For this month, I present a series of four videos, featuring a food beginning with W, I, S, E. I say a few things about the food I’ve selected, give a recipe link, and then some sources for you to follow up with! For more, see: https://gigiberardi.com/ Let’s look at “E.” I’m going with “Eggplant.”…
EASY AND BEST RECIPES—for FoodWISE foods beginning with S
For this month, I present a series of four videos, featuring a food beginning with W, I, S, E. I say a few things about the food I’ve selected, give a recipe link, and then some sources for you to follow up with! For more, see: https://gigiberardi.com/ Let’s look at “S.” I’ve got snow peas,…
EASY AND BEST RECIPES—for FoodWISE foods beginning with I
https://youtu.be/urgfkUc6vWc For this month, I present a series of four videos, featuring a food beginning with W, I, S, E. I say a few things about the food I’ve selected, give a recipe link, and then some sources for you to follow up with! For more, see: https://gigiberardi.com/ Let’s look at “I.” I’ve got “Iodized…
PNB’s Wonderfully Diverse Rep
Pacific Northwest Ballet is a master in programming—variety, diversity, complexity. Case in point: Two very different PNB programs, one, all new choreography (Rep 4) and then the other, one of classical ballet’s greatest comedies, Coppélia (Rep 5). My cursory notes suggest a whole lot of great dancing. Highlights for me are below. … Rep (Program)…
COVID on USA campuses and in India news reports
Reporting from The New York Times gives us a good look as to what’s happening on college campuses, and then the current crisis in India. What has caused the crisis? Poor government policies? Poor preparedness? New variants? Lagging vaccination rates? The New York Times reports, all important information, from a FoodWISE perspective: COVID…
FoodWISE thinking—Can meat be sustainable?
See this article appearing at politico.com: https://www.politico.com/news/2021/05/23/biden-farmers-beef-climate-emissions-490237. The answer: No. FoodWISE answer: Maybe. But President Biden will need to scale up on conservation sustainability measures. For more: see gigiberardi.com #food #foodie #instafood #foodphotography #foodstagram #yummy #instagood #love #foodblogger #foodlover #delicious #follow #like #healthyfood #homemade #foodWISE #tasty #healthy #instagram #eat #corona #coronavirus # vaccine #coronavirus vaccine…
FoodWISE: Whose science should we believe?
Does bad research win? See this report on major studies that find “interesting” science with surprising conclusions is often what gets reported, even when it is not replicable. Ever watchful! The “I” in WISE tells us that being informed is important in making food choices! For more, see gigiberardi.com #food #foodie #instafood #foodphotography #foodstagram #yummy…
FoodWISE wins gold, still much work to do—see Susan Pierce Thompsons’ vlogs
FoodWISE has won several more awards, these from Human Relations Indie Book Awards (for Informational and Medical/Health writing). From FoodWISE, “We are practically wallowing in wasted food in this country. Calories are cheap, people are picky, and policies of all sorts are counterproductive for making full use of food. From farm to table, seed to…
Olivier Wevers’ “This Is Not the Little Prince”
Olivier Wevers’ This Is Not the Little Prince is a captivating and emotional work. It is demanding on the dancers for the challenging movement and ensemble psyche Wevers asks them to create onstage. The piece is both playful and dramatic, a tour de force of surrealism. As I wrote in Dance Magazine, “[the piece]…