“Comfort food” takes on a whole new meaning this year as we head into a holiday season marred by a pandemic and new lockdowns. Not just for sustenance, but “quarantine cuisine” filled with comfort and joy.

“Comfort food” takes on a whole new meaning this year as we head into a holiday season marred by a pandemic and new lockdowns. Not just for sustenance, but “quarantine cuisine” filled with comfort and joy.
“Comfort food” takes on a whole new meaning this year as we head into a holiday season marred by a pandemic and new lockdowns. Not just for sustenance, but “quarantine cuisine” filled with comfort and joy.
If you trust infectious disease expert Dr. Anthony Fauci’s advice about COVID-19, you may know that he’s advised Americans to have smaller Thanksgiving celebrations this year, acknowledging that his three adult daughters will not be flying home for the holiday this...
This is the fourth of a special four-part series about how COVID-19 is transforming local food systems—farmers markets, local farms, community and backyard gardens, and food equity. ____________________ As we head into six-plus months of stay-at-home orders, many of...
In the past decade, it seemed that many Americans were enjoying a love affair with farms and the idyllic image of small farms—think farmers markets, farm-to-table restaurants, CSA farms, school garden programs, and farm-stay vacations. Bounty From the Box: The CSA...
This is the second of a special three-part series by Martha Wagner and Mi Ae Lipe about how COVID-19 is transforming local food systems—farmers markets, local farms, and community and backyard gardens. ____________________ As we all know, no part of our lives has been...
This is the first of a special three-part series by Martha Wagner and Mi Ae Lipe about how COVID-19 has transformed the local food scene of farmers markets, farms, and victory gardens. ________________________________ It was only weeks ago that people worked in and...
These are surreal times, to say the least. On a recent trip to Portland, Oregon, my family and I went from dining out in restaurants on Saturday to relying on Caviar deliveries to our hotel room on Monday. No doubt your food options may be changing very quickly too as...