Some random thoughts and information on sake, spillover from the process of writing Rice, Water, Earth: Travels through Japan’s Artisanal Sake Culture with my co-author, sake sommelier and Sake Samurai Michael Tremblay. Look for it from Tuttle Publishing in Spring 2022.
Kimura’s method is “beyond organic,” using no chemical or organic fertilizers, no pesticides, and no compost. Instead plant life is nourished by harnessing beneficial soil microbes that work in concert with local insect, animal, and bird life. Kimura believes that too often plants are overfed when everything they need to thrive exists in the natural environment.
Following the Jola traditions of Gambia, and made possible by the region’s warming climate, Nfamara Badjie is cultivating rice in an unusual setting—and harvesting to the rhythm of the African drum.
"The focal point of book is the struggle against the negative effects of concentrated wealth and power that just happen to play out in the Central Valley in land, water, and the food system. The same dynamic is happening all over the world.
“We are on the first plane to pop the Atlantic bubble when it opens up to the nation on Canada Day.” Traveling to St. John’s and Fogo Island, on the far east coast of North America.
Industrial farming drained wealth from rural America. In his new book, Meter says community food systems can repair the damage.
Forthcoming from UCLA’s Asian American Studies Press, my decade-long passion project: the translation of my grandparents’ book of Japanese poetry, By the Shore of Lake Michigan.