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52 posts categorized "2014 Offering of Letters"
Act Now: Indecision Could Take Food Aid from 2 Million
It seems like it should be an easy decision, but Sen. Jay Rockefeller (D-W. Va.), is undecided on whether to increase cargo preference under a provision, tucked into a Coast Guard bill, that would increase profits to foreign-owned shipping companies, or ensure 2 million hungry people receive food they need to survive.
Faithful advocates across the country need to speak up now.
Rockefeller is the chair of the Commerce, Science and Transportation Committee, which is writing its version of the Coast Guard Reauthorization bill. The House has already passed its version of the legislation, but it included a harmful provision that would increase, from 50 to 75 percent, the amount of food aid shipped from the United States on U.S.-flagged ships. As a result, the cost of shipping food aid would increase by at least $75 million, and, as a result, 2 million fewer hungry people would be reached.
In an interview published in Politico today, Sen. Rockefeller said, "I'm just flat-out undecided." His concerns, Politico reported, center on issues of military readiness and claims that the shipping industry needs the business. Experts in the field of agricultural cargo preference and food security have publically stated that there is no evidence to back up claims from the shipping industry that jobs or military readiness would be affected.
What evidence does show is that increasing cargo preference would limit already-scarce resources used to combat global food insecurity, especially during periods of crises. Harming a program that spreads American goodwill globally and saves millions of lives just to line the pockets of a few largely foreign-owned shipping companies makes no sense. Ryan Quinn, Bread for the World's senior policy analyst, has said it is a boondoggle - that it is not only a waste of time and money, but goes against our nation's values.
"We have fought so hard for reforms that will bring lifesaving aid to millions, all the while saving taxpayer dollars," Quinn said today. "Why should those dollars instead go to subsidize shipping companies? It makes no sense to me. And the argument that increasing cargo-preference restrictions would support 'military readiness' is not supported by the facts."
In a letter to Congress last year, the U.S. Department of Defense asserted that the subsidized vessels in question are not useful to the military. In fact, many of these ships are old, inefficient, and ill-suited to carry thousands of tons of food aid thousands of miles around the world.
Quinn said that he was pleased with the bipartisan support he has seen around food aid. Just this week, Sens. Corker and Coons introduced the Food for Peace Reform Act (S. 2421), which would provide up to 9 million more people with lifesaving aid at no additional cost by using taxpayer dollars more efficiently. The legislation would accomplish many of the requests included in the Bread for the World's 2014 Offering of Letters, Reforming U.S. Food Aid. Bread members visiting Washington, D.C., next week will be asking their senators to co-sponsor the bill as part of our annual Lobby Day.
"Increasing cargo preference could undo all that we have gained, and we must hold our leaders accountable," said Quinn.
Call your senator today at 800-826-3688 and tell him or her to oppose any increase in transportation costs for food aid. Share the picture above on your Twitter or Facebook page, and visit bread.org/foodaid to sign our petition. Millions of lives should not be sacrificed to subsidize shipping companies!
Read more about S. 2421, the authorization bill to reform U.S. food aid released this week.
Posted by Rstephenson on June 06, 2014 in 2014 Offering of Letters, Food Aid / Comments (0) / TrackBack (0)
Ask a Pastor: Why Should We Talk to Congress About U.S. Food Aid?
Rev. Dave Buerstetta blesses an offering of letters at the Woodridge United Methodist church outside of Chicago, Ill. Assisting him are Jason Shubert (l) and Tim Waynick. (Patti Cash)
Rev. Dave Buerstetta of Woodridge United Methodist Church in Chicago, Ill., recently added his name to a letter asking his senator to protect food aid. We asked him why he thought it was important for the faith community to be part of the conversation on food aid with Congress. Here is what he said:
Loving God with our whole selves and loving our neighbors as ourselves requires seeking justice. Seeking justice requires trying to change the cultural systems that make, and keep, people poor or hungry or oppressed. So seeking justice – transforming systems to better emulate the Reign of God on earth, for which we pray every single week – requires advocacy.
We have some neighbors who are hungry. We have other neighbors who are members of Congress with the power to keep 2 million more neighbors from becoming hungry. Of course we should talk with members of Congress about this! We cannot let ourselves be scared off from the vital work of justice advocacy simply because doing so means engaging in the political process. That's how systems are changed.
In other words, in addition to being the hands and feet of Jesus in the world, we must also seek to be the voice of Jesus in the world, speaking with and for the poor, the hungry, the oppressed. That is why I added my name to the letter; that is why I hope you will too.
Buerstetta practices what he preaches. The letter to his Sen. Dick Durbin (D-Ill.), asking him to protect food aid for 2 million people is an example of seeking justice and loving our neighbor. As a leader in Congress, Sen. Durbin can influence policy that affects how much food the United States can deliver to people in need overseas — and as a constituent, Buerstetta can influence Sen.Durbin.
Legislation recently passed by the House of Representatives would decrease the amount of assistance the U.S. can give while increasing profits for shipping companies. The Senate is now writing its version of the bill, and we are asking senators that any legislation to increase transportation costs for shipping food aid be stripped from the bill. Several senators have been targeted as having particular influence at this time. We are asking faith leaders from Alaska, Illinois, Indiana, Minnesota, Missouri, Montana, Nevada, Washington, Wisconsin, and West Virginia to urge their senators to protect U.S. food aid. The letters will be delivered in person on Tuesday, June 10.
You can read more about Rev. Buerstetta's work in the Nov. 2012 edition of Bread for the World's newsletter.
Posted by Rstephenson on June 06, 2014 in 2014 Offering of Letters, Food Aid / Comments (0) / TrackBack (0)
Rick Steves Op-ed to Protect U.S. Food Aid
Travel show host Rick Steves in Ireland. (Photo courtesy of Rick Steves)
Rick Steves, television and radio personality, travel expert, and longtime Bread for the World member, wrote an opinion piece on U.S. food aid that was published in The Seattle Times yesterday. In his guest contribution, titled "Protect U.S. food aid from the shipping industry," Steves, a resident of Washington state, asks Sen. Maria Cantwell (D-Wash.) to protect food aid. He also calls on Washington voters to support her efforts to do so.
Last month, the House of Representatives passed a bill that included a provision that would increase the cost of shipping food aid by at least $75 million. This increase would mean 2 million fewer hungry people would benefit from lifesaving food-aid programs. The bill is now being considered by the Senate Commerce Committee, of which Cantwell is a member. Bread for the World is asking the committee members to strip any provisions that would increase transportation costs for food aid.
A frequent traveler, Steves has a perspective on global hunger that motivates him to advocate that U.S. food aid be made more efficient. In his guest post, he writes:
I care about this issue in part because of my work as a travel writer. Having spent a third of my adult life overseas, it's clear to me: While we are a compassionate society, we can be oblivious to the consequences that some of our choices have on struggling people. Sure, we have our economic challenges. But 90 percent of humanity would love to have our crisis. Half of humanity is struggling to survive on $2 a day. When you travel, you understand that's a real crisis.
I believe that, even if motivated only by greed and national security interests, if U.S. citizens know what's good for ourselves and our country, we don't want to be extremely wealthy in a world with lots of hunger. U.S. food aid, which saves millions of lives each year, is vital in combating this challenge. And making every food-aid dollar count is a responsible use of taxpayer money, a moral imperative and in America's interest.
Read the piece in its entirety on The Seattle Times website.
Bread for the World is asking Washington state faith leaders to sign a letter to Sen. Cantwell asking her to protect U.S. food aid. The letter, addressed to Cantwell and other members of the Senate Commerce Committee, will be delivered June 10 during Bread for the World's Lobby Day.
Learn more about Bread for the World's 2014 Offering of Letters: Reforming U.S. Food Aid on the Offering of Letters website.
Posted by Rstephenson on June 04, 2014 in 2014 Offering of Letters, Food Aid / Comments (0) / TrackBack (0)
Exposing Special Interest that Would Take Food From the Hungry
Wealthy shipping companies, mostly foreign-owned, have lobbied for more profit for themselves at the expense of 2 million hungry people, and the House of Representatives has sanctioned it. It's a boondoggle — it's not only a waste of time and money, it goes against our nation's values.
