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Food Choice and Climate Change

Food Choice and Climate Change

Holy smokes, folks, check out this awesome resource to help us make fact-based, truly good kitchen choices re: climate change. For the planet today and for the kids, too! A few surprises to me: Cheese (oh how I love cheese) is sometimes worse, in terms […]

Beans and Rice Multi Colored Because Diversity Is Delicious

Beans and Rice Multi Colored Because Diversity Is Delicious

(to accompany this essay also on Huffington Post): Sometimes a dish of beans and rice is just the thing, the just thing. I live in Charlottesville, plenty famous enough, thank you very much, without the white supremacist rally mid-August that catapulted our town into national news. […]

Charlottesville August 12, 2017 Imagine a Different Day

Charlottesville August 12, 2017 Imagine a Different Day

Imagine. August 12, 2017. Charlottesville, Virginia. Imagine with me an alternative day. Early morning. The dawning sun eases its light down Water Street, the pedestrian Mall, Market Street. It’s quiet, as usual. But something happened overnight. Where there had been none before, banners sweep across […]