Articles by Esperanza Rossi
Esperanza Rossi lives in the San Francisco Bay Area and publishes recipes and articles that explore how food and food choices play an integral role in maintaining health and shaping sustainable communities at the local level and beyond. Esperanza blogs at Integral Living and Eating, and you can also follow her on Twitter and Facebook
Within the contemporary food movement, Detroit is well known as an an important site of food justice activism. In a city in which 500,000 out of 900,000 citizens are food insecure, a multitude of grassroots projects have emerged to rebuild Detroit into a sustainable urban environment for the future.
In Recipe for America, Jill offers a quick and accessible overview of the numerous problems that plague our food system. She touches on the existence of food desserts across the US, the rise of the American chemical industry and its connections to the Green Revolution, as well as the effects of heavy agricultural chemical inputs on the environment and our bodies. She also explores the variety of solutions emerging around the creation of a sustainable food system, including new organic farming techniques, farmers markets, CSAs, and food policy councils.
Just like that, a new set of flavors livens up our meals and excite our palates. Ironically, I am now feeling nostalgic for those winter vegetables I know will soon disappear.
I never quite know what to do with celery. I usually buy a bunch when I need to use a couple of stalks for a recipe, and then I am stuck with the rest of the bunch. Too often those lonely forgotten stalks have languished in my fridge, turning paler and more rubbery by the day. This soup provides a simple yet delicately rich solution for using up those extra stalks of celery.