This subsidy to the world's largest shipping conglomerates was quietly included as a provision in the Coast Guard Reauthorization Bill for fiscal year 2015, which passed by voice vote in the House. The legislation would increase, from 50 to 75 percent, the amount of food aid that must be shipped on U.S.-flagged vessels. As a result, the cost of shipping food aid would increase by at least $75 million, and 2 million fewer hungry people would be reached.
This provision has nothing to do with the U.S. Coast Guard and is a blatant attempt by special interests to line their own pockets while more people overseas go hungry.
Cornell University's Christopher Barrett and Bucknell University's Erin Lentz expose the level of depravity the shipping lobby has reached in "Highway robbery on the high seas," a recent article in The Hill. In addition to limiting food aid, they state that the legislation would also limit competition and restrict public comment. "These anti-competitive restrictions, which enable much more expensive shipping rates than competitor vessels would charge, generate windfall profits to a few, mainly foreign companies who operate U.S.-flagged vessels through domestic subsidiaries," they write.
I have been meeting with members of the Senate Commerce Committee, who are writing their version of the bill. Our goal is to strip the provision from the Senate bill in committee. A common argument for increasing cargo preference relies on the idea that not doing so will result in U.S. job losses. Barrett and Lentz point out that earlier reforms, which reduced cargo preference, did not result in any lost jobs. In addition, they write, "this type of indirect subsidy is so inefficient that any job created comes at a taxpayer cost of about $100,000."
In 2010, Barrett and Lentz were part of a research team that conducted a rigorous peer-reviewed analysis on agricultural cargo preference policy (ACP). Their conclusion was that ACP is not cost effective or efficient, does not increase military readiness, and does not substantially affect the labor market. ACP does, however, squander scare food-aid resources intended to help alleviate hunger.
Opposition to the ACP provision is clearly bipartisan. Organizations as diverse as The Heritage Foundation and The Center for American Progress agree that that increasing cargo preference is a step backward.
I am asking you to sign a petition, which I intend to deliver to Capitol Hill next week. Regional organizers are asking for faith leaders to add their names to sign-on letters targeting some key members on the committee, which they will deliver in person on June 10.
Lives are at stake. We have seen the difference flexibility made after Typhoon Haiyan devastated the Philippines and U.S. food aid helped save lives. An estimated 5 million people in South Sudan need humanitarian assistance urgently — after fleeing violence, mothers now fear famine will claim their children. Right now we must not undo the progress made on food-aid reform, nor turn our backs to those in need when we have the means to help.
Ryan Quinn is a senior policy analyst in the government relations department at Bread for the World.
Photo: Lutheran Development Service distributes food to people affected by drought in Swaziland in 2004. (Stephen H. Padre/Bread for the World)
Posted by Rstephenson on June 03, 2014 in 2014 Offering of Letters, Food Aid / Comments (0) / TrackBack (0)
Building Bipartisan Momentum for Food Aid
Before receiving assistance from the Food for Peace program, Davane Mesa Paulo was struggling with just a hectare of land and a few crops that he grew for food. "Hunger ran away from my house," he said recently. "So people started coming to ask how." (Bita Rodriguez/USAID)
Food-aid reform came out as a winner in yesterday's Senate Appropriation Committee agriculture bill markup. The 2015 spending bill, which sets funding amounts for the U.S. programs that deliver emergency and humanitarian food assistance, will include $35 million for food-aid reform efforts. The funds would help food aid reach an estimated 200,000 more people in need.
However, the spending bill still has a long way to go before the Oct. 1 deadline – the start of the fiscal year. Once the final bill passes out of the Appropriations Committee, it will then go to the floor for a vote from the full Senate. Finally, if there is normal process, it will be conferenced with the House version of the bill.
Bread for the World and its members are urging Congress to update food-aid policy to better meet the needs of hungry people facing natural disasters, food insecurity and malnutrition, famine, civil strife, and other extraordinary circumstances. Thousands of letters from Christians have already arrived in offices on Capitol Hill, building the momentum for bipartisan efforts to reform food aid— as we saw in yesterday's vote.
The food-aid amendment was introduced thanks to the efforts of Sens. Mike Johanns (R-Neb.) and Patrick Leahy (D-Vt.). Before the committee vote, Sen. Johanns said, "Literally, people live or die by the decision we make here." The vote of 16 ayes to 14 nays was strongly bipartisan. Last minute efforts on the part of grassroots anti-hunger advocates, who made a lot of noise in support of the bill, helped push the amendment forward.
The funds will help replace the practice of monetization — in which aid organizations resell food-aid products in local markets to support development work, but can undercut local farmers in the process. The more flexibility administrators have in implementing Food For Peace, the more efficient the development programs can become, allowing thousands of additional people to better feed themselves and escape hunger. Flexibility in design and implementation also helps us build resilience against future emergencies.
"This is significant and shows that there is a strong desire for reform that crosses party lines," says Ryan Quinn, senior policy analyst at Bread for the World. "We can build on this," he said, "but keep in mind that we are also facing cuts if the Senate Commerce Committee includes a cargo-preference provision in a bill they are starting to write."
The House recently passed a Coast Guard reauthorization bill that included a provision to increase transportation costs for food aid. This would limit the amount of food aid the U.S. could provide, and program costs would come out of Food for Peace funds. We are currently reaching out to faith leaders in committee member's states and organizing sign-on letters to stop the provision in a Senate bill.
"This was a real win for hungry people and sets us on the right path," said Quinn. "We should feel good and know our voices are making a difference. But, he cautions, "in a world where 842 million people go to bed hungry every day, and crises situations like Syria and South Sudan are getting worse, we have to keep this momentum going."
Posted by Rstephenson on May 23, 2014 in 2014 Offering of Letters, Food Aid, International Food Aid / Comments (0) / TrackBack (0)
U.S. Food Aid in the News
By now you have likely heard that a provision that would limit the amount of U.S. food aid available to help hungry people was added to a Coast Guard reauthorization bill passed by the House. This decision, which could take food away from more than 2 million vulnerable people, was made without accountability or transparency, but media attention is helping to bring the provision to light. Members of the public and members of Congress are becoming aware of the harmful provision, which primarily benefits foreign-owned shipping companies.
Bread for the World members advocated for and won reforms in the recent farm bill that would make food aid more flexible and able to help more people at no additional cost—the provision in the House bill threatens to undo some of that progress. The Senate commerce committee will consider the bill next, and is expected to begin writing its own version in the next few weeks.
In a recent Huffington Post piece, Bread for the World President David Beckmann writes:
"Proverbs 31:8-9 tells us to "speak out for those who cannot speak, for the rights of all the destitute. Speak out, judge righteously, defend the rights of the poor and needy." Special-interest favors to the shipping industry should not create additional hardship for hungry and poor people globally. This provision does nothing to protect the poor and needy. At best, it is morally imbalanced.
Here is a compilation of a few other recently-published articles on the harmful provision (H.R. 4005), and how it could affect our ability to help hungry people in need:
"US food aid U-turn could put 2m people in jeopardy, warn experts." May 2, 2014, by Carey L. Biron for Inter Press Service, The Guardian. "We're always talking about the budget crisis and using our money more wisely, but here's a provision that would specifically raise the cost of food aid by $75m [£44m] annually. That money would be taken directly out of U.S. food-aid programmes – and millions of vulnerable people would be forced to pay the bill."
"Provision Could Limit U.S. Food Aid." April 24, 2014, by Ron Nixon, New York Times. "An obscure provision tucked inside a Coast Guard spending bill could prevent millions of people in troubled countries around the world from receiving American food aid and cost taxpayers millions of dollars in shipping costs."
"White House Warns Bill Would Crimp Foreign Food Aid." April 24, 2014, by Kristina Peterson, Wall Street Journal. "'As we work swiftly to reach hungry people and save lives, this bill would only increase the cost of shipping emergency food aid, potentially denying relief to more than 2 million persons in need annually,' said Rajiv Shah, administrator of the U.S. Agency for International Development."
Call (800-326-4941) or email your senators today! Urge them to reject any actions that would increase transportation costs for food aid and prevent hungry people around the world from receiving U.S. food assistance.
