IACP Pain Points Panel: Tech Tools for Today’s Food Pro Maggie, Emma, Stella and I are sharing our favorite apps with you. The links below are the tools we use (or have heard about) that make our jobs easier, more organized, and efficient. Do you have an app you love? Or, have you found a… Continue reading IACP Pain Points Panel: Tech Tools for Today’s Food Pro
Category: Spirit
A Tribute to Charlie Trotter
It happens like this: We do not see the thing for what it is until it is no more. It can happen so quickly: News of another person’s death distills the color and lines of the small band of people who surround your life, bringing their clarity into focus. Perhaps you pull them closer to… Continue reading A Tribute to Charlie Trotter
Memoriam
May eighth, you come without notice. After three years, you would think I would be mindful of your coming and yet you come and you take. A week ago, I greeted May, all bustle and business until it stopped me and put me in my place- the clock is ticking. You will soon be here… Continue reading Memoriam
The Future of Food and Hunger
In a room full of food writers, editors, movers and shakers, I found myself all alone. As applause struck a fevered pitch in the audience, my heart rate began to race. I tried to edge out from my emotions and siphon them into the seat next to me. I tried to make my fingers with… Continue reading The Future of Food and Hunger
Hunger in America: Have You Ever Gone Hungry?
Did you know that 16 million children live in households that struggle to put food on the table? Put another way, that’s 1 in 5 kids. It’s absurd isn’t it? The number confounds with its profundity. It feels so big as to be out of reach. It requires a groundswell of people involved to make… Continue reading Hunger in America: Have You Ever Gone Hungry?
Good Friday Poetry: Myopia
I’ve been thinking about death for the past few weeks. Lest you think this is stemming from some sort of morbidity on my part, it’s been a dose of digging deep into the passage of John 19 for guidance in writing a poem I read aloud today at a Good Friday service. Culturally speaking, Good… Continue reading Good Friday Poetry: Myopia
Sally’s Pumpkin Bread and #HatDay
Today: Sally’s first anniversary. Tuesday: Tio Z’s second anniversary. Sunday: a friend’s grandfather’s passing. This week is mired in remembrances of lives well lived and yet also, death pocking the days. It’s a curious thing trying to accept our own mortality, isn’t it? It’s an incredible thing to think of death as a gift, which… Continue reading Sally’s Pumpkin Bread and #HatDay
A Day of Remembrance
Down but not out
Money wins. Election day finally pulled into the station yesterday. A campaign of over $45 million dollars was funneled into confusing consumers on the issue of what mandating food labeling of genetically modified foods actually involved. And the voters have spoken. The thing is, most decisions in life, for adults, come down to money, right?… Continue reading Down but not out
Memorial
May his memory be a blessing. In my heart, a yahrzeit candle burns, two years later. You go to bury the dead. You put something dead into a still living soil. And what if you planted something real and still waiting for its blooming- What if you look for a way to keep the memorial… Continue reading Memorial
THIS SATURDAY: SF Food Bloggers Bake Sale
Just in case you haven’t heard yet, tomorrow is kind of a big deal. All around the country, home cooks and food bloggers will be hosting bake sales to benefit Share our Strength as part of the Great American Bake Sale. I remember my friend Nissa participated in a Brooklyn bake sale a few years… Continue reading THIS SATURDAY: SF Food Bloggers Bake Sale
SF Food Blogger Bake Sale – April 28 at Kiehls
Who has time to volunteer? I ask myself this question as I’m juggling a multitude of activities, commitments and trying to do the careful dance of not plunging into the depths of my inbox while staying current in correspondence. What’s interesting is seeing how volunteerism looks a bit different from the high school days. It’s… Continue reading SF Food Blogger Bake Sale – April 28 at Kiehls