The Apple Annual was held in Watsonville, California from 1910 to 1913. The festival, marketed as “An Apple Show Where Apples Grow,” was a four-day apple extravaganza [...]
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"For a seed to achieve its greatest expression, it must come completely undone. The shell cracks, its insides come out and everything changes. [...]
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The desire for spices, medicines, and crops and the subsequent movement of plants around the globe has been both a cause and a consequence of imperial expansion. [...]
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Happy Pi Day everyone! Today we trace this iconic contemporary pie ingredient back to long before it shot up as a pastry mainstay. The earliest records of rhubarb cultivation date back to [...]
At dusk on February 11, 2017, the Feast of Fables was held in a little bejeweled box in the redwoods. We gathered to witness the power created at the confluence of story, taste, and good company. [...]
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Rollin with my homies. [...]
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Since we first saw our reflection, humans have been fascinated by objects and surfaces which cast our image back to us. This week [...]
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"There is nothing older than the connection between humans, food, and storytelling."
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We began with Aphrodite's Oyster, and the tale of the Judgement of Paris. Then we looked at Cinderella in her multiple versions [...]
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We ended the last Feast with the story of Scheherazade, the Lover. She became a Persian queen [...]
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Histories are written and taught in a formal style, but myths, folk tales, and fairy tales are also [...]
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Why did the chicken cross the world? Maybe the question should be... what the heck is a chicken in the first place? [...]
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