Category Archives: Food Writing

“There’s Food in Them There Hills”

I am contributing a new semi- regular column about foraging to Chicago based local food website The Local Beet. Check out my first article about edible mushrooms that I have been collecting at Ox-Bow: http://www.thelocalbeet.com/2010/07/29/fungal-abundance-introducing-theres-food-in-them-there-hills/
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The Pigeon That I Love Dearly

I found a baby bird on my doorstep. It had been intentionally placed there by someone- it was on a piece of cardboard with a brick set up to protect it from the wind. They were excavating piles of trash from the thoroughfare between my building and the one next door, so it seemed as [...]
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2009: Top 10 Food

If last year’s top 10 was assembled to gear up for the economic downturn, this year’s reflects the depths of the crunch on the old bank book. I must say that the challenge of resourcefulness can be quite rewarding- eating well for not much money is an affirmation of simple joys. A nearby selection of [...]
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Diary of 12 Days of Eating in the Southwest

My grad program took a 12 day trip to the Southwest, visiting Earthworks, land use sites, and a few cities. We each contributed to a group publication and the following link is a downloadable .pdf of my efforts for the book. It details the day-by-day trials and joys of eating on the road and at [...]
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