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I think it is a little bit more than a hobby at this point, there’s a movement really throughout the city, many US cities… where people are beginning to reimagine food production as something that’s essential to their daily lives. -Howard Rosing
In areas of the city where fresh produce is hard to come by, how have community gardens filled the void? Howard Rosing is the Executive Director for the Steans Center at DePaul and a cultural anthropologist who has studied this very relationship, he discusses the food ‘desertification’ of Chicago neighboorhoods and efforts toward rebuilding a functioning food system.
Then, intern Gillian McGhee visited Altgeld Sawyer Corner Farm on the corner of (you guessed it!) Altgeld and Sawyer and talked with some volunteer gardeners about their experiences growing and distributing fresh food.
joanie utah’s filipino breakfast, courtesy of Uncle Mike’s Place: eggs, garlic rice, longanisa. chocolate tapioca goodness with a side o’ coffee.
Uncle Mike’s Place. Guh.
Monkeys Share Food to Build Their Social Networks: Scientists have thought for some time that sharing is only a human trait, developed to foster social interactions and conversations. But a new study by the journal PLOS ONE finds that bonobos (the monkey, not the clothing company) also share their food. There’s a catch, however: they prefer to share with strangers, rather than their monkey friends, in order to expand their social network (hey Facebook, give it a try). So next time you’re eating a bagel on the subway, hand someone a piece. You might make a new friend.
Molly will be friends with all bagel eaters.
“I stopped at a market to get a fruit platter for a movie night with friends but I couldn’t find one so I asked the produce guy,” says the 40-year-old arts administrator from Seattle. “And he was like, ‘If you want fruit platters, go to Safeway. We’re organic.’ I finally bought a small cake and some strawberries and then at the check stand, the guy was like ‘You didn’t bring your own bag? I need to charge you if you didn’t bring your own bag.’ It was like a ‘Portlandia skit.’ They were so snotty and arrogant.”
Sometimes we find news stories that are just too perfect for our show.
