times in 4 days) i even went swimming!! [...]
But ‘How do we feed the world’?
Ahh the age old question.
This conversation and argument has been coming up a lot in my classes, esp in agriculture. In fighting for changes to agricultural practices and policies that can be built and implemented to change the raping of our lands yet find a way to feed [...]
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 playful with the ideas of [...]
Tags: Food Photography
“You can’t save the world J”
“but I can try! besides, wasn’t the world built on people trying to fight for their own agendas anyway? In their own little worlds?
Why can’t I fight for the creation of my own?”
My academic head never gives up. It’s like a hamster wheel on crack. Run run run fattie! apparently [...]
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 to tell them apart, and how [...]
a follow up to my “C is for Cookie, and Carrot?” post -
Sesame Street’s response to Healthy Eating
and all the attention on the Cookie Monster!
“me likie!”
When i get overwhelmed,
I seek for inspiration,
and i look to the future generation for inspiration.
Somehow, kids really are the answer. education is the answer, and awareness is the new Food [...]
Sick and tired of being sick and tired? I’ll say!
It is clear from the million of quantitative and qualitative articles in the past 48 hours on food nutrition issues in Schools all across America, that there is an increasing national health crisis, an epidemic on the raise since the early two thousands and a decade [...]
After a very reality check kind of day on Wednesday – My triple whammy that caught me off guard and made me completely upset with the world, (yup we all have those days where you just get home, swing the door wide open in hopes to find some comfort to sweept through there like the [...]