SXSW Panel Shares Tech Solutions to Global Food Quandaries

Google and others combat food waste and scarcity

"...technology improve the efficiency and quality of our global food systems? This is the question the SXSW panel The..."

March 16, 2022 SXSW Post by Rod Machen

Nü Food

Turns out the food replicators from 'Star Trek' weren't so far-fetched

"...a fair amount of ink in this issue celebrating food – what to eat, what to cook, where to..."

June 14, 2013 Screens Feature by Monica Riese

Alternative Fresh Food Options Still Serving Austin

The usual grocery suspects are crowded. Try these instead.

"...been subject to the same crowding, hoarding behaviors, and scarcity that are currently plaguing grocery stores across the world...."

April 17, 2020 Food Feature by Jessi Cape

Review: Don Japanese Food Truck

A good value that's also just good

"...of this particular ritual is Don, an unassuming Japanese food truck parked (oddly) beside udon restaurant Daito, which has..."

March 11, 2016 Food Feature by Brandon Watson

Food-o-File

"...but crop depletion and winter weather have caused a scarcity of local produce at the moment. Both the Historic..."

Jan. 22, 1999 Food Column by Virginia B. Wood

Beer, Cigarettes, and ... Vegetables?

City program attempts to bring fresh produce to convenience stores

"...among the pawn shops, laundromats, empty warehouses, and fast food restaurants that characterize the area. A part of the..."

Oct. 23, 2015 News Feature by Makeda Easter

Opinion: Hungry Children Need Healthy School Meals to Thrive

A pandemic-era program that supported hungry children is set to disappear at the end of June. Pediatricians urge a new focus on food for kids.

"...I don't know what we will do to afford food." As I sit across from her, I notice Desmond..."

June 24, 2022 Column by Elizabeth Mann

The Big Show

The aesthetic at Girasole speaks to the food fashion of our age, according to Chronicle writer Rachel Feit. It is studied, indeed, almost market-researched in its appropriateness.

"...the medieval elite. In an age when the very scarcity of food formed a major preoccupation for the average..."

June 1, 2001 Food Feature by Rachel Feit

21 Years: Richard Linklater

A subject as worthy of a documentary as this one is deserves a more thoughtful approach than this star-studded tribute.

"...logical. Certain films are almost entirely shunned (subUrbia, Fast Food Nation, Linklater’s numerous projects with Speed Levitch, and his..."

Nov. 14, 2014 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

SXSW Eco Wrap

“Nature doesn’t need people, People need nature”

"...traditional environmental problems – such as sea level rise, food scarcity, and air pollution – seemed to rope in..."

Oct. 9, 2014 News Post by Jessi Cape

Green Reading

Environs

"...cultivated land area. The result, says PAI, could be food scarcity for one billion people within the next 30..."

May 5, 1995 Books Review by Robert Bryce

Environs

Books, Books, and More Books

"...cultivated land area. The result, says PAI, could be food scarcity for one billion people within the next 30..."

April 28, 1995 News Feature by Robert Bryce

Letters at 3AM

People of all political persuasions are beginning to face the reality that Americans' demand for oil is outpacing our supply and refining capacity, which in turn will cripple our economy's ability to grow. Our disposable society will become a scavenging society, and, on the brighter side, a more inventive society.

"...United States must change drastically to accommodate the coming scarcity of oil. His speech received scant coverage and prompted..."

Oct. 14, 2005 Column by Michael Ventura

Ecopocalypse Is Here

Are you scared of this postapocalyptic Austin?

"...launched Oct. 18 with a gala for the Sustainable Food Cen­ter and remains open through Halloween – avoids the..."

Oct. 26, 2012 News Feature by Richard Whittaker

The Way We Watch Now

Is theatrical-on-demand the next big thing?

"...readily available. "The exhibition industry model was built on scarcity and for 80-some odd years, it was all about..."

June 22, 2012 Screens Feature by Richard Whittaker

Letters at 3AM

With oil in the future rationed to agriculture, essential services, and (inevitably) the military, and personal long-distance driving and passenger flight no longer feasible – then, if the United States is to remain a continental entity, the only answer is trains

"...genuine in relation to a community. Somebody grows the food the rebel eats, somebody else transports it, somebody else..."

Oct. 28, 2005 Column by Michael Ventura

Foodie Is an Ethnocentric Word

Searching for diversity in culinary Austin

"...When we think of foodies, what kind of person do we see? For that..."

April 17, 2015 Food Feature by Rachel Feit

The Africa Cookbook: Tastes of a Continent

"...cultural notes which complete our knowledge of another people's food, otherwise garnered from tastes in ethnic restaurants or on..."

Feb. 19, 1999 Food Feature

Mincemeat

Give this amazing, ambrosial concoction a chance

"...it was extremely stylish to form jiggly towers of food or mold foods in curious, large molds so that..."

Nov. 28, 2008 Food Feature by Kate Thornberry

Free Will Astrology

Your weekly horoscope, February 5-11

"...your new home there. It's stocked with enough non-perishable food to feed you for 55 years – or 63..."

Feb. 5, 2021 Column by Rob Brezsny

My Life on Apps

The convenience and economics of living through your phone

"...a strong word. All we did was bring you food."..."

Jan. 30, 2015 Screens Feature by Chase Hoffberger

Eastern Crescent’s Path to Get Past Pandemic Is Rough

Finding a way out proves elusive for East Austin and beyond

"...water – as DVCC members and volunteers gave out food, water, PPE, diapers, and other essentials to residents driving..."

March 19, 2021 News Feature by Beth Sullivan

Speaking Volumes

The secret history of Austin's First Cookbook

"...together the materials for the yearlong exhibit on Austin's food history titled "How to Prepare a Possum." Intrigued by..."

March 6, 2015 Food Feature by MM Pack

June 18, 1996: Aguascalientes in La Realidad, Chiapas

"...this, who could become organized, maybe they could gather food, medicine or clothing, or money, which is directed not..."

July 12, 1996 News Feature

Austin Creative Alliance's Artists Emergency Relief Fund

ACA provides pandemic assistance, one artist at a time

"...of work or interruption in practice due to housing, food, or transportation insecurity," says organization CEO John Riedie. The..."

April 9, 2020 Arts Post by Robert Faires

Opinion: As Educators Scramble to “Do School” During a Pandemic, Tremendous Inequities Are Evident

What the shift to remote learning means for students who already had fewer resources and more hurdles to clear

"...access the internet, there have still been hurdles like scarcity and stipulations around the need for a new internet..."

April 3, 2020 Column by Autumn A. Arnett

The History of the LGBTQ Movement in Austin

From Stonewall to today, how Pride has progressed in our city

"..."radical gay culture," but notes there was a "great scarcity of women." One woman, identified by Ganther under the..."

Aug. 9, 2019 News Feature by Beth Sullivan

Texas Book Festival 2018: Meet the Indie Next Authors

Faves R.O. Kwon, Tommy Orange, and Nicole Chung get personal

"...she didn’t have to have white protagonists: “Oh, Korean food can be in a book!” Orange admitted that working..."

Oct. 28, 2018 Arts Post by Rosalind Faires

The Singularity Is Clear

Getting down to brass tacks about one of Interactive's favorite buzzwords

"...endless celestial void for the manager's position at the food co-op. Folks today thank the Universe because it makes..."

Feb. 28, 2014 Screens Feature by Alex Dunbar

SXSW Eco: Can We All Just Get Along?

Former Gov. Bill Ritter considers the possibility of cooperation

"..."there's this real significant relationship between energy, water, and food production." Case in point: the oil and gas fields..."

Oct. 7, 2011 News Feature by Richard Whittaker

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