This simple slaw of grated raw apple, beets and carrots is a bright delight on the darkest days of the year.
Tag: Joan Gussow
The November 17 screening honors “the matriarch of the food movement.”
Joan Gussow will be in the audience at Edible Institute in May. We asked her where she thinks the food world is headed.
For more than a decade Dan Barber has been among the most influential chefs working at the intersection of ecology and gastronomy. Last Monday, with a veritable United Nations Security Council of the world’s top chefs as his allies, he exhorted cooks to think not just about how and where their food is grown, but about what forces are influencing the very DNA of our ingredients.
I’ve been thumbing through the short, final chapters of Joan Gussow’s most recent book, Growing, Older. They’re humorous even if the themes include dying, lifelong regrets, sea level rise and climate change. The later geological preoccupations are shared by both of us—we both garden in floodprone areas—and the balmy, 60-degree afternoons this past weekend reminded me that the future-oriented predictions of climate scientists seem more and more to have arrived in the here and now. (And, my colleagues at Edible Brooklyn tell me, the annual winter festival at Prospect Park was just cancelled, due to weather too warm to make snow.)
In May, my colleagues and I attended the James Beard Foundation’s journalism awards banquet, and…
SANTA BARBARA–It was a trip well worthy the icy roads, airport delays, crummy hotel stays,…
The Movement Matriarch Joan Dye Gussow, suburban homesteader, food activist, partial inspiration for our Eat…
There’s nothing like riding up in the elevator with Michael Pollan to start…
A Fete for the Movement Matriarch: On Sunday, Just Food is hosting a party for…
Don’t be a Sap, and Miss the 2010 Cherry Blossoms at the Brooklyn Botanic Garden:…
