This summer, Scott Alves Barton (PhD ‘16, Food Studies, NYU) is a part of the African American Garden at the New York Botanical Garden (NYBG). It explores Black culture through the lens of plants. This three-year project This three-year project is… steinhardt.nyu.edu/news/celebrati…

NYC public school edible schoolyard breakfast The figs, greens, tomatoes, peppers and herbs = grown and harvested by the kids and their teachers P.S. 216 Gravesend (figs), P.S. 7 East Harlem (peppers and tomatoes) and herbs from the Brooklyn Gardens Elementary School

Touch, talk and taste. They made me think and work hard with my hands. Open access. “Hands called our attention because of their salience during the pandemic, which accelerated modes of digitization resulting in the deepening of a crisis of social touch.” anthrosource.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/pdf/10.111…

My take on a new translation of a book on Dalit cooking from Marathwada, India It will be in three parts. This is the first one. Thanks to Prof. Vandana Swamy and Prof. Ishita Dey in helping me navigate the related literature foodanthro.com/2024/08/26/rev…

Farah’s writing is always so thoughtful; full of remorse and regret, critical of easy consumerism “Why would two people want to sit at a dining table, with its solid, vast distance between them? Instead, we acquired a 5x3 metre length of…” vittlesmagazine.com/p/folds-of-abu…?

“Street Vendors of New York by the Numbers: Presenting the First Comprehensive Survey of NYC’s Iconic Street Vendors” - results of the first comprehensive survey. Thurs, Sept. 19th, 6-7:30 PM. NEO Philanthropy, 1001, 6th Ave 12th floor, New York, NY 10018

Brilliant and subtle. Must read Himal more often. “Afghan refugees’ stories of food. Afghans living in Delhi preserve and construct ideas of home – both the remembered home lost to war in Afghanistan, and the home of refuge they are building in India.” himalmag.com/culture/afghan…?