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Meaghin Kennedy is a writer and photographer who advocates for a sustainable food system. She lives in Portland, OR.
Even though our recent move was voluntary, I’ve still found myself searching for the familiar in this unfamiliar city. A sense of familiarity is especially necessary when your home-space remains a tad chaotic and you’re five days deep into a cold, rainy weather pattern. To ease the transition, I’ve tried to replicate certain arrangements we [...]
Where: PSU Park Blocks, Portland When: March 17th, 2012 I awoke on Saturday to the realization that it was both St. Patrick’s Day and the opening day of Portland’s farmers’ market. Anytime St. Patrick’s Day falls on a weekend, it’s fair to expect complete insanity. I expect to see girls walking around in ‘Kiss Me, [...]
Smelling a ripe peach immediately brings to mind several food memories: summers on my parents’ deck, eating the fruit as quickly as I could as it leaked all over my arm. Family beach trips to South Carolina and finishing dinner with a peach. And most recently, our trip to Fishfill Farms, on an especially hot [...]
I used to sporadically watch Jeopardy and my favorite segment was always the cringe-worthy question and answer sessions between Alex Trebek and the contestants. Trebek has a question for each contestant that’s designed to give viewers a glimpse into his/her personality. But for the most part, every contestant clams up and answers awkwardly and Trebek [...]
Where: Union Square Greenmarket When: January 25, 2012 Across the country, January was the fourth warmest January on record. And in Minnesota, where my brother lives, it was the warmest in recorded history. He’s been (justifiably) bemoaning the lack of snow all winter, as one of his favorite hobbies is cross-country skiing. He and my [...]
I knew I wanted to tackle one more canning and preserving project this Winter before we move. And I wanted my canning project to meet these stipulations: a) It needed to feature a product readily available at the farmers’ market; b) It needed to be something that could be used in more than one way; [...]
When I was in the kitchen with Alison and Michael of Butter + Love, I watched the entire process of jam cookie creation. I wasn’t able to stay long enough to see their quirky mustache cookies come to life, so a few weekends ago when my mother-in-law was in town, we made a special trip [...]
Because I spent three hours with Alison and Michael of Butter + Love, I came home with more pictures than I was able to share in the original article. I stayed for the entire process, from breaking eggs and mixing dough, to stamping out the shapes and baking the cookies, to the final stages of [...]
A girl from a large, close-knit Kansas family graduates high school and moves East. After a year at Boston University, she packs her bags and moves to New York City to pursue a life on the stage. Thirteen years, multiple apartments, and numerous plays later, you find her in Brooklyn, juggling a wholesale bakery while [...]
On Monday, I spent three hours in a Sunset Park industrial kitchen with Alison Walla of Butter + Love. Along with her boyfriend Michael Phillips, Alison bakes whimsical shortbread and butter cookies, in many cases using well-loved and tested family recipes. I’m eager to elaborate about Butter + Love and share my photographs of Alison [...]
