The two-day festival in Duluth will feature a wide range of activities, performances and food that highlights Japanese culture and lifestyle.
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Atlanta’s David Scott: First Black chair to oversee nation’s food supply legislation
Congressman David Scott, of Atlanta, the first Black chairman of the House Agriculture Committee, is preparing to oversee the formation of the nation’s central food supply legislation.
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Fighting food insecurity: Local co-ops help increase food access
In two of the state’s most populous counties — Fulton and DeKalb — 11.3 percent and 10.5 percent of residents, respectively, are food insecure, meaning they lack consistent access to food. The issue is persistent in urban and rural areas throughout the state, according to 2019 data from Feeding America. However, local food cooperatives are […]
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Reporter’s Notebook: The One in Atlanta – The Friends Experience
Atlanta has ranked #4 on the EPA’s 2021 Top Cities list, which spotlights cities with the most Energy Star certified buildings. Our city has 329 certified environmentally friendly buildings, compared to the top-ranking Los Angeles with 587. Certified buildings use an average of 35% less energy than an average building. On to other local news: […]
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Soil Festival – Food Well Alliance at Truly Living Well – May 22, 2021
Note: This scaled-back Soil Festival was planned in response to Covid. Hopefully the great Soil Festival will return in its full glory in 2022. Kelly
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Eat Okra, Black and Mobile are helping Black-owned restaurants all over metro Atlanta
Last year the restaurant industry lost over $240 billion in sales, and that decline is continuing into 2021. These tech entrepreneurs are hoping to change that for Black-owned businesses, though. By Allison Joyner Due to the risk of spreading COVID-19, restaurants have had to depend on food delivery service apps to help them stay afloat. […]
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Atlanta Fed president: ‘It’s going to be tough’; Prices up for agricultural commodities
The Federal Reserve confirmed the obvious Wednesday – “Economic activity contracted sharply and abruptly across all regions in the United States as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic.” Price hikes are reported across the Southeast in grains, milk and eggs, as well as demand for oranges.
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Eat your vegetables: Atlanta joins effort to grow food for those underserved
By David Pendered Atlanta is joining the ranks of New York City and Sacramento, Ca. in promoting urban agriculture, a fast-growing trend that promotes the growing of plant food in and near the urban core of a metropolitan area. Atlanta Mayor Kasim Reed announced Sept. 2 that he has created and posted the position of […]
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Weekly potluck dinner turns Atlanta friends into family
The bonds of family and friendship can be created through the sacrament of a regular shared mealtime, and it doesn’t have to be as seldom or elaborate as the big Thanksgiving event many of us will travel thousands of miles to celebrate this Thursday.
For several years, Owen Mathews has hosted what he calls Potluck Dinner every week at his Midtown studio. It has grown into a broad range of young to early-middle aged professionals of assorted ethnic backgrounds and experiences.
“It’s almost like we have family dinner once a week,” said Sara Le Meitour, who is engaged to another potluck regular.
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Southern misperceptions tackled in Decatur author’s “Eat Drink Delta”
So much of the South is misunderstood by outsiders, and a trustworthy guide like Susan Puckett helps the rest of us understand where we live. Her new book, “Eat Drink Delta: A Hungry Traveler’s Journey through the Soul of the South” (University of Georgia Press), takes readers on a trip into the complicated culture and food of a strip of Mississippi often maligned for its poverty, obesity and backwardness.
Her ground-level stories of the people and crops, their traditions and dishes, bring to life the coexistence of different races and classes in one of America’s most fertile areas. The Delta is synonymous with blues, and Puckett, a Decatur author of six previous books who served as food editor for the Atlanta Journal-Constitution for 18 years, explored the connection between the hard stories and soulful food.
