JusTea: brewing social justice in Kenya
JusTea is an organization that aims to bring social justice to Kenyan tea farmers by providing them with small tea processing centres so that they are able to process their own tea. Justea then buys their tea directly, cutting out the middleman so that farmers are able to make a living wage. We sat down with Justea’s founder [...]
Why shared meals matter
family meals: (verb) to sit down to eat with people who may or may not be genetically related to you, but whom you have worked with to prepare food from scratch (more or less), and will take time to engage with as you eat and clean up together. I wonder if everyone has long-forgotten the [...]
10 weird foods you should try abroad
From stinky fruit to crunchy bugs to heart attack inducing burgers, these odd edibles come from far and wide and if you’re in the area, swallow your fears (literally!), and check them out! Here’s our list of 10 weird foods you should try abroad: 1. Durian Southeast Asia Known as Asia’s stinkiest fruit, if you get [...]
2 Weekends till Xmas: Baked Christmas Goodies
Well would you look at that? Christmas is only two weekends away!
The Plan a Meal Plan (with recipes!)
The exclamation “I have NO idea what to cook tonight and there is no food in the fridge!” does not justify eating cereal for dinner for three months straight. When I lived with my parents, I would often look in the fridge — even if I wasn’t hungry (the ‘boredom check’) — and whine there [...]
Top 10 Worst Carnival Foods
No trip to the fair is complete without stopping by the food stalls. We picked 10 of the most extreme and decadent treats to crop up fairs in North America.
