“Just Food,” the theme of our current issue, slyly downplays the power of food by dishing it up […]
Just Food
Vol. 34 No. 4

Our Food is in Jeopardy
Agriculture is what gave rise to civilization and it is also what is going to end it! Assured […]

Two Poems with Cut Fig
POEM OF THE UNFINISHED SANDWICH Tomato slice, white baladi cheese, rye, a bite taken from one […]

A Ritual of Humble Abundance
Sunlight filters through the treetops and spills onto our cobblestone road as I roll down my window and […]

Telling Our Twisted Histories, One Word at a Time
An interview with Ossie Michelin Introduction Telling Our Twisted Histories is a popular podcast series focusing on all […]

Green String Beans
Green String Beans Long thin beans on slender stems, fresh, smooth velvet carefully picked, weighed, lifted. Carried them as […]

Some Hard-to-Chew Facts!
For the foods we chow down on every day, labels and nutrient values do not tell us enough […]

A Parable: A Review of The Farm
I read Wendell Berry’s The Farm on a rainy afternoon in late July. It took me fifteen minutes, and […]

El Tamalito
Nobel laureate Pablo Neruda wrote a passionate ode to the humble onion, acknowledging its importance as a staple […]