catapult magazine

vol. 7, num. 4 :: 2008.02.22 — 2008.03.07

Individual, family, neighborhood, region, country—cultures form around food at a variety of levels. How does food both separate us from each other and bring us together?

Feature

Cooking chicken wat

by Deborah Leiter Nyabuti

How international dishes can help us explore the world and acknowledge our limitations.

Editorial

The food of the future

by Kirstin Vander Giessen-Reitsma

A Food-a-Rac-a-Cycle for every church…or a new way that leads to old understanding?

Articles

The color of cuisine

by Jacque Rhodes

A reflection on the way oppression has shaped U.S. diets.

Give me my daily bread?

by Abby Jansen

A prophetic prayer to feed the hungry in our communities and around the world.

The cultural cook

by Kari Stewart

On exploring culture through cookbooks.

An unabridged and definitive history of food

by Adam Navis

From the discovery of food to the unexplored heights and depths of the edible universe.

Reviews

Grant’s recommendations 2.22.08

by Grant Elgersma

Jim Wallis spreads the good news and the Conchords mock-rock NYC.

The flutter

by Raymond Blanton

A review of the film The Diving Bell and the Butterfly about rediscovering life after a paralyzing stroke.

Kirstin’s recommendations 2.22.08

by Kirstin Vander Giessen-Reitsma

Collage in the music of Liz Janes, the dissolution of racial prejudice in Monster’s Ball and cultural awareness in The Story of the Weeping Camel.

Gallery

In case you missed it the first time

Dreaming in sugar

by Sarah Bakker

How food and identity are intertwined in Cristina Garcia?s Dreaming in Cuban.

A drive-thru epidemic

by Raymond Blanton

A review of the film Fast Food Nation directed by Richard Linklater.

The ABCs of fake family dining

by Liz Janes

A family tours the alphabet by eating out.

Weaving the web

Land, Farmer, Community: A Sacred Trust

Orion Magazine

Farmers in Japan practice natural agriculture...for world peace.

Patty Cake, Patty Cake, Baker’s SHAME

The Gallery of Regrettable Food

Mockery is a form of flattery…isn’t it? Photos of themed cakes from a 1956 cookbook.

Take this bread

Killing the Buddha

An unlikely convert learns that believing and understanding don't always arrive at the same time.

daily asterisk

Even in a country you know by heart
its hard to go the same way twice
the life of the going changes.
The chances change and make a new way.
Any tree or stone or bird
can be the bud of a new direction. The
natural correction is to make intent
of accident. To get back before dark
is the art of going.

Wendell Berry
“Traveling at Home” from Traveling at Home

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