Photo: The U.S. has long been a global leader in responding to humanitarian emergencies and is the largest provider of lifesaving food aid. Since Food for Peace—the largest food aid program–began in the 1950s, approximately 3 billion people in 150 countries have benefitted from American generosity and compassion. A Haitian woman and her daughter carry their humanitarian aid rations after receiving them at a food distribution center in Congrave after the 2010 earthquake. (U.S. Navy)
Posted by Rstephenson on May 14, 2014 in 2014 Offering of Letters, Food Aid / Comments (0) / TrackBack (0)
Faith Leaders Tell Missouri Senators to Protect Food Aid in Op-ed
Lutheran Development Service distributes cooking oil to people affected by a 2004 drought in Swaziland. Many U.S. food-aid items are distributed by private relief and development organizations supported by U.S. churches. (Stephen Padre)
Local newspapers can be a powerful and public way to message your members of Congress as well as bring attention to hunger issues.
Faith leaders in Missouri published an op-ed last week in the St. Louis Post-Dispatch opposing a harmful change to U.S. food aid. In the editorial, titled "A provision in Congress that hurts taxpayers and the hungry," Rev. Roger R. Gustafson, Dr. Jim Hill, and Meg Olson call on Missouri senators to reject a provision slipped in to the Coast Guard and Maritime Transportation Act of 2014 that would increase cargo preference.
The bill, which recently passed the House, increases the percentage of U.S. food aid required to be shipped on private U.S. shipping vessels. In effect, this takes away an additional $75 million per year from much-needed U.S. international food-aid programs. Both senators for Missouri, Roy Blunt (R-Mo.) and Claire McCaskill (D-Mo.), sit on the commerce committee, which will soon consider this issue.
"As we read in the Book of Proverbs, 'A false balance is an abomination to the Lord, but an accurate weight is his delight.' A present-day "false balance" that harms taxpayers and hungry people was tucked into a bill heading to the U.S. Senate, and it must be removed," the faith leaders wrote in the op-ed.
"The false balance in question is an obscure, one-sentence provision in an otherwise unrelated bill passed recently by the U.S. House of Representatives. This provision would tilt the balance in the wrong direction — against fiscal responsibility and against millions of hungry people around the world. As faith leaders called to be stewards of our resources and to serve our neighbors both here and around the world — and especially 'the least of these' — we find this unacceptable, and we call on our U.S. Sens. Roy Blunt and Claire McCaskill to correct the balance and remove this unjust provision."
Read the editorial in its entirety on the St. Louis Post-Dispatch website.
If your member of Congress also sits on the commerce committee, now is the time to speak up. The committee will soon begin drafting their own version of the bill and without an outcry from faithful advocates, the cargo-preference stipulation could take food from nearly 2 million hungry people. This provision, as the authors write, is an unjust balance. Both taxpayers and the hungry deserve better.
Every member of Congress relies on local media to gauge public opinion on legislation and determine their constituents' priorities. Learn more about how to influence the media on Bread's website and call your regional organizer if you would like to help organize an editorial in your own state.
Posted by Rstephenson on May 12, 2014 in 2014 Offering of Letters, Advocacy, Food Aid / Comments (0) / TrackBack (0)
Facing Goliath: Faithful Advocacy and Food Aid Reform
Because of policy changes allowing flexibility in how we deliver food aid, USAID was able to commit $10 million dollars to be used to purchase food in the Philippines in the aftermath of Typhoon Haiyan. (USAID photo)
I have a confession to make: I occasionally have moments of despair as an anti-hunger advocate. Then I go through a few stages that remind me faith has the power to move mountains – or topple giants as the case may be.
Despair weighed me down when I learned a harmful bill, which cuts international food aid to starving people in deference to shipping companies hungry for profit, passed the House. Three private, foreign-owned shipping companies would largely reap the benefits of a cargo preference provision quietly added to the Coast Guard and Maritime Transportation Act of 2014 (HR 4005). Their profit would come at the expense of U.S. food=aid programs. The bill now sits in the Senate Commerce Committee for consideration.
I'm now hopeful that we can fight this harmful provision, but it took me a little while to get here. If you sometimes feel hopeless in your work to end hunger, don't worry—it's normal and necessary. Sometimes we must feel sadness and despair—they are the very things that move us to act. Usually, I experience this in four stages:
I feel sad and tired.
I recall a scene broadcast on the news after Typhoon Haiyan devastates the Philippines: A distraught teenager wails and beats on the one remaining wall of what was once his family's home– his lifeless mother lies in the rubble nearby and his father looks at the camera and pleads for help. I cry. The next scene shows international compassion for humanity as helicopters drop food and water to survivors.
Flexibility on where food can be purchased is a major factor in getting life-saving aid to the Philippines quickly. Reforms in the 2014 farm bill could help up to 800,000 additional people at no additional cost. It is good to see the results of advocacy as lives are saved.
But some want to turn back the clock. Food shipped under cargo-preference law from the United States takes an average of 14 weeks longer to reach people in a crisis. Increasing cargo preference, as stipulated in the Coast Guard bill, would deny an estimated 2 million hungry people access to food aid and reverse improvements made in the farm bill. I wonder how lawmakers could make such a choice: a few shipping companies over 2 million lives.
I feel outraged.
Powerful maritime lobbyist versus a group of Christian advocates seems like a losing battle. However, time and time again, our collective Christian voice wins victories by using gifts of citizenship. The Bible is full of inspirational stories that remind me that faith and "right" is more powerful than money and might. I turn to scripture.
I feel hopeful.
I read 1 Samuel 17 — the story of David and Goliath. The odds of a little guy defeating a giant warrior seem laughable. The soldier's tools of battle are too heavy, so he is left with a sling and some stones. But David does not go into battle alone and he knows this is the Lord's fight — David answers a call to act. With a single stone, David topples a giant.
I feel called and ready to act.
There are always giants on Capitol Hill, whether special-interest lobbyists, or lawmakers themselves. Like David picking up the rock as he faces impossible odds against Goliath, anti-hunger advocates can pick up phones, send emails, visit their members of Congress and send a powerful message to the Senate: reject any actions that would increase transportation costs for food aid and prevent hungry people around the world from receiving U.S. food assistance.
We make a difference and we carry with us a sacred call to end hunger. When we live that call out together, giants topple.
Robin Stephenson is Bread for the World's national lead for social media and regional organizer, western hub.
Posted by Rstephenson on May 09, 2014 in 2014 Offering of Letters, Advocacy, Faith, Food Aid / Comments (0) / TrackBack (0)
Advocacy in Action: 'Glocal' Thinking
Bill Clark of Philabundance, a Philadelphia-area food bank, makes the case to participants of a workshop that the government has long had the ability to address hunger as a social crisis. (Stephen Padre)
[This story originally appeared in the May edition of Bread for the World's newsletter.]
"We [as a nation] have done very little to end hunger," declared Bill Clark, executive director of Philabundance, a food bank serving the Philadelphia area. "The problem next week is the same problem we were facing last week. We really haven't done anything, and we haven't been engaged in any way to actually end hunger. But I believe we can do that, and some of these large movements that we've seen historically give me faith that we can."
Clark was one of three local anti-hunger leaders and activists who addressed 62 hunger advocates in Southeastern Pennsylvania March 29 at Villanova University. The advocates gathered for a day of information, inspiration, and being equipped for activism at a workshop organized by Bread for the World.
Clark spoke to participants, who included dozens of students from area colleges and seminaries, about his work assisting the nearly 1 million people in the Delaware Valley who face hunger every day. He provided a national context for his work in the area by explaining that the federal government and social movements have each played key roles in ending other societal ills such as slavery and child labor.
He and the other two speakers, who presented in the short, information-intensive style of the popular TED Talks, were at the workshop as examples of local practitioners, people who are fighting hunger in local communities day-byday. Clark spoke about the success of Philabundance's new nonprofit grocery store, Fare and Square, in Chester, Pa., a former food desert.
A fourth speaker at the workshop, Bread's director of government relations, Eric Mitchell, provided a national perspective on ending hunger in his talk, titled "Why Do Elections Matter?"
"I like to call elections marching orders," said Mitchell. "It's constituents telling their member of Congress, 'When you go to D.C., you better vote on this issue and that issue.'" He explained to advocates that all elections, even midterm elections, like the ones approaching in 2014, can and do have long-lasting effects because of who gets elected to Congress and how they vote.
Following these speakers, which provided different aspects of fighting hunger, advocates received training on carrying out a letter-writing event in their church or on their campus as part of Bread's Offering of Letters campaign. Bread offers workshops similar to the one at Villanova for Bread's biggest church- and campus-based legislative campaign every year to provide background on the campaign's topic and to hone the advocacy skills of advocates.
