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A Year of Many Homes

By Emily Torgrimson In the last year, I’ve lived with a newborn and with newlyweds. I’ve lived with teachers, a writer, a lawyer in training, graphic designers, an explorer, a park ranger. I’ve lived in a castle like mansion, a basement apartment, a cooperative duplex, a hobby farm. I’ve lived in different parts of the […]

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Seattle’s thank you message!

We’re less than two weeks away from next fundraising dinner that will benefit Queer Youth Space. As we excitedly plan this fourth dinner (it’s our first dinner as an official branch!), we want to acknowledge the organizations, businesses, and individuals in our community that have generously donated food, supplies, and their time and support. In […]

A Place at the Table and a Tale of Two Cities

By Emily Torgrimson for Food Bloggers Against Hunger I’d like to tell you a tale of two cities –  Minneapolis, Minnesota, and Belo Horizonte, Brazil. You might think these cities couldn’t be farther apart, or more different. They are on opposite ends of the world. But, like Minneapolis, Belo Horizonte is the largest city in […]

Do you speaka my language?

By Emily Torgrimson I am fluent in Food. For me, food has become almost a native language – I speak it, I think it, I dream it. And of course, I eat it. I am, however, not yet so comfortable with the two new languages I’ve been learning this year. Hables Legalese? Sprechen Sie Construction? […]

Trailer as Metaphor for Life

This trailer is a metaphor for many things. This trailer is a tool. Through this process of rebuilding the trailer, we’re building relationships. One weekend, a total stranger volunteered to work on the trailer. Brian had been to just one Eat for Equity, and although he hated to cook, he loved to work with his […]

The Kitchen Disasters That Should Have Been

by Emily Torgrimson We were inspired by Organic Valley‘s Earth Dinner cards, which encourage all of us to celebrate the earth one dinner at a time – and to ask each other questions all about food. This card struck us: What was the biggest kitchen disaster you can remember?  By the nature of what we […]

Eat for Equity shirts

We’ll have Eat for Equity t-shirts for sale: sweatshop free, made in America and printed by a local screenprinter. After costs, all money goes toward Eat for Equity. Here’s a picture of the handsome Torgrimson family sporting the tee! Place your order with Stuart at stu (at) eatforequity (dot) org.

This month in Minneapolis…

On December 12, come to Vietnam. Eat good food, drink good drinks, enjoy good people. And do some small good for a larger community at this month’s benefit shindig. Last month, we celebrated Eat for Equity’s two year anniversary. Over two years, we’ve sent more than $5,000 to organizations working toward equity, both on a local and global level. Last month, we […]