‘In the Struggle’ Chronicles the Roots of California’s Food Justice Movement
"The focal point of book is the struggle against the negative effects of concentrated wealth and power that just happen to play out in the Central Valley in land, water, and the food system. The same dynamic is happening all over the world.
Why Ken Meter Is on a Mission to Build Community Food Webs
Industrial farming drained wealth from rural America. In his new book, Meter says community food systems can repair the damage.
Discoveries about God and Race in the Table
Mockett is stunned to suddenly see “the level of emotion and thought that has gone into the architecture of a world that enabled the taking of the land.”
'Fasting And Feasting': The Remarkable Life of Patience Gray
"Doing her own thing" meant pursuing interests that presaged today's slow food movement.
Marie Kondo: The Queen of Clean
Japan's Decluttering Dynamo Has Shown Millions The Life-Changing Magic of Tidying Up
Cookbook Specialist Bonnie Slotnick: Keeping the Spirit of "Book Row" Alive
Profile of the owner of one of the hidden gems of the West Village, Bonnie Slotnick Cookbooks.
Profile of a Tastemaker: Rozanne Gold
The cookbook author with the golden palate and a gift for creating culinary trends
Daniel Shaviro, novelist, West Village resident, and NYU Law School Professor
How entertaining can the author of "When Rules Change: An Economic and Political Analysis of Transition Relief and Retroactivity" be? I thought as I set out to interview NYU Law School tax professor Daniel Shaviro. Very, it turns out.
Local and Independent: Three Lives & Co. Caters to Customers, Survives Big -box Onslaught
Three Lives & Company is the kind of bookshop every neighborhood should have. After writing a string of stories lamenting small retail closures in Greenwich Village, I wanted to clebrate a local favorite that has survived stiff competition.
Everest: Mountain Without Mercy
Book review of Broughton Coburns Everest, Mountain Without Mercy
Hunting With the Moon: The Lions of Savuti
Book review of Dereck and Beverly Jouberts tribute to the lion prides of Botswana
Catching Her Breath
Virtuoso flutist Eugenia Zukerman responds to a rare auto-immune lung disease by co-authoring, with her sister, a book on coping with the corticosteroid prednisone.
Taking Care
Inspired by her own experience caring for her elderly mother, an Alzheimers patient, writer Claire Berman writes a book for caregivers on how to care for themselves as well as their loved one.
The Burgeoning Art of Healing With the Head
Its not just the Oprah-effect: mind/body books are a publishing fad.
Sleepless Nights
Book review and interview with director-writer Andrew Bergman, author of the novel Sleepless Nights.
The Golden Mean
Review of author-illustrator Nick Bantocks book The Golden Mean.
Old Friends
Review of non-fiction author Tracy Kidders Old Friends, and conversation with Kidder.