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Based in Toronto, Canada, Nancy Matsumoto is a writer and editor who covers sustainable agriculture, food, sake, arts and culture.

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Jun 23
Jun 23 Love Story, With Lettuce

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AARP Magazine

Personal Best/My Cause

Activist Karen Washington brings healthy produce to low-income neighborhoods

May 26
May 26 The Rock Stars of Back-to-the-Land Farming

Nancy Matsumoto
YES! Magazine

Each generation has had one common desire: to live a more honest, ethical life of self-sufficiency and oneness with nature.

May 1
May 1 Why Mexican Chefs, Farmers And Activists Are Reviving The Ancient Grain Amaranth

Nancy Matsumoto
NPR/The Salt

Bringing amaranth back to Oaxaca is part of a wider movement to revive native crops and cuisines.

Mar 22
Mar 22 Why More Farmers Are Making The Switch To Grass-Fed Meat And Dairy

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NPR/The Salt

How some grass-fed dairy and meat business are helping their suppliers convert to more sustainable ways, one farm at a time.

Mar 6
Mar 6 Sage Advice from the Brightest Minds of Sustainable Agriculture

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Medium

What three dozen leaders have to say about food, farming and our future.

Jan 30
Jan 30 The Best Izakaya in Toronto—and What to Eat and Drink There

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Food & Wine

Toronto's Izakaya scene is bustling. Here, a guide to the best spots in town and what you should be sampling there. Sake pairings included.

Jan 10
Jan 10 Sustainable Meat Supporters and Vegan Activists Both Claim Bullying

Nancy Matsumoto
Civil Eats

Two vocal groups that share a distaste for factory farming are increasingly at odds.

 

Jan 4
Jan 4 Izumi Sake: A Great Brewery by a Great Lake

Nancy Matsumoto
Sake Today

Profile of local Toronto sake Brewery Izumi Ontario Spring Water Sake Company and its founder and president, Ken Valvur.

Nov 10
Nov 10 Rumiko Obata, Obata Sake Brewery

Nancy Matsumoto
Sake Today

A fifth-generation sake brewery owner forsakes life in the big city and returns home to Sado Island, ushering the family business into a new era of international prominence.

Oct 25
Oct 25 Tina Antolini and Sara Camp Milam are Tracking Southern Food Culture

Nancy Matsumoto
Food & Wine, Civil Eats

With a print journal and a podcast, these two women are exploring the rich culinary history of the changing American south

Oct 7
Oct 7 Inside a Magical Pine-Themed Dinner

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Food & Wine

Watching chef-artist Michael Stadtländer in his element, a 100-acre Ontario forest, conjuring a 12-course dinner with wine pairings. 

Aug 23
Aug 23 Williamsburg’'s New Fish Butcher Aims to Prevent Food Waste

Nancy Matsumoto
Edible Brooklyn

Osakana specializes in high-quality sustainable fish and offers classes in cooking and butchering fish.

Aug 2
Aug 2 Meet the Bee Heroes Working On the Front Lines to Save Pollinators

Nancy Matsumoto
Civil Eats

Can these scientists help our pollinators before it's too late?

Jun 28
Jun 28 Inside a Minimalist Florida Kitchen

Nancy Matsumoto
The Wall Street Journal

Annotated Room: Colombian-born designer Catalina Echavarria wanted to create ‘hang-out space’ drenched in white for her family’s home in Coconut Grove, Fla. A look at the costs.

Jun 20
Jun 20 This City Slicker Couple Makes Some of the Northeast’s Best Cheese

Nancy Matsumoto
Edible Manhattan

In addition to the city’s top cheese shops and Greenmarkets, you’ll find Consider Bardwell’s cheese at Daniel, Eleven Madison Park and Roberta’s.

Jun 14
Jun 14 The Grassfed Burger Gap

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Civil Eats

The number of restaurants serving grassfed burgers is growing, but most are eschewing ground beef from small-scale U.S. producers in favor of foreign meat.

Jun 1
Jun 1 Erin Fairbanks is Broadcasting Food System Change, Live From Brooklyn

Nancy Matsumoto
Food & Wine

How the executive director of Heritage Radio Networks grew into her role as a food systems thought leader.

May 6
May 6 Revisiting Toyo Miyatake: Infinite Shades of Gray: An interview with Robert Nakamura and Karen Ishizuka

Nancy Matsumoto
DiscoverNikkei.org

Revisiting the work of modernist photographer-turned prison camp inmate and documentarian Toyo Miyatake.

May 1
May 1 Powered by Microbials: Organic Farming, Japanese Style

Nancy Matsumoto
Acres USA

My visit to Konohana Family, an intentional community and organic farm at the foot of Mt. Fuji.

Mar 15
Mar 15 The Good (& Green) Life: Say "aloha" to Constantin Bisanz, tech start-up entrepreneur

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Naturally Danny Seo

Bisanz sold his company to eBay for millions; his new mission is to democratize healthy living with his online wellness comapany ALOHA

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Nancy Matsumoto is a writer and editor based in Toronto, Canada.