A Big Move for City Harvest, and More Restaura

Headliner The Cohen Community Food Rescue Center For nearly 40 years, City Harvest has collected food that would otherwise go to waste from restaurants, supermarkets, caterers, farms and others to supply soup kitchens, food pantries and the like. Now, it has moved into a 150,000-square-foot headquarters in Sunset Park, Brooklyn. The organization had offices and…

Artists and the Food That Inspires Them

Ucross, located on a ranch in northeast Wyoming, houses an artist residency program founded in 1983 and has provided inspiration to such figures as the poet and performer Karma Mayet Johnson, the journalist and novelist Suki Kim and the baritone Nathan Gunn, among many others. Their tenures at the ranch were punctuated by meals from…

The Meaning of Spam, Onstage

Spam, the tinned pork product created by Hormel Foods 85 years ago, is a longstanding subject of delight to some and derision to others. It was a mainstay in the American military and became popular in Asian and Pacific communities, first near U.S. bases, notably in Hawaii and Korea, before becoming widespread. Now, a staged…