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? […]
This month, build community while building schools. Your supper money will support Africa Classroom Connection and its work building schools in South Africa. Its work in education helps mend the wounds of Apartheid and empower young people to grow and develop as full participants in society. Africa Classroom Connection works closely with villages to build […]
This month, build healthy families with food. Your supper money will go to support to Appetite For Change, and its mission is to use growing, cooking and eating healthy foods to build strong families and communities. Appetite for Change believes food is the common denominator that can bring families together, and create healthier and wealthier communities […]
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 […]
We created this recipe for a feast at Verdant Tea’s new tea house in Minneapolis. They make an incredible chai that’s featured in this pie, with a prominent cardamom flavor and layers of spice [and you can take home their concentrate to use yourself]. This pie is creamy, flavorful, and totally addictive. To make 1 […]
This month, come to White Earth. Your supper money will support the White Earth Land Recovery Project, a Native American nonprofit based on the White Earth Indian Reservation in northern Minnesota. WELRP works on a range of issues on the reservation: – addressing economic opportunities, through Native Harvest, a food producer providing access to Indigenous foods, and a […]
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: Is there anyone in your family history who was a farmer? Describe the work they did or the […]
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 […]
by Emily Torgrimson The 1998 Sunlite looked like the perfect trailer for Eat for Equity’s great American road trip. From the looks of it, we could slap on some paint, reupholster the cushions [as my brother pointed out, trailer design lags at least a decade behind home decor trends], and hit the road running. But […]
This month, get fired up to support trans youth. Your supper money will support the Trans Youth Support Network, or TYSN, a partnership of youth and community members working together to support trans youth* in Minnesota. TYSN works to promote racial, social, and economic justice for trans youth – and it does this by building power among […]