by Jennifer Kobrin
June 29, 2011
For me, the connection between language, food and sustainability is obvious. In 2006, I spent a year living on a farm in rural Costa Rica. After numerous stints trying to learn Spanish, this is where it stuck. I learned the word for the sweet pancakes we used to eat with peanut butter (arepas), the herb my adoptive mother Miriam used to tear off a bush outside her window and throw into the cooking pot in one quick motion (culantro), and the fruits we plucked from trees, bushes, vines and the roof (guanabana, mandarinos, naranjas, mangos, pejivalle, papaya, piña, platanos, bananos) .
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by Jennifer Kobrin
June 16, 2011
It’s mid June. Many people think of this time as when schools and districts are gearing down, packing up classrooms, and preparing for vacation. But it can be one of the busiest times of year, especially for directors and coordinators of summer programs, who are frantically pulling together field trips, activities that must be the right mix of fun (so the kids come) and academically enriching (so parents and teachers are happy), nutritious daily meals, and everything from salsa lessons to horticulture classes with a huge range of outside partners.
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