catapult magazine

Items tagged food

• Tasting the good life

  As small farms around the world are succumbing to corporate agriculture, a southwest Michigan couple is embarking on the road of the small-scale farmer for the first time. An interview and photos tell their story and explain more about Community Supported Agriculture.

• The bodies of believers

  How do we perceive ourselves when it comes to being physically healthy? Several community members evaluate their health and health concerns.

• Unforeseen effects

  Working as a temp provides rest and opportunity to reflect on the nature of work.

• An expanding trend

  Supersize Me documents our infatuation with junk food

• Meeting God in the kitchen

  On the language of food, in the everyday and in the feast.

• German Sweet Chocolate Cake

  The story and the recipe.

• Choice cuisine

  What does it mean to truly ?eat well??

• A global network of local organic food producers

  The 24th Annual Organic Agriculture conference in Ontario addresses a range of food issues.

• What dogs will eat

  A family?s food culture is cultivated in relationship with others, human and animal.

• Butternut Squash Soup

  A simple recipe for autumn and winter.

• A casual cookbook

  Michael Chiarello?s work emphasizes that food is for sharing.

• A satisfying story

  A mini-review of the film Mostly Martha.

• Dreaming in sugar

  How food and identity are intertwined in Cristina Garcia?s Dreaming in Cuban.

• Willie

  Encounters with a neighbor in need raise questions of how to adequately meet the need.

• Feeding the hungry

  Sometimes the most immediate needs go beyond food, clothing and shelter.

• Down with diets

  On chilling about cholesterol and becoming thankful for food.

• Top Ten re: vegetables

  A personal history told from the field, table, freezer, mouth and memory.

• A good kind of stuck

  Unlikely community emerges on the other side of a record-breaking January snowstorm.

• Apple Walnut Cake

  A recipe for holistic community.

• Considering just desserts

  With a little thought and creativity, it is possible to serve up a little after-dinner justice.

• Feasting and fruitcake

  Memories and values emerge from a consideration of dessert as a child.

• The dark side of white

  An exploration of the detriments of white sugar and bleached flour, accompanied by a recipe for a friendlier dessert.

• A drive-thru epidemic

  A review of the film Fast Food Nation directed by Richard Linklater.

• Top ten things I learned from my father-in-law about how to be a Christian for real

  A list honoring Vern Boerman, who passed away on December 21, 2006.

• The Big C's of Vernon J. Boerman

  A tribute to a beloved father whose influence went well beyond his family.

• Top ten meals in recent memory

  On the moments when the ritual of gathering for food transcends the elements themselves.

• Dig in

  An interesting hobby yields financial, culinary and environmental benefits.

• God's love made edible

  The journey of a skill from a hobby to a spiritual discipline.

• The ABCs of fake family dining

  A family tours the alphabet by eating out.

• A good restaurant

  Memories and dreams inform criteria for what makes a restaurant good.