Gigi Berardi reads FoodWISE, part 2: Our Personal World of Food and reflects on rising COVID cases. EducationWISE is FoodWISE is protecting and social distancing: COVID on the rise. NOT FoodWISE: Making a cottage industry out of a cottage industry (COVID pastoral chic)—David Beckham chic
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FoodWISE and fierce food beliefs—what’s the deal with organic?
I read the beginning of the section on “Fierce Food Beliefs” in FoodWISE and ask us to take a serious look at organic. What’s the deal with organic? Good idea or bad idea? Biodynamics? See organic and Italy’s rich food heritage (in praise of heritage farming and biodiversity) and also: Italy says organic is all…
FoodWISE, introduction to food choices
Great fun! In my reading of FoodWISE, I now start with Part 2—ideas on food choices.
FoodWISE, food choices, food cultures
Gigi Berardi reads FoodWISE, the very beginning of Part 2—Our Personal World of Food, and mentions her summer courses at Western Washington University in business and sustainability—and food. One, focused on foods in Italy and Switzerland, as here: The Swiss Diet
FoodWISE, our journey to the science of eating, small college towns
Gigi Berardi concludes part 1 of FoodWISE, introduces what’s next in the book, and reflects on the economic conditions of small college towns, as here: coronavirus and college towns
FoodWISE, undeserving, resilience
Gigi Berardi reads FoodWISE, about the “undeserving,” and resilience. See: Who’s resilient and why does it matter? Image: resilience (my cheese cave)
FoodWISE, food security, Birchwood Food Desert Fighters, and day laborers in Mumbai
Gigi Berardi reads on food security, connecting Birchwood Food Desert Fighter with day laborers in Mumbai, and asking questions about resilience. See birchwoodfoodjustice and food desert fighters, as well as https://www.facebook.com/groups/birchwoodfooddesertfighters/ See, too: labor lives matter Image: Inexpensive and nutritious bean stew, food security is a basic human right.
FoodWISE, federal food programs, and nutritional assistance at Western Washington University
Gigi Berardi reads FoodWISE on federal nutritional assistance programs. Here is important information for food insecure students at Western Washington University: https://sustain.wwu.edu/feeding-western/
FoodWISE, food security, and coronavirus cases surging
Gigi Berardi reads from FoodWISE, we need food security—more than ever. Worldwide now, it’s not difficult to find articles like these: coronavirus redux. See From The New York Times, “Here’s what you need to know”…. The virus is surging in Latin America, pushing the region ‘to the limit.’ • Widespread problems mar Georgia’s primaries, a test…
FoodWISE, poor coronavirus science, and university double-speak
Gigi Berardi reads FoodWISE, on policies that support resilience. In her vlog last night, she had a link to Trevor Noah’s now-viral soliloquy on how society is a contract, and we don’t have a good one. Noah also speaks about Malcolm Gladwell’s principles of legitimacy (agree on what the principles are, that people enforcing principles…