Winter 2014
Table of Contents
The Food for Health Issue
In Depth
Explore SectionFrom the Editors
How To Eat Like Our Lives Depend On It: Rediscovering the Many Joys of Food
It’s time to reclaim the well-being and exuberance that is part of healthy food culture.
Read moreStand Up to the Food Industry: Rediscover the Pleasures of Cooking and Eating Real Food
Junk food may have captured the American palate, but a few simple ingredients and techniques can win it back.
Arun Gupta
Just the Facts
Infographic: The Link Between Cooking at Home And Living Longer
We spend less time in the kitchen than ever. But here's why Michael Pollan says cooking could be an important solution to our public health crisis.
Doug Pibel
6 Reasons to Eat Fermented Foods
Live-culture revivalist Sandor Katz explains why letting some foods go bad makes them even better—increasing both flavor and nutrition.
Sandor Katz
Why Soak Your Oats? What Our Ancestors Knew About Preparing Food
8 methods that make everyday foods even healthier—including soaking, drying, sprouting, and pounding.
Tracy Matsue Loeffelholz
Italy’s “Slow Food†Pioneer: How My Love for Food Ripened into a Life’s Work
“Our philosophy is good, clean, and fair food: Good because it is healthy and tasty; clean because it is produced with low environmental impact and with animal welfare in mind; and fair because it respects the work of those who produce, process, and distribute it.â€
Sarah van Gelder
What I Learned About Living Well In My Mother’s Puerto Rican Kitchen
When I was growing up, the conveniences of modern life took over my mother’s kitchen, and our health declined as a result. Here’s what happened when we went back to the way our ancestors dined.
Melinda Gonzalez
A Chef’s Perspective on Revering Life—Even When It’s Raised to Be Slaughtered
I always knew the goats across the street were raised for food, but this was my first personal relationship with an animal that would later become my food.
Lisa Harris
The King of Portland’s Deli Scene Cured His Diabetes Through Diet
After I was diagnosed with type-2 diabetes, I figured out how to get healthy without giving up my favorite foods.
Ken Gordon
What Occupy Oakland Taught Me About Healthy Eating
We came to Occupy because of America’s dangerous gap between rich and poor. But equally distressing was how many of us suffered from diseases created by a food system that makes healthy food inaccessible to the poor.
AshEL Eldridge
Delicious Food Is Not an Indulgence—It’s a Way to Solve Our Ecological Crises
Food became my teacher, and I aligned my taste buds with what the people and planet need.
Frances Moore Lappé
How a Cup of Nettle Tea Taught Me How To Live Well and Remember the Past
I am a Muckleshoot Indian, but little of what I used to eat bore much connection with the landscape I lived in, which had fed my ancestors for many generations. When I discovered nettle tea, it was as if I were remembering what it was like to feel well.
Valerie Segrest
8 Lifestyles for Healthy Eating (and They All Include Kale!)
Have a New Year's resolution to eat better in the coming year? We set out to find out what a healthy diet really looks like. Turns out, they all have a few things in common.
The Surprising Healing Qualities … of Dirt
A doctor discovers exposure to healthy farm soil holds keys to healthy bodies.
Daphne Miller
Portland’s Food Trucks Bring Fast Food and Social Justice
Immigrants and other restaurant workers get a way to rise in local economies. Communities get the best fast food they've ever had.
Abby Quillen
Why Vandana Shiva Says Saving Seeds Is a Political Act
‘‘A seed sown in the soil makes us one with the Earth. It makes us realize that we are the Earth.â€
Sarah van Gelder
Veggies at the Liquor Store—and 5 Other Ways to Bring Food to Your Community
Out-of-the-box ideas for putting healthier food on our neighborhood plates—and make friends doing it.
Shannan Lenke Stoll
Infographic: The U.S. Food That Europe Won’t Touch
13 ways the European Union differs from the U.S. on food safety issues like GMOs, hormones, questionable chemicals, and other food additives.
Solutions We Love
Explore SectionWhat If Winston Churchill Were Leading the Fight Against Climate Change?
"The era of procrastination, of half-measures, of soothing and baffling expedients, of delays, is coming to a close."
Tony Juniper
How a Chicago Mom Liberated a Foreclosure and Got a Home for Her Four Kids
Displaced by foreclosure, this family took direct action—and got a place to live.
Laura Gottesdiener
The Facts Are In: Austerity Politics Doesn’t Work
From England's double-dip recession to Portugal's spiking unemployment, there is now conclusive evidence of the complete failure of austerity.
Sally Kohn
People We Love
When Her Photo Became an Anti-Feminist Meme, This College Woman Fought Back—and Thousands Joined Her
From internet memes to campus quads, young people are reworking feminism to meet today's challenges.
Erika Lundahl & Ray Stoeve
An Economy That Benefits Ordinary People? What We Learned From the 1%
When thinking 40 years into the future, people step out of the current political situation, and our sense of what's possible becomes much more expansive. We are not only able to think bigger—we crave it.
Bree Carlson & George Goehl
The Page That Counts
There Are Still ÎÞÂëÊÓƵ Libraries Than McDonald’s Locations in the United States
(and 24 other facts you should probably know).
Erika Lundahl & Ray Stoeve
Culture Shift
Explore Section
Yes! But How?