On
Food Sovereignty:
What is Food Sovereignty?
La Via Campesina
From Lagos
Valerie Segrest at TEDxRainier
Leah Penniman & Farming
Farming While Black
Fannie Lou Hamer
Food + Justice = Democracy
Afroculinaria
Uprooted & Rising
The Iroquois White Corn Project
Cherokee Heritage Center Seed Band
Masters of Social Gastronomy Podcast
Words
That Guide
Come Again:
“If there is a part of ourselves that always remains inaccessible and to a greater or lesser extent resists any one interpretation, then we will be compelled to continually question our own motives and desires. And only when we engage in this continual self-interrogation is there hope that we can become an ethical society; only then is there hope for anything approximating justice.”
Kelly Oliver
“But how many daydreams we should have to analyze under the simple heading of Doors! For the door is an entire cosmos of the Half-open. In fact, it is one of its primal images, the very origin of a daydream that accumulates desires and temptations: the temptation to open up the ultimate depths of being, and the desire to conquer all reticent beings. The door schematizes two strong possibilities, which sharply classify two types of daydream. At times it is closed, bolted, padlocked. At others, it is open, that is to say, wide open.”
Gaston Bachelard
Dr. Gabrielle Civil’s recipe for an experiment in joy.
Tell the truth
Make something new
Invite someone in
Document
Repeat
“To weep is part of the normal activity of the amorous body.”
Roland Barthes
“Attention is the rarest and purest form of generosity.”
Simone Weil
“If you have a serious, loving, creative, energetic attitude towards life, when you cook, you cook with the same attitude. Food changes into blood, blood into cells, cells change into energy which changes up into life and since your lifestyle is imaginative, creative, loving, energetic, serious, food is life. You dig.”
Verta Mae Smart-Grosvenor
“Playfulness is, in part, an openness to being a fool, which is a combination of not worrying about competence, not being self-important, not taking norms as sacred and finding ambiguity and double edges a source of wisdom and delight.”
María Lugones
“Further, there is also need of the passage of time and the habits formed by living together; for as the adage has it, it is not possible for people to know each other until they have eaten together the proverbial salt.”
Aristotle
