Feasting & Fasting: Connecting the Plate and the Planet

Issue 251 • November/December 2008

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Welcome

Focus on Food

Food is a microcosm of the macrocosm.

Frontline

A Fair Trade First

The birth of the world's first 'Fair Trade Nation'.

Beyond Words

The art of communication through touch.

Creative Construction

Re-evaluating business practice.

Rainforest Progress

Legal agreements that give hope for the future of the Amazon forests.

Keynotes

Natural Religion

Where science meets spirituality.

The Silence of the Greens

Why do environmentalists choose to ignore the problem of over-population?

Feasting & Fasting

Food for the Soul

Food has a profound capacity for meaning and conviviality.

In This Bowl

A poem from Miriam Darlington' s book Windfall.

Joy of Cooking

The kitchen is the place in the home where the juices flow.

Good Intentions

The cultural and spiritual significance of Ramadan.

Baking Bread

Baking home-made bread for the first Resurgence Slow Sunday.

Salamongundi

The joys of a traditional North Devon Christmas Festival.

The Age of Nutritionism

The bad science behind nutritionism?

Raw Vitality

Discover the raw and vegan delights of living foods.

Baking Real Bread

Modern bread is on the road to nutritional nowhere.

People's Food

The wondrous variety of the common spud.

What then should we eat?

Make an informed decision about what's on your plate.

Food Security

Eat locally and seasonally.

Regulars

Poetry - The Poetry of Ronald Duncan &

Poems from Ronald Duncan's Collected Poems.

Short Story - An Intimate Operation

For us, you were a living link to another kind of place.

Recipes - Mid-winter Festival

Joyous feasts of the winter solstice.

Nature Writers - The Moth Wood

Bringing nature writing alive with words, wit and wisdom.

Letter from America - Mission Impossible

Changing the US economy to one that respects the limits of natural systems.

In the Field - The Pink-Footed Farmers

The mystery and wonder of watching migrating birds.

Letters to the Editors - The Lie of the Land

Members' Page

Let's Feast for Resurgence Slow Sunday.

The Arts

The Space Between

Beauty lies in the places where there is seemingly nothing.

Points of Enchantment

An engaging interview with Ben Okri.

Reviews

Towards the Real

Review of Hungry City: How Food Shapes Our Lives.

Fundamental Failings

Review of Sea Change: Britain's Coastal Catastrophe.

Decisions to Succeed

Review of Plan B 3.0: Mobilizing to Save Civilization.

A Progression of Thoughts

Review of The Bill McKibben Reader: Pieces from an Active Life.

A Good Life Redefined

Review of Do Good Lives Have to Cost the Earth?

Reimagining the World

Review of The Power of Unreasonable People.

Web Exclusives

Article - Christmas Cradles

Dried fruit and good tidings, all wrapped up in a mince pie.

Article - Going with the Grain

Artisan flour-milling is playing an essential role in producing specialist flours.

Article - Health Imperative

The quality and quantity of food we produce should be in harmony.

Article - Food is Everything

Hunger created by human greed is an expression of a violent and unjust world.

Review - Books in Brief &

Review - How Are We Doing?

Review of The art of knowing where and who you are.

Review - Recommended reading

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