Personal Food: Defining Who I am by the Food I Eat and How I Eat It.

Reviving my Personal Food “column”,  here’s a wonderful essay from food blogger Jessica Rodgers.  I met Jessica when I traveled to San Diego in August for an improv workshop weekend. Jess improvises too, and it was such a busy weekend we didn’t get much time to talk about our love of blogging about food.  I [...]

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Personal Food: Haven’s story

This personal food story is comes directly  from Civil Eats – I hope you enjoy it and join me in following her new series there, Last Mile Access. I’ve never told anyone this other than Barry Estabrook: I grew up eating tomatoes planted in soil nourished by my own poop. My family’s zeal for organic [...]

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Personal Food: Jeff’s story

Jeff is a good friend whom I met when we worked together at Capital City Public Charter School. He and his partner Bruce live in a charming Cape Cod which they’re restoring, in Takoma Park, just the other side of the District boundary. He writes about their little urban homestead at The Prolific Sunchoke. He [...]

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Personal food: Becca’s Story

I enjoyed reading and sharing Amanda’s guest post on her personal food politics earlier this week, and her story reminded me of my friend Becca’s story. I got to know Becca, a talented teacher at the school where I work, through discussing food. Cross-Pollanation? In contrast to Amanda’s story, Becca’s journey lead her back to [...]

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Personal Food: Amanda’s story

I’ve mentioned Amanda enough by now that I should not have use the phrase “blogging spirit guide” again, but … there ya go. Amanda writes a really creative and thought provoking blog called Tastee Pudding (where I guest posted today) on finding and living a creative life. Her idea for the Blogathon guest post day [...]

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