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Digest | Feeding the Bronx

By Nicola | Published: January 12, 2010
The Center for Urban Pedagogy has created an awesome new video that explores some of the economic and consumer forces that combine to create the South Bronx foodscape. It’s called Bodega Down Bronx, and you can watch it in full (a half hour well spent) over over at Design Observer, where it premiered earlier this [...]
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Digest | Of Civil Wars, Diaspora, and Culinary Nostalgia

By Nicola | Published: December 23, 2009
When Fuschia Dunlop, a British cook and food writer specialising in Chinese cuisine, was compiling material for her recent book on Hunanese food, she faced a difficult decision: to include, or not to include, a recipe for General Tso’s Chicken. IMAGE: General Tso’s Chicken as served in San Francisco, via Flickr user Rick Audet. For readers unfamiliar [...]
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Digest | London Yields, Harvested

By Nicola | Published: August 1, 2009
London’s Building Center hosted a daylong seminar at the end of May called London Yields: Getting Urban Agriculture off the Ground. The speakers covered a lot of terrain—so, instead of a full recap of the event, the following list simply explores some of the broader ideas, responses, and questions about urban agriculture that stood out [...]
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