Thank you for sharing this, especially the locative food mention! I'm going to dig into her blog. I'm undertaking a new uncertain task, writing a newsletter about food systems in Utah, where we have a really bad situation when it comes to support for local farms and relying on imported foods. But this small mention of "locative foods" has kind of blown my mind up to the possibilities of how one could get people to care about food in a cold desert where food chiefly grows in the summer.
If you don't know Joan Dye Gussow's work (This Organic Life) you might find it fruitful. I've been foisting Amitav Ghosh's The Nutmeg's Curse on everyone -- it's an essential book on food and colonialism, as well as being a fabulous read and really germane to the situation in PR. And although there's meat, Elizabeth Luard's books on European Peasant Cooking along with John Berger's writing on how the EU was an instrument to stamp out the local foodways are key texts for me. And Honey from a Weed, by Patience Gray. My north star book.
Another look back, c. 2005 at Solomon's work where she lured geese and diners to a dinner: https://web.archive.org/web/20050626073701/http://www.sautewednesday.com/
Thank you for sharing this, especially the locative food mention! I'm going to dig into her blog. I'm undertaking a new uncertain task, writing a newsletter about food systems in Utah, where we have a really bad situation when it comes to support for local farms and relying on imported foods. But this small mention of "locative foods" has kind of blown my mind up to the possibilities of how one could get people to care about food in a cold desert where food chiefly grows in the summer.
If you don't know Joan Dye Gussow's work (This Organic Life) you might find it fruitful. I've been foisting Amitav Ghosh's The Nutmeg's Curse on everyone -- it's an essential book on food and colonialism, as well as being a fabulous read and really germane to the situation in PR. And although there's meat, Elizabeth Luard's books on European Peasant Cooking along with John Berger's writing on how the EU was an instrument to stamp out the local foodways are key texts for me. And Honey from a Weed, by Patience Gray. My north star book.