Food + Culture
Orange rectangle with child's face illustrated with cut out holes and black and white photos of grapes in background with orange dots December 2021.
Source, subject, and reader: A farm worker weighs in on short stories about an agricultural community like her own
Orange rectangle with child's face illustrated with cut out holes and black and white photos of grapes in background with orange dots December 2021.
12.09.2021
by Tina Vasquez
Dominique Villanueva and Chris gooden and children stand for a portrait on their plot of land in Birmingham, Alabama. 110321
With aquaponics, growers are charting a self-guided course to community improvement and uplift
Dominique Villanueva and Chris gooden and children stand for a portrait on their plot of land in Birmingham, Alabama. 110321
11.16.2021
by Safiya Charles
Cows graze in between trees and by a fence while a farmer and a dog watch. November 2021
She spent years as an ag journalist, often writing about how precarious life can be for small farmers. Then she started farming.
Cows graze in between trees and by a fence while a farmer and a dog watch. November 2021
11.11.2021
by Beth Hoffman + Jesse Hirsch
Asmeret Berhe-Lumax, founder of One Love Community Fridge, and Cynthia Edorh place donated food in the Clinton Hill-Fort Greene Mutual Aid group's refrigerator on March 02, 2021 in the Fort Greene neighborhood of the Brooklyn borough in New York City. October 2021
Community fridges are not a pandemic fad. They’ve become entrenched in neighborhoods as a way to fight hunger.
Asmeret Berhe-Lumax, founder of One Love Community Fridge, and Cynthia Edorh place donated food in the Clinton Hill-Fort Greene Mutual Aid group's refrigerator on March 02, 2021 in the Fort Greene neighborhood of the Brooklyn borough in New York City. October 2021
10.08.2021
by Matthew Sedacca
A man smells a wine glass in black and white, his eyes are cut out with newspaper food critic reviews on top of a white napkin and coffee brown background. October 2021
U.S. restaurant criticism was evolving well before Covid-19. The pandemic revealed why critics need to keep embracing change.
A man smells a wine glass in black and white, his eyes are cut out with newspaper food critic reviews on top of a white napkin and coffee brown background. October 2021
10.07.2021
by Patricia I. Escárcega
An illustration of various cookbooks with international diacritics, recipes, and dishes. September 2021
Why’s it taken so long for foreign-language characters and words to make it into English cookbooks?
An illustration of various cookbooks with international diacritics, recipes, and dishes. September 2021
09.30.2021
by Rachel Baron
A food distribution at COPO in Brooklyn, NY. September 2021
NYC food pantries strive to serve Muslim communities with halal meat
A food distribution at COPO in Brooklyn, NY. September 2021
09.16.2021
by Nadia Batool Bokhari
A view of the kitchen prep of the restaurant Windows on the World (on the 107th floor of the World Trade Center), New York, New York, January 1977. September 2021
Hospitality in the face of tragedy: How NYC restaurant workers showed up for their communities in the wake of the 9/11 attacks
A view of the kitchen prep of the restaurant Windows on the World (on the 107th floor of the World Trade Center), New York, New York, January 1977. September 2021
09.09.2021
by Adam Reiner
Rewrites collage of José Cardenas, black and white portrait with cardboard scraps, green tape, purple scribbles, ticket and stamps, and Manuel Lopez Imperiales wrapper of cigar. August 2021
“I’m not playing any of this, ‘The customer is always right’”
Rewrites collage of José Cardenas, black and white portrait with cardboard scraps, green tape, purple scribbles, ticket and stamps, and Manuel Lopez Imperiales wrapper of cigar. August 2021
08.06.2021
by José Cardenas + Safiya Charles