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Farm to Table: The Emerging American Meal

If you are interested in any of these areas of food ... please consider writing for us, either as an editor, a regular staff writer or a freelance journalist. At the moment, there is no pay associated, but you'll get your name out there, and once we get sponsorship, there will be the possibility for compensation.

The area descriptions are:

• arm/sust. ag issues
• nutrition (e.g. real butter vs. margarine)
• food safety issues (e.g. GMOs or BPA in canned food)
• food politics and policy
• recipes and real food preparation (e.g. how to make sauerkraut or butter)
• nation-wide realfood restaurant and food biz reviews, etc.

See also:

http://www.zacharyadamcohen.com/farmtotable/media/the-sustainable-food-movement-needs-to-stories/

Excerpt:

The Sustainable Food Movement Needs To Tell Stories

by ZACHARY ADAM COHEN on FEBRUARY 12, 2010

Posted in: MEDIA

Well I think there is a light at the end of this national food nightmare that we are currently experiencing. I see a very bright future for America and, as those of us in the movement know, it all starts each and every day, with the food we eat. For me, this is the departure point for the stories we need to tell. We need to connect that daily, rather quotidian act of eating, into a series of sacred moments where the people, places and stories of the sustainable food movement are elevated into something almost religious.We need to tell more stories. And we need to do a better job of telling the stories that we currently have. As our culture and society continues to undergo a great value reset, brought on by a mixture of the end of the Bush administrations’ problematic legacy, the election of Barack Obama, and the Great Recession, American’s are looking to be comforted. We all want to be reassured that things are going to be OK, that there is hope and light at the end of this tunnel.

So Where Are The Stories To Be Found?

They are all around us, but we’ve got to do the digging. Liza de Guia is carving out a wonderful career for herself chronicling all manner of sustainable food stories, just in New York City alone. Liza is one of our most gifted storytellers, and I, for one, would love Liza to help the rest of us find the ability to discover, research and tell those stories...

Read the full article at: http://www.zacharyadamcohen.com/farmtotable/media/the-sustainable-food-movement-needs-to-stories/

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Zachary Adam Cohen
February 15 at 5:12pm

Hey all, well Farm to Table 2.0 gets going in a big way. Now with Khaled Allen at the helm, though Zach is still helping out a bit. We've got 3 great posts to tell you about in case you missed them. The first is by Khaled and is an essay on the significance of Jamie Oliver, Britain's Naked Chef, winning the TED prize. Here is the linkhttp://www.zacharyadamcohen.com/farmtotable/people-power/ted-winner-jamie-oliver-calls-for-us-to-lead-the-way-in-local-food/

Secondly, I returned to blogging at Farm to Table with a post on the need for more evolved story telling from the sustainable food community. We are nothing without our stories and we need to take hold of the narrative of local foods.http://www.zacharyadamcohen.com/farmtotable/media/the-sustainable-food-movement-needs-to-stories/

And last but not least, Leda Meredith chimes in with a wonderful look at Food Preservation and its importance to the local foods movement. A brief overview with some handy tips on how to get started.http://www.zacharyadamcohen.com/farmtotable/local-foods/why-food-preservation-is-an-important-part-of-eating-local-and-two-ways-to-get-started/

In short, a great roundup of content. In particular, Khaled's essay is pretty tremendous. It's clear that taking hold of the reins of Farm to Table is giving Khaled an appropriate confidence boost. I think we'll see him emerge as a great young leader in the sustainable food community. I could not be more thrilled that Khaled is stepping up to the plate, we should all support him in this. And soon the blog will be migrating to a new site so no one will have to worry about it being associated with little old me. In the meantime, we want to harness the terrific traffic of Farm to Table and push out a lot of really great content. To that end....

We are still looking for great talent to write, not FOR us, but WITH us. We have big plans for Farm to Table but definitely need your help. If you already have a blog, great! we'd love to cross post your content. If you haven't started one yet, come join us and we'll take care of the nasty tidbits like uploading and editing and you can just sit back and enjoy the fruits of your labor.

For some guidelines and article suggestions, check out this brand new page we've launched.

http://www.zacharyadamcohen.com/farmtotable/write-for-us/

Regards,

ZAC