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The cook who picks cotton: reclaiming my roots
Chefs with Issues is a platform for chefs, writers and farmers we love, fired up for causes about which they're passionate. Michael W. Twitty is a culinary historian, living history interpreter and...
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Chefs with Issues: Buying food is a political act
Chefs with Issues is a platform for chefs and farmers we love, fired up for causes about which they're passionate. Jay Pierce is the chef at Lucky 32 Southern Kitchen in Greensboro and Cary, North...
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Cafeteria workers win right to eat expired food at their own risk
While some New Yorkers are fighting for their right to drink sugary beverages, unionized cafeteria workers in a small Western Pennsylvania school district have fought for - and won - their right to eat...
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Chefs with Issues: Immigrants in the kitchen
Chefs with Issues is a platform for chefs and farmers we love, fired up for causes about which they're passionate. John Currence is the chef and owner of City Grocery Restaurant Group in Oxford,...
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Afghan farmers swapping opium poppies for spice
Click to watch video In several Afghan provinces the fight to curb the growing of opium poppies seems to be a losing battle. In 2011 a United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime survey said opium poppy...
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Comments: the cost of immigrant kitchen labor
Chef John Currence's recent essay on the use of immigrant labor in restaurant kitchens sparked a debate that's still raging in the article's comments section. Hundreds of people weighed in, and over...
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World Food Day: Crisis in Mali
Peter Biro is a writer and photographer for the International Rescue Committee. He reports on refugee and humanitarian issues in Southeast/Central Asia and Africa. The heat inside the small medical...
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Childhood malnutrition has long lasting effects
Click to watch video Deborah Feyerick is a CNN correspondent. See part one of this series Witnesses to Hunger: A portrait of food insecurity in America and read producer Sheila Steffen's $30 grocery...
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Your shrimp and tea may have been harvested by slaves
Click to watch video Editor's Note: Anti-trafficking expert Siddharth Kara is the author of “Bonded Labor: Tackling the System of Slavery in South Asia,” providing the first comprehensive overview of...
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Does it matter who grew your food?
Editor's note: The Southern Foodways Alliance delves deep in the history, tradition, heroes and plain old deliciousness of Southern food. Today's contributor, Emile Dayan, writes a weekly SFA blog...
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Why women and kids should farm
Editor's note: The Southern Foodways Alliance delves deep in the history, tradition, heroes and plain old deliciousness of Southern food. Today's contributor, Emile Dayan, writes a weekly SFA blog...
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Do you put your ethics where your mouth is?
The concepts of eating ethically and watching where our food comes from have become hot topics in the food world. CNN’s forthcoming Freedom Project documentary examines the cocoa industry and the work...
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Texas man funds lunch for school kids
Last week, dozens of children at a Utah elementary school had their lunch trays snatched away from them before they could take a bite. Workers at Uintah Elementary School removed the already-served...
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Colicchio: 'My goal is to get rid of hunger'
Hunger had at one point been nearly eliminated in the United States. So how did it become such a massive and pressing issue once again? Chef and activist Tom Colicchio cites, among other things, a...
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The bill that will hurt hungry Americans
Editor's note: John Stoehr is managing editor of the Washington Spectator, an independent political periodical published monthly by The Public Concern Foundation. House Republicans pushed through a...
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What's the real cost of chocolate?
Chocolate is the "food of the gods,” a sweet treat for many across the world, and a booming industry worth an estimated $110 billion a year. But as we unwrap a favorite bar or tuck into a truffle, how...
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Syria: 'I’ve never seen levels of deprivation such as this.'
A World Food Programme aid director on the ground in Syria described to CNN’s Christiane Amanpour on Tuesday the desperate situation of civilians in war-ravaged Homs – something he said he had “never...
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Child cocoa labor: 'everybody's problem but nobody's responsibility'
"So tell me," an old school friend asked, "if the demand for chocolate is so high, why are cocoa farmers so poor?" We were sitting in the local pub, just days after I returned from a trip to the Ivory...
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Military food stamp use on the rise
More soldiers used food stamps to buy milk, cheese, meat and bread at military grocers last year. Food stamp redemption at military grocers has been rising steadily since the beginning of the recession...
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How ethical is your favorite food company?
Love that chocolate Haagen-Dazs ice-cream? But what about the way its makers treat their farmers? How about KitKat and the way its production impacts the environment? In a campaign to push big...
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