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Category Archives: food security
Circular Food
As the organizers might have expected, registration for this evening on the circular food economy mushroomed when it was known that food would be offered! Turns out there’s a lot happening in Victoria to rescue food from grocery outlets, then … Continue reading
The Future… and the Rice Porridge
I attended (virtually) the Oxford Symposium on Food & Cookery again this year, with much less time available to spend perusing the papers and attending the followup question and answer sessions, but it was delightful to spend some time with … Continue reading
Food & Hubris
The last of the Feed Your Mind lectures I was able to attend at Kings College was Creating Meat with Stem Cell Technology, a presentation by Mark Post of Maastricht University. He was behind the “stem burgers” launched with great … Continue reading
Saving BC’s agricultural land
In a day parenthesized by chilly rain, the sun decided to shine on today’s Food for the Future rally at the BC Legislature. For an hour or so, a swelling crowd of young, old and four-footed fans of food and … Continue reading
A larger world
Today’s class was about pediatric nutrition, and inevitably, we entered into discussions about obesity: how malnourished mothers give birth to the same problems in their babies as did … Continue reading