FOOD WRITING

FOOD WRITING: We all need to eat to survive. But food is more than just sustenance. Food is political, food is communal, food is personal.

We discuss grocery stores, restaurants, food trucks and carts, the communities that have access to these as well as the communities that do not. We discuss the power of the things our families made for us and the effect these things had on our upbringing. We discuss cooking and preparing meals for ourselves, and how these things change as we grow up and grow older as well.

And stress: In a world of abundance, no one should go hungry.

Cooking, Sex, & Everything In Between

It has been said that food is better than sex. The sensations, appetites, hunger come pretty close.

Living Free in an Overproduced World

Consumption is pushed as the ultimately form of self-expression. What we eat, wear, drive, buy the dominant way through which.

Food and Physicality

When tension that could be cut with a knife was used to make noodles instead. When we still wore clothes.

The Restaurant from the Perspective of a Dishwasher

It is nearly Christmas. The year is drawing to a close and I realize I will again be late on.

When I Think of Food

I think about the plate, empty, washed by someone with wrinkled fingers forever reeking of sweat and astringent of cleaning chemicals, waiting to be full again.

After We Eat

The meal, consisting of something from the garden, something from Lake Superior, and something that Ralf across the table made with his hands for the pièce de résistance, is over.

Things Eaten and Enjoyed

Good food is meant to be eaten and enjoyed. But it is as much about what we are eating as it is about where we are eating, and who we are eating with.

Fantastic Phantasm Under Restaurant Lights

Mirrors sparkle in candlelight as the tastes and smells of food root deep root deep in memories we’ll hold onto when we’re old and gray.

Apple Sweet, Coffee Dark & Bitter

Everyone needs to eat – but not only to survive. Here we take a look at America’s relationship with food and drink.

Thoughts on Cooking At Home

Cooking rice from a big bag of it in the corner. Often potatoes, and canned black beans. Tomatoes if we were lucky, though they never lasted long.

A Taste of the Good Life

A life filled with the smell of black coffee and orange juice in the morning. Fresh bread, aged cheese, glasses of red wine at dinner…

Desperate for Something New

Going out to a restaurant is not only about the food: It’s a unique culinary experience.

Is Chipotle’s E. coli Scare Over?

Chipotle was responsible for dozens of outbreaks reported across the country, including 64 cases of Salmonella here in Minnesota. Is it a thing of the past?

Behind the Line: Amy Buckmeier and Natalie Allesee

The ladies behind the line at Heartland Restaurant share a few thoughts about the chef life.