Bread's 2014 Offering of Letters focuses on reforming the U.S. government's programs that provide food aid overseas, which provided yet another perspective, an international one, to the workshop's participants.
In small-group discussions, which occurred between speakers throughout the day, advocates wrestled with the truth that hunger is not well-known in communities where it exists. They agreed that it is crucial to emphasize reality-based, compelling stories told by those directly experiencing hunger and poverty. One participant noted, "We need to bridge the gap between people who have stories about hunger and those who have the mental space to campaign."
To see if there is a workshop scheduled near you (or to request one), contact your Bread regional organizer, who can also assist you with organizing an Offering of Letters.
Posted by Bread on May 08, 2014 in 2014 Offering of Letters, Advocacy / Comments (0) / TrackBack (0)
Roger Thurow and the Global Cost of Malnutrition
A student who benefits from a USAID funded feeding program in Guatemala. (Joseph Molieri/Bread for the World)
While the suffering of children who do not receive adequate nutrition during the first 1000 days of their lives cannot be overstated, malnutrition is a problem that can also impact a nation's economic productivity and even our global economy. One out of four children under the age of five is stunted – that's a quarter of our global population. The good news is we have solutions that work, but the question remains: will we implement policies and fund programs that we know can make a difference?
This is the focus of a recent article in The Atlantic by Roger Thurow, author of the new book The Last Hunger Season: A Year in an African Farm Community on the Brink of Change, and senior fellow for global agriculture and food policy at The Chicago Council on Global Affairs.
In a moving excerpt from the article 1,000 Days: The Period That Decides the Health and Wealth of the World, Thurow writes:
"For me, the human face of these numbers is a boy I first met during the Ethiopian famine of 2003, when international food aid was keeping 14 million people alive. Hagirso was five years old and weighed just 27 pounds when his father, Tesfaye Ketema, carried him into an emergency feeding tent. Tesfaye explained that his son, who was sickly and weak and stunted, had been malnourished since birth and was the most vulnerable in the family when the famine hit. Hagirso miraculously survived, but his early malnourishment and the subsequent famine exacted a tremendous toll. When I visited him 10 years later, in April 2013, Hagirso was 15 and barely four feet tall. Tesfaye said his son was often sick and wasn't strong enough to do much work on the small family farm. Hagirso was in school, but only in the first grade. The day I visited, he and his much-younger classmates were studying the alphabet and pronouncing vowel-consonant combinations: ba, be, bi, bo, bu. There, in that classroom, was confirmation of all the statistics on the cost of malnutrition and stunting: lost education, lost work, lost wages, lost opportunity."
Calculate the cost of malnutrition globally and the bill is estimated to run about $1.4 – 2.1 trillion a year. Targeting nutrition and nutrition education to mothers and infants in the first 1000 days is a cost-effective solution with proven results.
U.S. food aid — the focus of Bread for the World's 2014 Offering of Letters — is one vehicle that allows the United States to play its part in decreasing global malnutrition. With smart policy changes that address a modern understanding of the long-term effects of hunger, we can provide food that is more nutritious, especially to women and children in the critical 1,000-day window between pregnancy and a child's second birthday.
The future is at stake – malnutrition strips opportunity from the Hagirsos of the world. What he might have been able to contribute to his family, his village, his country, and the world has been compromised because of hunger. We cannot change what happened to Hagirso, but we can make a difference for the millions of other children around the world .
After learning more about what's at stake, take action by writing to your members of Congress and urging them to pass much-needed reform to our food-aid programs. Recent food-aid improvements are also in danger of being reversed. Learn more about how you can take urgent action here.
Posted by Rstephenson on May 05, 2014 in 1,000 Days, 2014 Offering of Letters, Food Aid / Comments (0) / TrackBack (0)
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I'm a corporate finance guy, by profession, and one of my favorite words is fungible. It's a fairly specialized word, and many of you may not know it, so I'll explain what it means. If an item is fungible, that means that individual units of that item have mutual sameness, in terms of value, and are easily substituted. (Commodities tend to be fungible, as mutual sameness is a lot of what makes something a commodity rather than a product.) Currency is fungible. One dollar bill has the exact same value as another dollar bill, even if the second one has a phone number written on it lipstick. A bushel of corn is also fungible, as is a barrel of light sweet crude oil. Here is the Wikipedia article, if you're interested.
Employees tend not to be fungible. Do y'all know of Bill Barnwell of Football Outsiders? He's kind of a B-minus football thinker who thinks he's an A-plus. Like all the guys at Football Outsiders, and others of their ilk, they tend to over-value statistics, especially the proprietary ones that they create. Anyway, this fellow Barnwell had a silly tweet the other night.
Note: Each Wednesday, we take a look at a critical coaching decision from the prior week's game that had an impact on the final score—from a statistical point.
Josh McDaniels is known for having a playbook a mile high, each week throwing multiple formations, personnel packages, and looks at the defense.
Against the Titans, he thinned the playbook out real fast. Unable to run for much (all) of the game, the Broncos were forced into an aerial attack.
McDaniels himself is quoted as saying that at about the midway point of the 4th quarter, he essentially abandoned the running attack:
"We're not going to go into any game and try to be one dimensional. I think, though, at some point in a game, and for today it was 9:27 to go in the fourth quarter, we were, 'That's it. That's enough.'"
Certainly, the Broncos never intended to throw the ball as many times as they did last Sunday, but I do believe that the Broncos were heavily skewed towards the pass from the kickoff. In fact, I think it was the focus of their game plan. And that choice to attack the Titans, who came into the league as a highly-ranked passing defense—is our huge decision of the week.
Continue reading "Huge Decision of the Week: Broncos-Titans, Week 4"
Good Morning, Broncos fans! If I may, I'd like to take a moment to offer something of a reality check on the Kyle-Orton-Sucks-McDaniels-is-an-Idiot-Oh-Wait-Orton's-Good-Vote-for-Kyle-for-MVP Train. Indeed, Kyle is off to a very good start this year, his grasp of the McDaniels offense is certainly better than it was last year, and he's spreading the ball around quite well. He's racking up the yardage and breaking records. But he's got a long way to go. Despite his 175 attempts (an almost unprecedented crazy number), Orton has only 6 touchdown passes (tied for 8th best) with a TD rate of 3.4% (tied for 20th with Joe Flacco). That TD percentage will need to go up - and in a big way - before Kyle Orton is an elite QB, even for a season.
Now, this is something of a rant-laden Lard today. Clearly this is not an everyday thing, but as you know, when things get my goat, I tend to rant. Just ask the guys I work with what happens when they start talking about certain baseball players being "clutch" or "winners"...but I digress. Let's get to those sand-in-my-shorts links!
Happy Monday Night, or Tuesday morning, or whenever you it is that you read this. A funny sidebar just occurred to me, as I embark upon this throwaway paragraph. I always say Happy Monday, or whatever, which long-time readers will recognize going back to my ST&NO days on Mile High Report. It was recently pointed out to me at work that my use of that greeting convention is rubbing off, and that other people are starting emails that way too. I can get colleagues to write and speak like me without trying, but I have a harder time getting them to do what I ask in the actual emails. You know, like sell new business, and get new projects underway. It's funny how the power of suggestion works.
Never mind the cheap shots, the wasting of their own efforts and how well the Broncos handled them. Forget the Titans. What do you say about Kyle Orton?
You'd probably have to start with the fact that very little fazes him. Not the 6 sacks that the Titans laid on him. Not the late hit below the waist. Not the outright hatred that a lot of misguided fans laid on him in the past year. Probably not even the number of late arrivals that are looking for a bandwagon to jump on. Mostly, Kyle Orton doesn't care. He just does his job, drives his Prius and works with conservation groups. This is NOT normal star QB behavior. But then again, Orton has never been the big star QB.
There'll be time enough for countin', when the dealin's done. —Vince Lombardi
Even though we've already reached the quarter point of the football season, it's important to remember one thing:
We've still got three quarters to go.
That means, like in any game, there's still time to make a run. The same is true for your division opponents (sans Oakland).
So do yourself a favor and don't get too married to the following stats after only four weeks. Yes, the numbers will show exactly what you've been thinking—that the Broncos can't run, but they sure can pass. But a lot of this can change in just a few weeks.
