![Fertilizers and the Food Crisis](http://www.evebratman.com/wp-content/themes/oxygen/images/archive-thumbnail-placeholder.gif)
If a picture is worth a thousand words, a good map like this one must be worth at least 10,000. Fertilizer prices are up by…
![%$*! Restaurants, I'm Foraging](http://www.evebratman.com/wp-content/themes/oxygen/images/archive-thumbnail-placeholder.gif)
Yep, you heard me, Foraging. Restaurants be damned; foraging is really where food security takes on some interesting dimensions, especially in urban contexts. Michael MacDonald…
![Favorite Restaurants, part 2:Consuming African Food Without Consuming Africa](http://www.evebratman.com/wp-content/themes/oxygen/images/archive-thumbnail-placeholder.gif)
The market demand for a certain menu that exotifies African food have largely come about in the past 10-15 years; namely, since Apartheid fell and…
![Favorite Restaurants, part 1](http://www.evebratman.com/wp-content/themes/oxygen/images/archive-thumbnail-placeholder.gif)
I never wanted the blog to sink into restaurant reviews, but one restaurant is still in my mind since mid-January… It was such a good…
![A Tale of Two Breakfasts](http://www.evebratman.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/02/P1010191.jpg)
Breakfast 1. Itapeva, SP – MST settlement, Insituto da Agro-Ecologia Laudenor de Souza, 8:00 am, 16th February, 2008. To the background of chirping bird and…
![Alice Waters on Charlie Rose](http://www.evebratman.com/wp-content/themes/oxygen/images/archive-thumbnail-placeholder.gif)
Alice Waters on the Charlie Rose ShowCheck it out, if you’ve got a decent internet connection and 22 minutes to spare, you won’t be disappointed….
![Beef, Europe, and Amazonia](http://www.evebratman.com/wp-content/themes/oxygen/images/archive-thumbnail-placeholder.gif)
This week, the EU decided to (again) ban beef imports from Brazil, on the basis that the nation’s beef producers weren’t doing enough in its…
![Blogging about food](http://www.evebratman.com/wp-content/themes/oxygen/images/archive-thumbnail-placeholder.gif)
I’d much rather talk about food, eating, and our love of food than hunger and food insecurity. I am crazy about food, but I don’t…