Doing Lunch Doing Lunch
Ann Cooper, gourmet chef turned healthy school food advocate, talks about becoming a "lunch lady" and what it takes to reform our children's cafeterias.
Aug 27, 2006 / Feature / Anna Lappé
A World Unmoored by War A World Unmoored by War
The United States now spends more in Iraq in a month that the entire world spends on fighting AIDS in a year. Have we reached the point where the terror of AIDS is no match for the...
Aug 25, 2006 / Feature / Stephen Lewis
A Right to Food? A Right to Food?
Hunger is a violation of basic rights: a right to food, but more important, Bolivian and Brazilian experience suggests, a right to power.
Aug 24, 2006 / Feature / Frances Moore Lappé
Black Farms, Black Markets Black Farms, Black Markets
For black farmers, succeeding financially and bringing healthy food to urban markets remains an uphill battle against a lack of business contacts.
Aug 24, 2006 / Feature / Habiba Alcindor
How Harlem Eats How Harlem Eats
Urban restaurateurs, activists and consumers are seeking "food justice," insisting that healthy food shouldn't be a privilege for the wealthy and white.
Aug 24, 2006 / Feature / Mark Winston Griffith
Edible NOLA Edible NOLA
A new charter school is embracing "eco-gastronomy"--a holistic curriculum based around food--hoping "to renew New Orleans one okra plant and one child at a time."
Aug 24, 2006 / Feature / Randy Fertel
Mean or Green? Mean or Green?
Wal-Mart is serious about bringing organic food to the masses, but transportation costs and the retail giant's aggressive competitive ways could end up hurting small farms and the ...
Aug 24, 2006 / Feature / Liza Featherstone
One Thing to Do About Food: A Forum One Thing to Do About Food: A Forum
How do we fix our dysfunctional relationship with food? Alice Waters leads a forum with Eric Schlosser, Marion Nestle, Peter Singer and others, who suggest, for starters, that we...
Aug 24, 2006 / Feature / Jim Hightower, Eric Schlosser, Peter Singer, Eliot Coleman, Vandana Shiva, Carlo Petrini, Winona LaDuke, Elizabeth Ransom, Troy Duster, Wendell Berry, Michael Pollan, and Marion Nestle
Slow Food Nation Slow Food Nation
Fast food is killing us--our environment, our politics and our culture. To change who we are as a nation, we must first change how we eat.
Aug 24, 2006 / Feature / Alice Waters
Eat Drink Man Woman Eat Drink Man Woman
Three new books by Julia Child, Anthony Bourdain and Bill Buford chart the evolution of American cooking, from haute cuisine to the hot kitchen of Mario Batali.
Aug 24, 2006 / Books & the Arts / Matthew DeBord