Peeling the Onion

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Archive for January, 2010

From sous-chef to baker extraordinaire!

Posted: Sunday, January 24th, 2010 @ 11:05 am in Blog | 1 Comment »

When I left home for the big city and life at university, I joined two of my sisters in a shared apartment.  Since they both had more experience in the kitchen than I did, I quickly became the de facto sous chef. I washed and tore up a lot of lettuce leaves, rolled countless chapati, [...]

Food sovereignty & community

Posted: Saturday, January 9th, 2010 @ 12:41 pm in Blog | 2 Comments »

I was interviewed the other day by Sarah Martin, as part of her work on a masters degree.  The topic at hand was food sovereignty and how it is involved in my work. The interview sparked some interesting exchanges and forced me to articulate ideas that I may not have otherwise taken the time to [...]