JOIN THE FOOD REVOLUTION—IT’S NOT TOO LATE! We celebrated Food Revolution Day with Jamie Oliver last Friday, but the #FoodRevolution isn’t over yet! You still have 6 days left (deadline is Sunday, May 29th at midnight EST) to enter our two Food Revolution contests. Here’s how! 1. Join Jamie Oliver on…
Daniel Nowland is the Head of Technical at Jamie Oliver Ltd. What does that mean? (We had to ask too.) Basically, anything involving food values, ethics and sourcing is Daniel’s domain—he develops Jamie’s Food Standards, and implements them. So he helps spread the sustainable,…
FOOD REVOLUTION WEEK —TIME TO KICK INTO ACTION Food Revolution Day is this Friday, May 20th! How are you going to celebrate to help Foodstand and Jamie Oliver fix the food system? Join us at our Food Revolution Day events all week long to celebrate IRL (in real…
Michael Moss is a Pulitzer Prize-winning investigative reporter who has most recently developed an important and successful career writing about health, marketing, policy and corporate interests relating to the food industry. His illuminating book, Salt Sugar Fat: How the Food Giants Hooked Us, is a #1 New York Times bestseller and…
INVITE YOUR FRIENDS AND GET INTO THE KITCHEN The Food Revolution is underway! As you know, this month we’re partnering with Jamie Oliver’s Food Revolution Day to do our part to fix the food system. You’ve been showing us your #FoodRevolution posts on the Foodstand app,…
There was still a little chill in the air the day Foodstand’s Summer Rayne Oakes (@sugardetoxme) sat down to interview Barry Benepe. They agreed to meet at the Union Square Greenmarket on a Wednesday—one of the busiest market days of the week (~300,000 walk throughs in…
FOOD REVOLUTION DAY WITH JAMIE OLIVER AND FOODSTAND This month, we’re partnering with Jamie Oliver’s Food Revolution Day to do our part to fix the food system. We know hyper processed food makes our communities and our planet unhealthy, but we can take charge in our own homes…
Edie Feinstein (@EdieBKFW) is the Community and Marketing Manager at Brooklyn FoodWorks. As a native New Yorker, Brooklyn is familiar territory, but running a kitchen that houses over 50 food startups is entirely new! We’ve gotten to know Edie and Brooklyn FoodWorks through various events…
ANOTHER KIND OF GREEN: DELAYED HEALTH COSTS No, eating the occasional hamburger is not going to automatically trigger significant health issues when we get older (and yes, that burger up there does look delicious). But a consistent diet of food that is cheaply made…
Anastasia Cole Plakias, Co-Founder of Brooklyn Grange Rooftop Farms (@brooklyngrange) and author of The Farm on the Roof, lives and breathes urban, sustainable farming. She’s the ultimate inspiration for Earth Day! What was once a dream is now the world’s largest rooftop soil farm, and…