Food

Diversity in the Marketplace

By Kristi Willis Eureka! You’ve unearthed something at the farm stand that you haven’t seen before—maybe it’s sweet potato greens, kohlrabi, opo squash or an exotic melon. ...

School Lunch-Beyond the Budget

By Elizabeth WinslowPhotography by Andy Sams Created in 1946, the National School Lunch Act was conceived as an ingenious way to make use of agricultural surplus, keep crop prices steady and ...

Forging Food Democracy

By Mark Winne It is not only our duty to make the right known, but to make it prevalent. —Edmund Burke General Charles de Gaulle once said, “Politics are too serious a matter to be ...

Full Circle

By Stephen J. Lyons Illustration by Matt Lynaugh When my grandfather passed away, I told my mother I wanted just one treasure from my grandparents’ estate: the Toas-Tite sandwich ...

Chocolate Dark and Light

By Louise Ducote When I first moved to South Austin, my mother came to help me scrub the cabinets and hang hooks and to make sure my outside lights worked and that no serial killers were lurking ...

Local or Organic? A False Choice

By Samuel FromartzPhotography by Link Nicoll A couple of years ago, I visited an organic vegetable farm in southeast Minnesota, not far from the Mississippi River. Nestled in a valley that ...

For the Love of Peaches

It’s that time of year when Central Texans hop in their cars and search for those signs lining the winding roads in the Hill Country – “Peaches For Sale.” You can also find peach fans ...

Edible DIY: Peaches

When I was a little girl in Southern California, I routinely turned up my nose at fresh fruit. Like many kids, I preferred the soft, unidentifiable, brightly colored fruit cubes that came so ...

The Season for Tradition

Like many others, I wasn’t born in Texas, but I got here as fast as I could. I grew up in New York state, and these colder days remind me of the treks my family and I would take to yet another ...

Elderberry

by Amy Crowell If ever the title “elder” were to be bestowed upon a wild berry, the elderberry truly deserves the honor. Hippocrates referred to this prolific plant as his “entire ...