It’s what I miss most about Rome. How could that be? Something so mundane, minor, lowly. What about the art, the architecture, the people, the food? I’ll explain. Cafes in Italy encapsulate so much of the culture at large. During these weirdly liminal weeks of re-entry into American culture—when I’ve felt like I’m two places [...]
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cafe culture
Posted in Drinks, Philosophical, Restaurants, Whimsical on July 10, 2010 | 1 Comment »
food in art: grapes and whales
Posted in Fruit, Philosophical, Seafood, Water, Whimsical, tagged American Academy in Rome, Amy Campion, Amy Campion food, eat locally, food in art, Moby Dick, roving locavore on March 4, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
At a junction of thoughts that represents some substance of my life right now: a chapter in Moby Dick; a talk about food in high art given by Leonard Barkan; the local-food-movement mantra know your food, know your farmer; swimming, during which activity my thoughts form folds with each lap and the thought that my [...]
rainy holiday in Rome
Posted in Philosophical, Trends, tagged agricultural biodiversity, American Academy in Rome, Amy Campion, eating locally, local food, locavore, Rome sustainable food, roving locavore, Slow Food, Terra Madre on December 8, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
It’s rainy, school’s out, and everything’s closed for the feast of the Immaculate Conception. We made pizza for lunch, and now Jack is busy with various projects involving wooden trains, plastic tractors, blocks, legos, paint, and books. I’m drinking espresso, listening to Let It Be, and reading various things on the Slow Food website. This [...]
braised pork & grass-roots
Posted in Dairy, Grain, Industry, Meat, Philosophical, Shopping, Trends, tagged agricoltura biologica, agricultural biodiversity, American Academy in Rome, Amy Campion food, Biola, eating locally, Food Inc. film, Lo Spicchio, local eating, local food, locavore, Rome locavore, roving locavore on November 18, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
In my last post, I attempted both to recommend Food Inc., and to criticize what I saw as the overly facile closing message (“vote with your fork”). There was more to the event, here at the American Academy in Rome, and there is a positive alternative to the dark suggestion of the film that Monsanto [...]
the Mediterranean diet as cultural heritage
Posted in Cheese, Dairy, Drinks, Fruit, Grain, Pasta, Philosophical, Seafood, Sweet Things, Trends, Vegetables, Wine, tagged agricultural biodiversity, Amy Campion, Amy Campion food, Bioversity International, Diversity for Life, Italian food culture, Mediterranean diet, roving locavore, UNESCO Italian diet, UNESCO Mediterranean diet on October 31, 2009 | 3 Comments »
Italy’s Parliament voted unanimously this summer to recommend that UNESCO list the Mediterranean diet as endangered, so that it might be protected and preserved as a part of cultural heritage. I’m interested in this public declaration, in part, for its semantic implications. Can a diet be treated as an aesthetic or religious object, or as [...]
Let’s Get Real.
Posted in Fruit, Fungi, Pasta, Philosophical, Vegetables, tagged Amy Campion, Amy Campion food, eat locally, eating locally, local eating, local food, locavore, locavore in Rome, locavore Rome, Rome sustainable food, roving locavore on September 15, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
I find that what I cook for dinner here in Rome is similar to what I cooked in Vermont or Alabama. The only difference is that the ingredients are generally better or cheaper. For example, last night I made bucatini (long, skinny tube pasta) with the ingredients I had in the fridge from previous days [...]
Cucumbers, Part I: Poetry
Posted in Philosophical, Poetry, Trends, Vegetables, tagged "The Task", "The Task" cucumber, Amy Campion, Cowper cucumber, cucumber poetry, cucumber salad, eating locally, food culture, good food movement, growing cucumbers, hothouse cucumber, local eating, locavore, modernization of food, Robert Hass cucumber, Robert Hass cucumber poem, roving locavore, William Cowper on July 22, 2009 | 1 Comment »
“If you think I am going to make A sexual joke in this poem, you are mistaken.” So says Robert Hass, in his playful poem, dryly titled “Poem With a Cucumber In It.” The poem contains etymological musings on “cumbersome” and “encumber,” musings on the Berkeley sky, memories of travel, and a rough recipe for [...]
to cultivate, v.
Posted in Philosophical, tagged Alabama locavore, Amy Campion, Amy Campion food, eat locally, roving locavore, Vermont locavore on June 12, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
I was listening to “John Wesley Harding” this morning and thinking that Bob Dylan is someone who cultivates oddness—in a way that seems oddly genuine. (But what is authenticity in a celebrity? One of the subjects of my British lit. dissertation….) Anyway, that got me thinking about what an encompassing, useful word “cultivate” is. We [...]
Poet-Intern-Farmers
Posted in Philosophical, Trends on May 24, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
There’s a great little article in the New York Times today about liberal arts undergrads getting summer internships on organic farms. I like how Kim Severson, the NYT food writer, commends the idealism and willingness to act of this “new generation,” but also winks ironically about the ways in which undergraduate idealism and willingness to [...]
The Market Is There
Posted in Eggs, Philosophical, Trends, Vegetables, tagged Alabama locavore, Amy Campion, Amy Campion food, Auburn Alabama farmers' market, conventionally grown peaches, eat locally, local food, local peaches, locavore, organic peaches, pesticides peaches, roving locavore, Southern peaches, Vermont locavore on May 22, 2009 | 1 Comment »
We went to the first farmers’ market of the year at “Ag Heritage Park” today in the drizzle. I and everyone else there seemed to be wondering the same thing: why aren’t there more farmers around here? The line for the most varied vegetable selection was almost thirty minutes long. The berry farm stand ran [...]
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