Simran Sethi

Simran Sethi is a freelancer reporter who focuses on food, science, and culture. She is the author of Bread, Wine, Chocolate: The Slow Loss of Foods We Love, named one of the best food books of 2016 by Smithsonian, and the host/creator of The Slow Melt, winner of the 2017 SAVEUR award for Best Food Podcast.

A mural of an indigenous woman shelling corn by Rosy Peraza Rios on the left. And an image of corn fields in Sonora, Mexico on the right. July 2021
Mexico is phasing out imports of glyphosate and GMO corn. Supporters say that could reverse years of damage from U.S. trade policy.
Politics
by Renée Alexander + Simran Sethi
07.19.2021
Politics
Two Ivorian gendarmes walk towards a child caught drying cocoa in the sun in the village of Opouyo in Soubre, on May 7, 2021 during an operation to remove children working on cocoa plantations. June 2021
Can U.S. chocolate companies be liable for child-labor abuses in the global cocoa supply chain?
Politics
by Simran Sethi
06.02.2021
Politics
Wheat diversity. May 2021
How biodiversity conservation can help manage future pandemics—for plants and for humans
Environment
by Simran Sethi
05.21.2021
Environment
Biden’s American Families Plan would fix SNAP eligibility for formerly incarcerated people banned from benefits
Politics
by Simran Sethi
04.30.2021
Politics
Food is distributed to hundreds outside of a Brooklyn mosque and cultural center on December 11, 2020 in New York City.
The stimulus bill is helpful. But it doesn’t go far enough to help the hungry.
Health
by Simran Sethi
01.14.2021
Health
Illustration of an empty fridge in front of a black and white photo of a stocked produce aisle. December 2020
Hunger and food insecurity are not the same. Here’s why that matters—and what they mean.
Health
by Simran Sethi
12.21.2020
Health
Choir at deposit outside of seed vault Feb 2020
Pandemics aren’t limited to people: How the world’s most famous seed vault defends plants against their next big outbreak
Environment
by Simran Sethi
05.21.2020
Environment
How the industrialization of agricultural is reducing biodiversity. Credit: iStock / Niran_pr, March 2019
How reduced biodiversity leads to the slow loss of foods we love
Environment
by Simran Sethi
03.11.2019
Environment
How indigenous communities are using food to heal from the generational trauma of colonialism this Thanksgiving. Credit: Andi Murphy, November 2018
“We are still alive”: How Native communities grapple with Thanksgiving’s colonial legacy
Culture
by Simran Sethi
11.20.2018
Culture