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Food & Spirituality: The Science and Practice of Mindful Eating
I never mean for it to happen. I make enough pasta for two meals, and the idea is, I’ll eat half the bowl, and save the rest for tomorrow. What happens is, I’m watching TV, and then at some point, I...
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Food & Spirituality: Fall Feast with Armenians in San Francisco
All in a day’s work: Father Mesrop Ash of St. John’s Armenian Apostolic Church in San Francisco stacks his plate with kufta. The Armenian version is a lamb meatball stuffed within a lamb meatball....
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Food & Spirituality: Celebrating Meskel With Ethiopians in Oakland
Ethiopian Christians are righteously proud of their relationship to the religion, stretching back to the first century AD. Of all the Oriental Orthodox branches, theirs is the largest…and arguably,...
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Food & Spirituality: Using Plants as Medicine In San Francisco Botanicas
Lupe is consulting a customer at her shop, Botanica Los Sueños, in San Francisco’s Mission District. (Like other healers I interviewed, Lupe didn’t want her last name used in this story, saying it is...
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Food & Spirituality: A Visit to Charles Phan’s Home Kitchen
Charles Phan is a local boy, through and through: before he became a celebrity chef with the runaway success of the Slanted Door, he went to UC Berkeley and Mission High School. He spent his teen...
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Open Secret’s Radiance Cuisine: Food + Kirtan to Recharge Body, Mind and Spirit
Radiance kirtan band playing at Open Secret Bookstore. Photos and video by Wendy Goodfriend Who says spring cleaning is just about organizing closets and washing dirty windows? The change of seasons...
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Newcomers Enhance Bay Area’s Small Kosher Dining Scene
Guests at the “Haimish Wandering Kitchen” kosher pop-up in San Francisco. Photo: Alix Wall San Francisco is widely considered one of the best dining destinations in the country, if not the world. That...
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Beyond The Kibbutz: A Jewish Farm Renaissance
Photo courtesy of the Adamah farm at the Isabella Freedman Jewish Retreat Center. By Jonathan Frochtzwajg, Civil Eats (9/22/14) Editor’s note: This is the first in a multipart series about the...
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5 Halloween Food Myths Unmasked
Myth: Halloween has always been synonymous with mass quantities of candy. Illustration by Lila Volkas Illustrations by Lila Volkas 1) Myth: Halloween has always been synonymous with mass quantities of...
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Ayurveda: A Journey Towards Balance Using Food As Medicine
I’m sitting cross-legged with a group of 15 people, passing around a bowl of mango slices for a taste of something sweet, then a tray of lemon wedges makes its way around the circle and everyone...
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Detoxing The Buddhist Way: Nuns Preserve Art Of Korean Temple Food
Sun Woo directs the visitor program at Jingkwansa, a Buddhist temple outside Seoul famous for preserving the art of Korean temple food. Behind her are giant jars filled with fermented soybeans. (Ari...
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Fighting World Hunger The Buddhist Way: Walk to Feed the Hungry with Buddhist...
In 2007, Bhikkhu Bodhi was disenchanted with a growing trend he saw in the American Buddhism community. The Theravada Buddhist monk, the author of several influential translations of Buddhist texts,...
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DIY: Make Your Own Jar of Ghee, aka “Liquid Gold”
Ghee, or Indian clarified unsalted butter, is delicious and easy to make at home. Regular butter is transformed through a sacred cooking process that evaporates the water and separates the milk solids....
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Thou Shalt Not Toss Food: Enlisting Religious Groups To Fight Waste
Separation of church and state? When it comes to fighting food waste, the U.S. government is looking to partner up with the faithful. The Environmental Protection Agency on Monday launched the Food...
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Hunting and Fishing at the SF Green Film Festival
How does the food we eat end up on our plates? Decades in to an increasingly active and aware food movement, this question still yields perplexing and complicated responses. For we carnivores, the...
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Wat Mongkolratanaram: Berkeley’s Thai Temple Celebrates the New Year
Wat Mongkolratanaram, Berkeley’s Thai Buddhist Temple. (Kim Westerman) On a quiet residential street in South Berkeley, Wat Mongkolratanaram, a Thai Buddhist Temple, is a splash of color on a street...
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What The Real Witches Of America Eat
What do witches eat? If you’re thinking of blood and feathers and cauldrons bubbling with eye of newt and toe of frog, you couldn’t be more off-menu. The correct, and disappointingly dull, answer is...
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Jews Feast on Forbidden Foods to Remember Rabbis’ Radical Banquet
When a journalist and chef made the decision to host a dinner party and invite members of the Illuminoshi (a not-so-secret society of San Francisco Bay Area Jewish food professionals) to eat a meal of...
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Wellness as Resistance with Steadfast Herbs
For farmers market shoppers, it’s common to know the farmer who grew your tomato, but you’re less likely to know the person who grew the chamomile and mint in your tea, or the ingredients in an herbal...
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2019 Guide to Summer Farm Adventures in the Bay Area
More on Farms and Farmers Craving a delicious excuse to get out of the city and back to the land? Pick perfectly ripe strawberries, pet baby goats, or shuck freshly harvested oysters by the bay, while...
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