Meet the government: Carol Higgins
byEditor’s Note: For the “Local Government” issue of Topology, we interviewed individuals who have been involved in local government in and around Three Rivers,…
food
A Michigan Saturday is good for the soul
byEditor’s note: Each Thursday, we feature a throwback piece from Topology’s predecessor, catapult magazine. In this essay from 2012, Hannah Thyberg recalls a day…
Terroir
byBread—real bread, slow bread, the kind made with flour and water and the wild yeasts captured from surrounding air—carries the taste of a place….
Bon voyage, Elisabeth!
byAfter a slight weather delay, our poetry editor for Topology, Elisabeth Wenger, is off on a five-month, cross-Atlantic sailing trip with a company that…
Saturday morning
byOn Saturday morning, when I slip out of the house and head for the farmer’s market, the rest of the family is still asleep…
Imitation home
byA flavor can flood us with memories of a time and place, and we are slammed to that place in the short film, Home…
Pay what you can
by“Food: why do some people have it, and others don’t? It just doesn’t make sense!” exclaims one interviewee featured in the short film Everybody Eats,…
Real Food Films: A sampler platter of places
byIt’s nearly impossible to talk about food without talking about place—where something was grown, where it was eaten, what culture is represented in its…
Full of joy
byGiven our enthusiasm for food—the cooking, eating, and particularly, the sharing of it—the staff of *culture is not optional (the publisher of Topology Magazine)…
The color of cuisine
byEditor’s note: Each Thursday, we feature a throwback piece from Topology’s predecessor, catapult magazine. In this essay from 2008, Jacque Rowe Fields reflects on…