Thoughts on the Table was created by Annie Myers in September of 2007. The blog serves different purposes throughout the year, though always to document thoughts and share information about current ideas and upcoming events surrounding sustainable food systems and a just trade policy.
October 2009
While I’m still the Forager for a restaurant in Manhattan, this is a job (hurrah for these!) in which the change of season is a change in the work. The search now is for seedless grapes and winter squash, sweet onions and hearty greens, odd meats (thanks to Chef Fergus) and honeycrisp apples. We can only hope that the Fall season will prove more friendly than the Summer of rain and blight. I continue to write, more often I hope, and continue to learn.
May 2009
I’ve signed another lease in Brooklyn! And and am working in Manhattan as the Forager for the Executive Chef of two Manhattan restaurants, sourcing as much of the restaurants’ food as possible from small regional farms. I will be supporting the New Amsterdam Market as it plans to go monthly next season, and Radishes and Rubbish will continue in the fall, as long as I can find funding and a student apprentice!
January 2009
Before graduation, I will be earning my Permaculture Design Certification, researching Farm-To-Institution networks, leading a series of Radishes and Rubbish field trips, and helping out with the New Amsterdam Market project. I am also applying for full time employment.
September 2008
The first semester of my final year at NYU has begun, with courses on Land Use and Housing, Politics, Social Entrepreneurship, and International Economics. Throughout the fall, a friend and I will be leading Radishes and Rubbish, a series of trips to small-scale food production and processing sites, and waste management locations, throughout the city. Do check out the project website for more information!
May 2008
My bicycle and I…are back in Brooklyn! I’ll be working this summer for the New Amsterdam Public Market Association, primarily writing essays and conversation summaries, related to Executive Director Robert Lavalva’s vision for a permanent public market at the Seaport in Manhattan. My writing may be found both here, and (soon) on the New Amsterdam website.
September 2007
Students from across the Northeast are planning a gathering at Yale on November 3rd and 4th: the Real Food Summit (see links on Home Page). We are organizing meetings, across the Northeast, in order that students working on food and agriculture within Colleges and Universities might meet each other and begin to collaborate now. The students working on this event and other relevant projects at their schools are welcome to use this site!
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