Tangible manifestations
byCommunity gives us roots. Being invested in a local community—both in terms of relationships and location—helps to ground our lives and our social action…
Less is more
by David StewartWhen I watch Naturali Tea—one of the final nominees in the 2016 Real Food Films competition—its lush greenery and charming pastoral vistas give rise…
Room within us
by the daily asteriskLove is the power that enables people to make the movements of a singing community. It is the discipline and the disposition that equips…
Imitation home
by Julie KeeferA flavor can flood us with memories of a time and place, and we are slammed to that place in the short film, Home…
A person of good faith
by the daily asteriskIf I’m to be a person of good faith, each day is an occasion to imagine with greater accuracy and appreciation the net, the…
Pay what you can
by Deborah Haak“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,…
Outrageous stimulation
by the daily asteriskA multitude of causes, unknown to former times, are now acting with a combined force to blunt the discriminating powers of the mind, and…
Real Food Films: A sampler platter of places
by Kirstin Vander Giessen-ReitsmaIt’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…
I need freedom too!
by the daily asteriskI’ma wade, I’ma wave through the waters Tell the tide, “Don’t move” I’ma riot, I’ma riot through your borders Call me bulletproof Lord forgive…
Full of joy
by Deborah HaakGiven 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)…