We’re friends, right? So I feel I can tell you about my cookbook organization system or lack thereof. I have talked before about my cookbook addiction. The photo above is the top two shelves of my bookshelf, which is what I told myself I’d limit myself to. When I keep getting review copies, it’s not easy!

In honor of world food day, I’m going to share a letter from Davis Omanyo, one of my coworkers. He lives in Uganda and oversees all of CRWRC’s work in East Africa. Sometimes it seems like the media always shares depressing stories when reporting about hunger; I wanted to share some positive things that are happening.

“Cancerous is exactly the state of our twenty-first-century global food empire. Whither concentrated orange juice, thither the vast, unmeasured apparatus of commodities markets, shipping fleets, wholesale buyers, and shopping carts.” p. 124 Empires of Food: Feast, Famine, and the Rise and Fall of Civilizations, Evan D.G. Fraser and Andrew Rimas

In 2004 I had the privilege of visiting Bangladesh. I had just started working for the international relief & development organization for which I still work. In high school I had gone on a youth group mission trip to Costa Rica, and in college I studied for a summer in London, but I had never experienced anything like the month I spent in India and Bangladesh. It was like my eyes were opened. The girls in the photo here stole {Read More}