This is going to be a weekly gig - a celebration of two players, one from each line, who made a positive difference, win or lose. Some weeks it's not easy - the guys who do the best are in the middle of piles and you can't read their jerseys. But this week, that wasn't hard.
Offense: The award for this week goes to the rookie center, JD Walton. Walton was fighting for his life on much of the day, but watching him racing Ryan Clady down the field, the second level quickly turning to the third, looking for more people to hit gave you an idea of how hard he was working throughout the game. Like most rookies, he is learning by doing. He's going to get mauled at times, but he's holding his own better and better. Congratulations to him.
Continue reading "He's Ain't Heavy, He's My Bronco - Week 4"
Good Morning, Broncos fans! Some potentially good news coming, as the Broncos have reportedly restarted talks with Champ Bailey's agent on a four-year extension. Plus, the Broncos expect Knowshon Moreno and Andre' Goodman to return for the game at Baltimore. But cross your fingers; don't hold your breath.
Over the past offseason, Josh McDaniels admitted to several coaching mistakes he made in his first season.
One of his biggest regrets? Not utilizing Eddie Royal's unique skills.
Broncos fans were told to expect something different in 2010. McDaniels committed Royal to the slot-receiver spot, which would allow him more immediate separation off the line of scrimmage. This additional space would allow Royal to utilize his superior quickness and get into his routes before a defender had time to jam him.
Royal, for his part, committed himself to getting stronger in the offseason.
Yesterday, against the Titans, we were able to see how it all came together.
It's happened to all of us. It looks like your team is playing like processed dung. You pop into the kitchen for a brewski and find the remains of last night's chicken sitting next to it. The BBQ sauce you made for the last set of ribs still looks kind of good, smells fine, and pretty soon, you're well into food prep. You walk back to the living room and suddenly the Hottentot Hasbeens have gained 10 points on the scoreboard. Ah, well, they're still down 10 more. You'll catch the highlights on whatever sports show is in your area.
The game drags on - looks like both teams fought out their energy in the first half, but the Hasbeens are at least trying. Suddenly, it looks like the Davenport Dilberts have been caught in press when their safeties are in Cover 2 - you just don't do that. Your QB audibles, drops into the shotgun, drops back, loads up - and through the window comes a piercing scream from the area of the swing set. This isn't your first game - it's not your first kid, either, that that was the "I fell and sprained something scream (Note - it's not your first kid-scream, either)". You fly out the back door, with the ball still in the air. Worse still, it turns out that it's probably just a minor sprain, but it's a a full-bore bickering argument between the kids. By the time you straighten that out and clarify that pulling on people's pants when they are hanging from the monkey bars really is unacceptable behavior, regardless of what a visiting male child he thinks that his uncle told him (make a note to talk to that perverted idiot) and get an ice bag on the knee, you suddenly recall that there's a game on. Or was. Could be?


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December 2010 Cookbook of the Month Nominations (Through Mon., 11/15)
It is almost impossible to believe that it is time to think about cookbooks once again. Personally, I have hardly had the time to read through this month's books. But, the calendar doesn't lie.
It is time for the Chowhound Cookbook of the Month nominations. The Cookbook of The Month is open to anyone who wants to participate. Simply make a nomination, then vote and cook. There are no dues to participate; no secret handshake to learn. Join us!
Please note that nominations are counted and only the top vote getters make it to the voting round. If you want your choice to advance, make sure you participate in the nomination round.
But please type the title of the book you are nominating in ALL CAPITALS, if you want your nomination to be counted. Nominations will be open until 10pm, EST on Monday, NOVEMBER 15.
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re: oakjoan
I had a very good laugh from this one oj, thanks.
I saw a dessert recipe once from Iceland, I think, -- it was Cream of Wheat with berry juice and sugar. Which might be quite nice in Iceland (or Lapland) for a winter night ??
Anyway, haha I too saw this December COTM invitation and thought--how to justify skipping a month? There are 4 books going now -- South-West France, The World, a 3-books-in-one cookie book, and David Dessert's Paris Favorites! So far I have...checked my poppyseeds for freshness, little else.
But skipping a month might dampen enthusiasm for COTM? Or break the momentum?
Maybe a good idea would be to revisit a book this time.
With the holidays so frantic, I would love some easier/familiar recipes.
REVISIT ITALIAN EASY AND ITALIAN TWO EASY AND/OR GOURMET TODAY (which has some quick recipes).
(PS--in past years, when we've revisited books, we've not revisited books from the most recent year, but that's what I feel like nominating, nevertheless.)
Another alternative is to just extend the Nov book into Dec, but that's not my personal preference.
re: The Dairy Queen
I've been revisiting past COTMs *this* month since I'm just not as excited about The World of Food as I've been other books. A Jamie Oliver book might be interesting next...or Around My French Table.
re: The Dairy Queen
I'd gladly revisit Italian Easy/Italian Two Eay or Gourmet Today and maybe combine Gourmet - the yellow book. (I believe it was dubbed Gourmet Yesterday). Italian Easy was great because there were few ingredients and the recipes were easy enough to execute after work and the results were good. Gourmet Today was successful for me because there was such a variety of recipes to choose from depending on my mood. I think I cooked something Japanese, Korean, and Italian that month.
And like Gio, I would welcome cooking from a Jamie Oliver book. I purchased a few based on previous COTM nominations. And I've already been cooking from Around My French Table, but there are many more recipes that I have yet to try.
re: BigSal
I loved Gourmet Today and the 2 River Cafe books. GT has many recipes that could be used either for Holiday cooking or quick-in-a-hurry weeknight meals. If we were to revisit I could very easily endorse them. In fact...
re: BigSal
Why March for JO (just curious), and not Jan or Feb? I, too, would love to do a JO book one of these days, though, am still unclear which is considered his "best".
re: The Dairy Queen
Because of LulusMom request below.
re: BigSal
Oh, I missed that. Got it!
re: BigSal
Thanks Big Sal - I owe you one!
re: The Dairy Queen
I'm ALWAYS suggesting Jamie Oliver and yet we've never had any of his books as CTOM.
I don't think there's a "best"one. My most recent purchase is his Jamie at Home, which combines veg. growing tips with recipes. It has some great recipes in it, but I'd like to stick to his earlier works.
I'd suggest that we do two books (ala Italian Easy, etc...which, btw, were written by Oliver's mentors at the River Cafe.
I really like the idea of THE NAKED CHEF or THE NAKED CHEF TAKES OFF combined with JAMIE'S KITCHEN.
re: oakjoan
OJ, if I were in a different frame of mind right now, I'd def second your JO nominations. But, I can't honestly feel confident I'd cook along if JO were to hit in December. I just feel bad nominating a book I might not be in a position to cook from.
Sometimes takes awhile for a book/author to reach a critical mass of support or hit on the right timing. I am confident JO will hit one of these days! Nigel Slater's name has come up a couple of times in this thread. He's another author I'd love to try. It's funny how books pick up and then lose momentum. For instance, what happened to all of the Ottolenghi support? A redo+plenty seemed imminent for awhile. It's funny how people's moods and priorities shift based on what's going on the season and what's going on in their lives. Plus, a lot of people seem to be smitten by Dorie right now. So funny how this goes.
P.S. OJ, did you see Lulumom's plea to wait until March to cook from JO?
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Also, I think a book will have more success if it isn't in November or December. It's just so busy that it's hard to focus. Wolfert may have easier recipes, but the perception is that it's labor intensive. I haven't even had the chance to flip through the books even though they are both sitting on the table.
My nomination is to RE-VISIT GREEN GOURMET BOOK.
re: The Dairy Queen
Thanks TDQ!
re: The Dairy Queen
Second Lulusmom.
re: oakjoan
Oakjoan, you'd be pleased to know I just bought my first JO book. Not one of the ones you recommended, alas, but Jamie's Food Revolution. Maybe I'll be a Jamie convert soon, too!
re: jen kalb
It is a serious proposal, Jen. If you think participation would be increased by having all of the River Cafe's books included, well, that's fine. In fact today I was contemplating mentioning cookbook author of the month, rather than just one book. Ir's just a thought...
re: jen kalb
I was just about to throw in a vote for the River Cafe books but its so unlilkely that I will cook from one of these books in December that I am going to opt out of proposing and voting.
