I was proud to be a part of Whole Living's beautifully-produced Food Visionaries package, in their penultimate issue.
THE VISIONARIES
They're growing kale in abandoned lots, feeding hungry schoolkids, looking out for our laborers, and teaching us why cooking matters. In short, they're changing our food world for the better. We toast them all.
See Whole Living's web site, for the first 8, including Mayor Bloomberg, Jeff Bridges, Bill Shore, Abeni Massi, Nell Newman, and the founders of FoodCorps.
But here's my contribution:
THE BIG BUSINESS WOMAN
As vice president of strategy, responsible for the sustainability programs for Bon Appetit Management Company, Maisie Greenawalt could just do her job and go home at night, but she cares too deeply—about everything from troll-caught tuna to migrant tomato workers—to rest easy. Not only has Greenawalt ensured that all 500 of the company's cafés (from the one at Amazon headquarters, in Seattle, to the one at Oberlin College, in Ohio) serve only rBGH-free dairy products and beef raised without antibiotics, source at least 20 percent of all ingredients from within 150 miles, and adhere to the Monterey Bay Aquarium's strict Seafood Watch guidelines, but she's helped establish a code of conduct for produce suppliers and contributed to a report that will serve as a road map for creating farmworker labor standors. We're in awe, and slightly exhausted, just thinking about it.
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