The gospel of salad with Simone McIsaac of Rootdown Organics

In late September, Robin O’Neill dropped me a note. We’ve collaborated in a host of wonderful ways over the years – I admire her work so much – and she’d been shooting some images in my neck of the woods, at Rootdown Organics. Simone McIsaac had said, “not all salad greens are the same”, and…

The Dirt on Food

“Fuck calories,” says Krista Scott-Dixon (@stumptuous). “Fuck vitamins. Fuck ‘willpower’. Put real cream in your coffee. And have an avocado too. Your relationship with food and eating is your relationship with life.” Her book, Fuck Calories and Other Dietary Heresies rethinks nutritionism manifesto-style – it’s a 41 page debunking of dieting BS, distilled down to…