Just going to continue with Wolfert for the time being and start into the dessert selections, too..
re: The Dairy Queen
I really like the idea of revisiting, and would be very happy with the Italian Easy books and/or Gourmet Today (and yesterday).
Please please please wait until March to do Jamie Oliver! A plea from me ... I'll be out of the country and doubt I'll have a very well equipped kitchen during that time, so plan to take along only the simplest recipes (any suggestions welcome! - no meat please - in fact, I think I'll go ahead and start a thread about it). I'd love to participate in a Jamie Oliver month and would be more than happy to vote for one from March on. Selfishly yours,
re: LulusMom
I'm going to go ahead and toss my vote in with the revisit the ITALIAN EASY books and GOURMET TODAY crowd.
re: LulusMom
I'm not keen on continuing with Wolfert as I can't see myself getting to grips with more than a couple of her South-West France recipes. There have been few reports so far and I can't see the momentum for her books building, really.
I'd be happy to do a Jamie Oliver book at some point in the future, and I'd also like to do Nigel Slater at some point, who one of Britain's favourite cookbook authors, renowned for his beautiful writing and accessible recipes.
But for December, I'm think it's a good idea to revisit earlier books due to time constraints, and am happy to throw my lot in with the ITALIAN EASY and GOURMET TODAY crew.
re: greedygirl
I'd like to try Nigel Slater too. The siren came calling in a previous COTM nomination thread. I have also purchased some Rose Prince books that also seem accessible, but not ordinary.
re: greedygirl
Oh yes Nigel Slater is on my COTM agenda too. Glad I have company.
re: The Dairy Queen
me 3 (or I guess that would be 4).
re: LulusMom
I'm definitely up for Nigel Slater month since I cook so much from him anyway. I haven't got the new Tender yet but have all the rest of his. The one I cook from most is Appetite but I'd like to cook more from Kitchen Diaries.
What about CONTINUING PAULA WOLFERT for December instead of selecting something new? I feel like I've just barely started to look at the books. Many of her recipes are fancy enough to be good for holiday entertaining. Plus anyone who has started their confits now will be able to use them in December.
re: Karen_Schaffer
That is a very viable option indeed. Let's see what the "crowds" think.
re: Karen_Schaffer
I vote for KS's suggestion CONTINUING PAULA WOLFERT for December.
re: oakjoan
well in ;reality I am going to be continueing Paula Wolfert in Dec. whether or not its a formal selection of the group so those of us who choose to do this can simply continue.
re: jen kalb
jen kalb: I agree and will be cooking along with you. There are lots of recipes that are not complicated...many don't even require confit of duck.
I'm going to be making the Gratin of Potatoes in the Style of the Auvergne this weekend...it's sliced potatoes baked in milk, cream, blue cheese, jack cheese and garlic. I'm not going to use the cream...maybe a tablespoon of half and half.
Another pretty easy recipe which is delicious is the Island of Lipari Spicy Bread Salad. It's just crusty bread cubed, toasted in the oven, and then mixed with tomatoes, chopped scallions, cornichons, chopped parsley and pickled peppers or pepperoncini mixed together with oregano and olive oil. She calls for the tomatoes to be peeled, but I never do that.
re: oakjoan
Even flat on my back sick looking through World of Food I found a lot of recipes I'd like to make.
re: oakjoan
Yes, for those of us participating in the Wolfert COTM at least, it makes a lot of sense as starting in on a new cookbook w/any real commitment during the height of holiday season is pretty difficult.
Since there's been so much discussion on what constitutes American food (United Dish of America debate: http://chowhound.chow.com/topics/744771 What is American cuisine: http://chowhound.chow.com/topics/700893 ) and seeing we've never done a JAMES BEARD book, I nominate JAMES BEARD'S AMERICAN COOKERY, or any Beard book.
While I understand the inclination to re-do Wolfert, it would actually be a threepeat as The Slow Mediterranean Kitchen was done in March 2008.
re: MplsM ary
It seems JB's American Cookery has just been re-released this year. For those who are members of the Good Cook, it's available in the club.
re: MplsM ary
JAMES BEARD'S AMERICAN COOKERY appeals to me too so count my vote please
re: MplsM ary
I've had American Cookery for probably 35+ years. I know I've used it for reference, but I don't recall cooking from it much. I just hauled it off the shelf and tried to look at it as though it were a new-to-me book that I'd never seen before.
There's a lot there that appeals to me: It has many old-fashioned recipes such as Scrapple and Welsh Rabbit. It doesn't shy away from the unusual; how many cookbooks today contain 11 recipes for sweetbreads, 7 recipes for calf's brains, and then throw in quite a few paragraphs on how to approach a calf's head? Really interesting reading. And it has recipes for pickles and candies and breads and just about everything imaginable.
Quite a few of the recipes are flat-out unappealing. No, I will not be making the "Liver and Veal Loaf, to Be Eaten Cold," or the "Cold Pig's Feet with Rémoulade Sauce." (Would love to read about it, though, if someone else did.) But many seem to be good (if not inspired), basic recipes for chowders and meat loaves and stews and casseroles. One recipe that caught my eye in light of this months COTM was his Cassoulet. It contains 3 lbs each of pork and lamb shoulder, 1 pig's foot, some salt pork and a big kielbasy. Almost makes you want to giggle.
The book has more than 1500 recipes and it would be kinda fun to throw it open to this group to see who could ferret out the really choice morsels and to see who might be interested in experimenting with the offal and oddities. I think this would be more of a history/research project than our usual COTM selections and I doubt that people who don't have the book would feel they needed to add it to their collection. Nonetheless, I'd be interested in giving JAMES BEARD'S AMERICAN COOKERY a try just to see what might happen.
re: JoanN
I'm a vegetarian so a LOT of American Cookery is not for me. But I love the fellow's style. Recipe-wise he's all-inclusive with a bit of Beat Poet. I don't participate online with COTM but I have many of the books and have silently cooked alongside COTM-ers many times. I've had little to add. I actually think I could swing a veggie take on a couple American Cookery recipes.
GREEN GOURMET BOOK. I was in Egypt when it was done last time, and it seemed like it had a ton of interesting recipes in many cuisines. December is a bear in terms of so much going on (November is turning out that way too), and an adaptable book with many options really appeals to me.
I've never participated - and eagerly got the two Wolfert books but they are sitting by my bedside and it is a push to find something that is calling to me. That said, I am hoping to participate in the next month - whatever is selected - but I have the CIA cookbook - and maybe by suggesting this it will prompt others to consider it. I have never cooked from it. I also have The Best of Gourmet . But Whatever !
re: smilingal
What is the CIA cookbook, smilingal?
re: nomadchowwoman
Culinary Institute of America, maybe? I think they have several cookbooks, one specifically for non-professional home cooking. Could be great!
re: Gio
oh - yippee - maybe this could work?! Yes, it is the top selection that Gio has posted.
re: blue room
Thx--ok, i have one of their little paperbacks, many years old. I didn't realize they had a big book out. I'll have to look into it. Groan (or at least that's what my bookshelf will do).
re: nomadchowwoman
re: smilingal
Very doubtful here, unfortunately.
re: nomadchowwoman
ohh - just looked to see where "here" is --- I am planning a trip for 6 of us to come to your "here" in Feb or March! Haven't started the planning yet.
re: smilingal
When you do, check out the NO boards--lots of knowledgeable (and opinionated) discussion goes on, and I'll be happy to pipe in. Will it be your first trip? (OK I better stop asking questions before I get kicked off this board.)
This is my first time participating too. I just started posting on CH, but I've been lurking for many years. Seems like a lot of the books suggested so far have been done fairly recently, so I'll throw out a couple of new suggestions. How about the CANAL HOUSE books? There are five volumes now, and I'm proposing to include the whole series. Another suggestion would be a couple by Stephane Reynaud, RIPAILLES/FRENCH FEASTS and the new one, 365 REASONS TO SIT DOWN TO EAT.
re: MelMM
I love the idea of the CH books, but not for December--not just for the purely selfish reason that theyr'e on my Xmas Wish List, but also b/c we couldn't do justice--esp to all of them--in such a busy month. I'd love to see us do the CH books over a 2-month span (but I'm one of those who likes the 2-month period better, and I know lots of people here prefer the one-month period).
re: nomadchowwoman
just did a search for Canal House on our library's website - can you offer more info? Author?
