Natasha Rothwell takes center stage in her new Hulu series
I interviewed Natasha Rothwell and we spoke about her new Hulu show "How to Die Alone."
Does Chicago’s Only Lebanese Tasting Menu Restaurant Match Michelin’s Hype?
Checking out Beity, a Fulton Market restaurant from chef Ryan Fakih, was meant to be the highlight of my week, for good reason. The Michelin Guide recently recognized the Lebanese gastronomic experience, which opened in early August after two years of anticipation in a food scene with few Middle Eastern fine dining options.
Molokhia Is Comfort to Palestinian Americans in a Time of Profound Grief
As the world grapples with the genocide in Gaza, more and more Arab Americans are finding solidarity around warming bowls of leafy green stew.
Crabber Tia Clark challenges what it means to fish, crab, and hunt as a Black woman
When I first met Tia Clark, she told me she had recently hunted an alligator with a crossbow in the swamps of South Carolina. I saw the Gullah Geechee woman as a role model, a Black woman using her passion and athleticism to pursue a goal I’d been chasing — food sovereignty. For Clark, owner of Casual Crabbing with Tia, it’s like a call from the sea. “I don’t feel I’m choosing this. I feel like this is what I have to do,” she told Andscape.
To Find Myself, All I Needed Was A Hunting License
My maternal grandmother was a sharecropper—part of a system of indentured servitude for Black people in the South, with only marginally more freedom or wages than chattel slavery. Landowners monitored our behaviors, evicting us for whatever they deemed to be “misconduct.” Large groups of Black people were only permitted on the land for Sunday service, and every part of our existence had to be rented from white landowners, putting us in perpetual debt.
When we’d drive down to Alabama to visit de
When we’d drive down to Alabama to visit de
Harvesting Heritage at Arizona's Indigenous Farms
In The Grand Canyon state, Indigenous-owned farms growing heirloom crops are preserving Native history while offering a window to the future.
The role of food in the movement for Palestine
For Reem Assil, a Palestinian-Syrian social justice activist, chef, and owner of Reem’s California, food is integral to resistance. She organized for ten years prior to becoming a chef. Community organizing is a key pillar of her culinary philosophy now, with many projects, including her worker-owned co-op restaurants, a groundbreaking commitment in the culinary world where private ownership abounds. “People always say that I was a former organizer turned chef, and I say, ‘No, food just happens to be the tool in my toolkit through which I’m organizing people now,’” Assil tells Mondoweiss.
For Reem Assil, Food Is A Tool For Palestinian Liberation
Many across the world are seeing the horror of the occupation of Palestine for the first time. But for Palestinians like Assil, this reality is one they were born into—a reality shaping both their fondest memories and deepest pains.
“I went to Gaza once in 1994, and that was a pivotal moment in my understanding of my own identity,” Assil says. She was 11 years old, and Israeli forces were dismantling settlements in the Gaza Strip after destroying all the infrastructure.
“I went to Gaza once in 1994, and that was a pivotal moment in my understanding of my own identity,” Assil says. She was 11 years old, and Israeli forces were dismantling settlements in the Gaza Strip after destroying all the infrastructure.
My Partner Is Curious About Polyamory, But I’m Not. What Now?
What happens if your partner is the one who’s interested in exploring polyamory… and you’re not?
Food is no longer a main character on The Bear
When the food stopped being exciting, the show followed suit. Instead of being a show about how cooking and eating bring people together, it became like the same old New American tasting menu fare. It reminded me of the RS Benedict essay “Everyone is beautiful and no one is horny,” about the stripping of authentic sexuality and sensuality from film. Except in The Bear, every dish is beautiful and no one is hungry (or horny, for that matter but that’s a different article).