Coconut groves, cacoa plantation, palm trees and seemingly endless white beaches: this is Bahia, the tropical state in northeastern Brazil where our food appreciation classes have landed this week on their virtual world food tour. Bahia is the fourth-largest of Brazil’s 26 states and in addition to being a major exporter of cacoa is now […]
Tags:food appreciation·seafood·South America·stew·sustainable fisheries
A journey ends, another begins. The garden is a continuous wheel, slowly turning. We try to keep up. Sometimes we lope ahead. Sometimes we simply rejoice at what springs from the soil, what our little partnership with nature has produced. Pardon me if I sound ridiculously emotional about our salad greens. But it has been […]
The year 2048 is not so far away. Yet that is the year some authorities predict the world’s fisheries will totally collapse if current fishing practices remain in place. Imagine, 90 percent of the world’s living space is contained in our oceans. It’s an area of incredible size, filled at one time with a seemingly […]
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