Title of book/s?
re: smilingal
went on Amazon to check them out - are these a magazine series? Spoke with our library directly and they are doing some research on it - but they felt that it possibly is a magazine series.
re: smilingal
It's a series of volumes by Christopher Hirsheimer and Melissa Hamilton.
Canal House Cooking Vol 1- ? Maybe 6 or 7 so far?
My library doesn't have them. I think they are proving to be a little obscure, but they are just gorgeous little books.
re: rabaja
They are putting out three volumes per year, so you could consider them a periodical. But they are more like small books than magazines. Self-published. In addition to Amazon, you can get them direct from the Canal House web site:
There are five volumes so far.
re: jen kalb
JEN - thank you so much for that article - and from that I copied that delicious looking and sounding recipe of scallion meatballs with soy-ginger glaze! thanks again!
re: smilingal
Same here! Looks great, I may make those meatballs tomorrow. I think I even have everything on hand.
re: greeneggsnham
Those meatballs do look yummy, they remind me of something I was served at a cocktail party - an Asian-style turkey patty wrapped in lettuce. I think some diced water chestnuts would be nice in the meat mixture.
re: Breadcrumbs
I can offer a testimonial: those meatballs are wondrous; they made me start coveting those CH volumes seriously.
re: nomadchowwoman
nomad - you made them? Good for a cocktail party I would suppose? Any recommendations you would advise? I didn't put two and two together that these two women were from the books we were discussing! sometimes I could be slow!
I say it is due to global warming!
Breadcrumbs - water chestnuts might be a nice addition! I like them just as a standalone meatball with the glaze poured over served with toothpicks.
re: smilingal
I made these for a "girls' night in," when four or five of us get together and consume appetizer-y things and a few cocktails or glasses of wine. I followed the recipe pretty much as is, using sake as I had no mirin, and they were yummy. I am particularly fond of turkey meatballs for some reason, and these did not disappoint. I love all the ideas for changing them up a bit, too, and I especially like the idea of wrapping them in lettuce leaves. Yum.
I know we probabay don't *need* any more cookbooks, but these CH books really are gorgeous. And the few recipes I've seen seem terrific. I'm just sayin'--not twistin' . . . : )
re: nomadchowwoman
I'll go to Williams Sonoma to check them out. I posted another thread but unfortunately no one has replied - I am looking for appetizers for a post Ny's Eve day party!
re: nomadchowwoman
I reeeeeeeely don't want to buy more cookbooks - I just had bought a cookbook rack for the kitchen a couple of months ago - and today I was contemplating giving up one shelf to buy a small TV for the kitchen - but you are really twisting my arm - OUCH - all the way from NOLA!
re: MelMM
I would be thrilled if the Canal House books were a future COTM, but I agree they would be better in the new year.
These books are gorgeous and would certainly warrent two months.
Oh, and they are on my Xmas list too!
ETA: it seems like Dec '10 should just be a free-for-all of ALL past COTM, especially with all the spotty participation we've had the last couple of months.
Is that just too unorganized a concept to suggest? Perhaps.
re: rabaja
Just to say that the Canal House books aren't available in the UK at all, and have very limited availability on Amazon.com.
re: greedygirl
Did not realize that. Sorry, GG.
re: greedygirl
I was just looking at them on Amazon too. Limited, but not impossible. I guess I'd better get that list off to Santa sooner this year.
We have a local store that carries them all, but it does get pricey.
re: rabaja
The first one is something like $135!
re: greedygirl
I think the books for COTM should be a bit more on the mass distribution side. Even Ottolenghi was only around $40 with shipping from the UK. I have yet to see it in US bookstores, by the way.
re: buttertart
It's in Kitchen Arts and Letters, but of course, that is a cookbook store and they'd be likely to have it anyway. Anyone still looking for it, can get it there...
re: greedygirl
I saw that. Ouch.
Hey, the second one is $19.95!
Ok, never gonna be COTM, I get it.
re: rabaja
right - I think that it won't make it --- sooooo - on that note - would those of you who are lucky to already own these send along your favorite recipes?
re: rabaja
I saw the first three volumes bundled at Williams-Sonoma. I think the set was 49.95. So you might offer that little hint to Santa.
re: nomadchowwoman
i know they are on your wish list - do you have any of them?
re: smilingal
No, but I covet them--they are gorgeous. Hope Santa is listening . . . if not I'm underlining them--at least twice--on my list!
re: greedygirl
Thanks for the Canal House recommendation. I can't wait to check it out.
Re December, I will acknowledge I have been a little slow to respond to the November COTM discussion, but I don't think extending it for another month will help. Paula's recipes can be a little off-putting. That is, I think you really have to be in a certain mood, which apparently, I have not been in. Maybe next year, we can consider doing a Thanksgiving cookbook for November, since everyone's mind is on turkey anyway.
I propose we select a favorite holiday cookbook - Channukah/Christmas/Kwanzaa or one of each for December???
Some suggested titles to get the ball rolling...
THE JEWISH HOLIDAY COOKBOOK by Gloria Kaufer Green or
THE BOOK OF JEWISH FOOD by Claudia Roden and
KWANZAA by Eric V. Copage
Someone else will have to suggest the Christmas title
If we go this route, maybe everyone can share a little about their favorite holiday meals in addition to discussing the recipes. A nice way for all of us to get to know each other a little better.
re: dkennedy
Oh - I also love hmmmmmmmm ---- Arthur Schwartz's Jewish Home Cooking!
Good Idea!
Has Alton Brown come up as a serious candidate here? Either his cookbooks or his Food Network online recipes?
re: blue room
ohhh - I like that idea - not necessarily Alton Brown - but the idea of a specific chef on Food Network online recipes!
re: smilingal
I always think of him as the poor man's Harold McGee.
re: roxlet
Except that Harold McGee doesn't offer recipes and Alton Brown does--often some rather good ones, even though they can get a bit nerdy.
re: buttertart
My eyebrows shot up at that ad as well, but it sounded more like a Mythbusters for the cookbook crowd, didn't it?
re: smilingal
I think he's on PBS not Food TV but I would like to do Ming Tsai. He has definitely changed our pantry! Everything he makes is fast and fairly easy and you get to fool around with asian ingredients.
re: Berheenia
In the US, I believe he's on the Food Network. Does he also have a show on PBS?
re: LulusMom
He can be found on "Simply Ming" on PBS and "East Meets West with Ming Tsai" on The Food Network. He's on the Create channel too.
ETA: We've had dinner at his restaurant Blus Ginger and the food was terrific in every sense. He's regularly in the kitchen and pops out every now and then. He stopped at our table of 8 and was utterly charming. Handsone too...! Much taller than he looks on the telly.
re: blue room
I think it would be great fun to have an Alton Brown month sometime, including any/all cookbooks plus on-line recipes. But please, not December!
I know I'm probably a lone voice in the wilderness, but I'd favor revisiting BITTMAN'S HOW TO COOK EVERYTHING for December. It's one of the few that I might actually look at during the crazy season.
Any interest in revisiting All About Braising? I just received this book and have been totally taken with it. Only made one thing so far, but it was a big hit and is just the type of cooking I want to do right now (warm and comforting and the option to throw in oven ahead of time and have a relatively peaceful evening without tending the stove).
I would rather not continue Wolfert. Actually bought World of Food, but just haven't been inspired. Between the off-limits ingredients (pregnant) and time committment, I haven't made a single thing (plus I think attention distracted by infatuation with Braising).
Realistically, I will likely only be a peripheral participant given the crazy holiday season (made even crazier by my husband I trying to get all our call in before new baby is due at end of December). But I'd be game for some braising, or Gourmet (have the yellow book and cook from it intermittently-- would like an excuse to do more).
re: greeneggsnham
We've revisited All About Braising once before, so, this would be the third go-round. Nevertheless, it's a great book and this is a great season for it.
Good luck with the new baby. Are you doing a lot of advance cooking/freezing to prepare yourself?
re: greeneggsnham
Oh congratulations sweetheart! What you need is something where you can double the recipe and freeze the second half. Braising would, I'd think, work really well for that, but we've done the revisit on that one before.
re: LulusMom
My post ended up in the middle of the discussion so I am reposting here.
I propose we select a favorite holiday cookbook - Channukah/Christmas/Kwanzaa or one of each for December???
