Semester D

The recent speakers that we have encountered have been really thought provoking to me.  The one probably on everyone’s mind is Wayne, who is very idealistic about food policy.  I think that he serves as an interesting reference point for me to start to realize some of the inequalities that exist in our current food [...]

I love food. As a result, I subscribe to way too many (or not enough?) blogs and other foodie sites. When Jess Daniel and her Detroit pop-up restaurant Neighborhood Noodle were featured on a favorite blog, I had to know more and thus subscribed to “Noodle News.” Neighborhood Noodle serves asian-inspired noodles one Monday night a [...]

One of my favorite place to be in Detroit would be underneath the awning of the taco truck named El Taquito’s on West Vernor and Military in Southwest Detroit as I finally get to place my order after a really long and cold wait. El Taquito’s makes these great burritos and of course, tacos as [...]

Before moving to Detroit, I (like many others) heard over and over again that Detroit is devoid of grocery stores. I heard it from people that had never been to the city as well as from professors that study agriculture and the food system. This worried me, because as a vegan I have been living [...]