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On Sentimental Activism

about succumbing to a guilty pleasure of the (aging?) activist, that is comfortable, and deadly, and usually not doing a damn thing.

Food, Land, Food For ThoughtMeredith LeighJanuary 15, 2021activism, food, food systems Comments

On Fat

If you’ve watched a pig ambling through a field, and seen it stop, and snuff the earth, then you know what I am talking about. Stop, snuff about you, as if to thoroughly ask: What is the offering? How will the body take it on?

Food For Thought, Land, Charcuterie, Food, Meat, ButcheryMeredith LeighOctober 27, 2020#fat, #goodfat, #storedbounty, #ethicalmeat, #ethicalmeathandbook, #confit, #rillettes, #terrine, #lardo, #foodforthought Comment

Light a Good Fire

As I build fire and tend fire for smoked charcuterie, I've been musing on the building and tending of culture, which is, I feel, perhaps the greatest calling of our particular moment.

Food For Thought, Food, Charcuterie, MeatMeredith LeighOctober 6, 2020#ethicalmeat, #ethicalmeathandbook, #culture, #charcuterie, #smokedfoods, #smokingmeat, #smokedmeat, #onlinecourse, #realfood, #fire, #fall, #autumn Comment

Conversation: Dr. Tristan Reader on Indigenous Food Sovereignty

An intro to Indigenous Food Sovereignty, and how it can inform positive activism.

Land, Food For Thought, FoodMeredith LeighJune 26, 2020#conversations, #realfood, #agriculture, #culture, #activism, #justice, #foodjustice, #foodsystems, #foodforthought, #nativepeople, #indigenousfoodComment

Sausage as Muse

Food. Art. Resistance.

Charcuterie, Food, Food For Thought, MeatMeredith LeighJune 12, 2020#sausage, #sausagemaking, #salami, #salumi, #pâté, #realfood, #ethicalmeat, #charcuterie, #purecharcuterie, #purecure, #agriculture, #resistance Comment

Meat School Episode 2: Buying Meat In Community

Taking back the meat supply.

Butchery, Food For Thought, Meat, FoodMeredith LeighMay 8, 2020#meat, #ethicalmeat, #communityfood, #community, #diy, #butchery, #agricultureComment

Meat School Episode 1: Will COVID Wake us up to Ethical Meat?

Food For Thought, Land, Meat, Food, Butchery, RecipesMeredith LeighApril 28, 2020#ethicalmeat, #agriculture, #realfood, #foodsystems, #localmeat, #regionalfoodComment

You are the Imaginative Ones. You are the Hope. The Revolutionaries.

That you are ignored is the surest sign that you're revolting…

Butchery, Charcuterie, Food, Food For Thought, Land, MeatMeredith LeighOctober 7, 2019#revolution, #ethicalmeat, #agriculture, #resilience, #holism, #realfood, #communityfood, #unlearning, #vision Comment

Cooking is the New Communism

on the smartness of millennials, truth-telling with yourself, aging, and finding joy in the struggle.