Some suggested titles to get the ball rolling...
THE JEWISH HOLIDAY COOKBOOK by Gloria Kaufer Green or
THE BOOK OF JEWISH FOOD by Claudia Roden and
KWANZAA by Eric V. Copage
Someone else will have to suggest the Christmas title
If we go this route, maybe everyone can share a little about their favorite holiday meals in addition to discussing the recipes. A nice way for all of us to get to know each other a little better.
re: dkennedy
That's an interesting proposal. I have "The Book of Jewish Food" by Claudia Roden, "Celebrations Italian Style" by Mary Ann Esposito, and "The Frugal Gourmet Celebrates Christmas" by Jeff Smith. Hmmmmmm.... I wonder....
re: Gio
I was impressed with Arthur Schwartz's Jewish Home Cooking after I had borrowed it from the library - that it was thus far, the only one, that made me buy it from Borders. That was before joined I CH and have now learned of all the discount sites to look at - TY! - but the point is - I LOVE THE BOOK!
re: smilingal
I have that book as well but haven't cooked anything from it except the Chow Mein recipe... which was pretty good, as i recall.
re: The Dairy Queen
Is this the Nigella Christmas from 2009?
I just requested it from my library.
Holiday books for December would be a lot of fun. It would be a good excuse to break out my Martha too.
re: rabaja
I think we are on to something!!!
re: dkennedy
So, dkennedy, is your idea that we all just cook from a mishmash of December holiday books, whatever your particular holiday is and whatever your particular fav book is? And then smtucker, bless her patient heart, would then just set up the threads as "COTM December Holiday Books"+course?
So, cotm d.h.b. apps? cotm dhb soups and salads? cotm dhb vegetables and sides? cotm dhb meats, dhb fowl & seafood, cotm dhb grains, legumes, pastas? cotm dhb desserts?
And we all just jump in, of course, remembering to disclose the name of our book and recipe? Christmas & New Years Eve would be my particular holiday and I can totally see cooking from Nigella Christmas, Eliz David Christmas, John Clancy's Christmas Cookbook.
Also, David Tanis new book Heart of the Artichoke has a fantastic sounding New Years Eve menu I'd love to cook from, would that count even though it's not specifically a "holiday" book per se...
I'm kind of warming to this...
re: The Dairy Queen
I'm trying to figure out how we pay overtime on an unpaid position ... (for smtucker).
re: LulusMom
It goes into her retirement account, but Congress will probably gut it in the next few months...so smtucker, you better spend while you can!
re: rabaja
re: The Dairy Queen
If you think it would work, it would be a lot of fun. I'd love to hear about everyone else's traditions and what they serve and why. For my family, the big food holidays are Thanksgiving and Passover. Hannukah usually consists of a bagels, lox and cream cheese platter ordered in from Brent's (oh, that sounds so good...) but not very recipe friendly.
Now that my oldest son started middle school, we are just getting back to the stage where we can entertain at night without things ending at 8:30! I may try to incorporate a small New Year's party this year. I would love to vicariously go to some tree trimming parties or Christmas eve dinners with all of you.
re: The Dairy Queen
Funny you should bring that up. I made Nigella's quince brandy last year (actually can't remember if it's from her holiday book or from Goddess) and used, it turned out, tasteless quinces. I just tasted it again, as I do every 4 months or so, with the same result. I think I'll dump the quinces and put some other fruit into the brandy.
Unfortunately, a friend just gave me a whole bunch of pomegranates, persimmons and pineapple guavas....I don't know what to do with them all. Well, the persimmons can be made into cake and pudding...but the others?
re: oakjoan
You have the 70's Joy? There's a cake with fruit in it (near the French apple cake) that mentions someone having made it with pineapple guavas to great success. Thanks for the smell hallucination, Berk Produce Center 1974 division, had never seen them before then - they have a very distinctive smell.
re: The Dairy Queen
I bought Nigella's Christmas virtually new from abebooks, looked at it excitedly, then put it up on a top shelf. I was totally not inspired/excited by it, and I love her How to Be a Domestic Goddess...
re: roxlet
Oh, bummer, but good to know.
re: roxlet
I've got it and have made quite a few things from it, including two of the Christmas cakes, the cupcakes and some of the canapes. I love the poinsettia cocktail and it makes a regular appearance at my Boxing Day party - certainly makes things go with a swing! The mulled cider is also really good.
re: greedygirl
I love this book though haven't cooked a huge amount from it. Christmas lunch is the Brit quivalent of American Thanksgiving - turkey, stuffing, lots of vegetable sides followed by Christmas pudding (a dried fruit steamed pudding) and I did most of it last year from this book. It covers all the basics plus some great entertaining menus. Don't know why she missed out Frangipane mince pies from Domestic Goddess as that is her single best Christmas recipe.
re: dkennedy
I'm not going to nominate it because it's out of print, but a really wonderful Christmas book is John Clancy's Christmas Cookbook. I don't celebrate Christmas, but I love this book for entertaining and make a number of dishes in it for Thanksgiving. Used copies are selling for a couple of bucks on Amazon. It's a small book (won't take up too much room on the shelf), packed with good recipes and good ideas,
Another holiday book that I'm not nominating because it's too late and it's also out of print is Anthony Dias Blue's Thanksgiving Dinner. And this one's available for literally pennies on Amazon. Been making his Wild Rice and Toasted Pecan Stuffing for years and years. My family would have no other. Can't make Thanksgiving Dinner without it.
re: roxlet
I really think you're going to like them. Certainly hope so. I'm running off to a meeting, but when I get a chance I'll list some of my faves. There are a lot of them.
re: LulusMom
Oh, didn't realize it had already been revisited. Wasn't reading the old threads too closely! Probably not good idea for a third go around.
May not be organized enough to do any cooking/freezing ahead-- let's be honest, still haven't figured out exactly where the baby is going to sleep! But there is still about 6 weeks to go, and there are a lot of dishes in the book I am excited about braising. Also seems like a method that is easy to make large quantities and should generally freeze pretty well. I figure even if I don't get the freezer stocked, that is also the kind of cooking I'll be best able to do on maternity leave. Get some stuff done while the baby sleeps and then not worry about exact timing at dinner time.
re: greeneggsnham
What about BRAISE from Daniel Boulud instead to have the same cooking style but from a different book.
smtucker speaks!
This month's nomination has had very few nominations and some very far reaching discussions which would be very hard to gather into a voting thread. So few capital letters; so many posts!
Please don't forget to nominate with capital letters, and DESSERTS OF LAPLAND does not count oakjoan. ;-)
If a suggestion tickles your fancy and you have already voted, feel free to use the MINUS method to recast your vote. [MINUS then your new nomination IN ALL CAPS.]
re: smtucker
OH YAY Intrepid Leader. Goodly Luck with this wayward unruly band.
With a hey nonny nonny.
re: smtucker
not sure about the pluses and minuses - but .... CIA INSTITUTE COOKBOOK
I'd bet it can even bring us over into January!
re: smtucker
MINUS JAMES BEARD'S AMERICAN COOKERY cast earlier
new vote for
It looks really good plus I miss my monthly Gourmet- I used to make something from the easy section almost every month. Amazon lets you see the entire table of contents and it seems a good book for all the December holidays. Only drawback library wise it that it's a "new" book in our system so I can only keep it for 2 weeks.
re: Berheenia
Once you get GT in hand, Berheenia, You'll want to buy it. I've been using it regularly since it was COTM during May/June of this year.
re: smtucker
Hey! Smtucker! Whaddya got something against Lapp cooking?
The Culinary Institute book interests me, but
Christmas at my house (just me + he) is so laid back as to be practically non-existent, and like dkennedy, I would like to look through others holiday windows, but
I feel like I'm abandoning Wolfert without *really* giving it a go, and I didn't even vote last month, because I had commited to the baking books, but
I don't want this this to be a chore, so
GREEN GOURMET TODAY is my choice. I'm pretty sure it's got something for everyone, many people already have this book (?), I see you can get it on Amazon for less than $10, and if you simply carry it with you from room to room during the month of December you'll gain less weight than otherwise (big heavy book!) and -- it has 2 green ribbons..
re: blue room
Can we link the voting thread here when it is posted, I always have trouble finding it.
No reason to vote this month... Here is a link to the announcement thread.


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