Anna Hanau
By Anna Hanau
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Food Planning Your Edible Garden: It’s Seed Catalog Time
It was the first day where the temperature hadn’t risen above freezing, and I was seriously feeling January. Until I picked up my mail…and found a Johnny’s seed catalog. Pages and pages of beautiful vegetables leapt out at me, warming my heart if not my blistered hands. The night before, I had volunteered at my…
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Food Mixing Bowl: Mexican Food, Organic Meat
1-day conferences on Jewish food, sustainability and social justice announced in Chicago, Toronto and Boston Food was also a hot topic at the URJ Biennial URJ RAC Find out what happens to “Jewish” food when Eastern European Jews end up in Mexico… …or San Francisco! [SF Weekly] Growing interest in kosher organic meat gets a…
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Recipes Shabbat Meals: Dessert No Piece of Cake?
When I first started keeping a kosher home, the biggest change was dessert. True there were new sets of dishes to keep track of, and combinations of foods that were not allowed, but the thing that would trip me up the most was planning our Friday night meals. We like to serve meat on Shabbat….
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Food Family Food Fights This Holiday Season
As much as Jews love their holiday feasting, big family meals can also bring up some anxiety. Maybe you keep more kosher than your parents. Maybe less. Maybe you used to be a vegetarian, but now you eat meat, but only if it’s sustainably raised. Navigating special food needs with loved ones is fraught because…
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Food CSAs in the Aftermath of Irene
We know that farmers “make hay while the sun shines,” but what do they do when it rains…and rains…and rains…? The devastation caused by Hurricane Irene, and Tropical Storm Lee that followed on its heels, highlight the precariousness of farming and the painful, tragic effects of extreme weather events. In the wake of these storms,…
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Food Feeding Foodies: Planning for the Hazon Conference
Bring over 300+ foodies, chefs, nutritionists and rabbis together to talk about food… and you better have a good plan for what to feed them! Planning food for the Hazon Food Conference is a delightful challenge. We have a list of food values which we try to meet at all Hazon events — and yet…
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Food Preview: The Hazon Food Conference at UC Davis
At a session entitled “The University of California: Friend or Foe to Sustainable Agriculture” at this year’s Eco-Farm Conference, Tom Tomich of the UC Davis Agricultural Sustainability Institute reminded participants of how the California budget crisis may affect farming: With massive cuts to the University of California system expected, funding for agricultural research at its…
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Food When Are Your ‘First Fruits’ Really the First?
A few weeks ago, I suggested that those of us living outside the land of Israel (or in an otherwise distant place from wheat and barley cultivation) might use the Omer as a time to “count down” to the harvest of another more familiar crop that grows closer to home. What will you be looking…
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