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Feasting & Fasting: Connecting the Plate and the Planet
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Welcome
Focus on Food • Satish Kumar
Food is a microcosm of the macrocosm.
Frontline
A Fair Trade First • Paul Kingsnorth
The birth of the world's first 'Fair Trade Nation'.
Beyond Words • Sophie Poklewski Koziell
The art of communication through touch.
Creative Construction • Tara Fridhandler
Re-evaluating business practice.
Rainforest Progress • Paul Kingsnorth
Legal agreements that give hope for the future of the Amazon forests.
Keynotes
Natural Religion • Colin Tudge
Where science meets spirituality.
The Silence of the Greens • David Nicholson-Lord
Why do environmentalists choose to ignore the problem of over-population?
Feasting & Fasting
Food for the Soul • Thomas Moore
Food has a profound capacity for meaning and conviviality.
In This Bowl • Miriam Darlington
A poem from Miriam Darlington' s book Windfall.
Joy of Cooking • Madhu Suri Prakash
The kitchen is the place in the home where the juices flow.
Good Intentions • Zia Sardar
The cultural and spiritual significance of Ramadan.
Baking Bread • Giuseppe Mascoli
Baking home-made bread for the first Resurgence Slow Sunday.
Salamongundi • John Moat
The joys of a traditional North Devon Christmas Festival.
The Age of Nutritionism • Michael Pollan
The bad science behind nutritionism?
Raw Vitality • Laura Van Marle
Discover the raw and vegan delights of living foods.
Baking Real Bread • Andrew Whitley
Modern bread is on the road to nutritional nowhere.
People's Food • Mark Dowie
The wondrous variety of the common spud.
What then should we eat? • Will Tuttle
Make an informed decision about what's on your plate.
Food Security • Jonathon Porritt
Eat locally and seasonally.
Regulars
Poetry - The Poetry of Ronald Duncan • Anna Trussler & Alan Munton
Poems from Ronald Duncan's Collected Poems.
Short Story - An Intimate Operation • Andrew Wingfield
For us, you were a living link to another kind of place.
Recipes - Mid-winter Festival • Daphne Lambert
Joyous feasts of the winter solstice.
Nature Writers - The Moth Wood • Roger Deakin
Bringing nature writing alive with words, wit and wisdom.
Letter from America - Mission Impossible • Laird Townsend
Changing the US economy to one that respects the limits of natural systems.
In the Field - The Pink-Footed Farmers • Jules Pretty
The mystery and wonder of watching migrating birds.
Letters to the Editors - The Lie of the Land
Members' Page • Tracey Benton
Let's Feast for Resurgence Slow Sunday.
The Arts
The Space Between • Suzy Murphy
Beauty lies in the places where there is seemingly nothing.
Points of Enchantment • Sarah Fulford
An engaging interview with Ben Okri.
Reviews
Towards the Real • Marian Van Eyk McCain
Review of Hungry City: How Food Shapes Our Lives.
Fundamental Failings • Philip Marsden
Review of Sea Change: Britain's Coastal Catastrophe.
Decisions to Succeed • Miguel Mendonça
Review of Plan B 3.0: Mobilizing to Save Civilization.
A Progression of Thoughts • Rasoul Sorkhabi
Review of The Bill McKibben Reader: Pieces from an Active Life.
A Good Life Redefined • Rosie Pearson
Review of Do Good Lives Have to Cost the Earth?
Reimagining the World • David Boyle
Review of The Power of Unreasonable People.
Web Exclusives
Article - Christmas Cradles • Julia Ponsonby
Dried fruit and good tidings, all wrapped up in a mince pie.
Article - Going with the Grain • Nick Jones
Artisan flour-milling is playing an essential role in producing specialist flours.
Article - Health Imperative • Satish Kumar
The quality and quantity of food we produce should be in harmony.
Article - Food is Everything • Vandana Shiva
Hunger created by human greed is an expression of a violent and unjust world.
Review - Books in Brief • Juliette Griffiths & Sophie Poklewski Koziell
Review - How Are We Doing? • Paul Kingsnorth
Review of The art of knowing where and who you are.
