Tag Archive: Food

GPIA Student Jessica Souza | Raising Awareness of Corbin Hill Food Project

Video documentaries encourage students to think critically about issues that affect our community. Recently, Milano International Affairs student Jessica Souza profiled the Corbin Hill Food Project (CHFP). “CHFP has had film pieces produced on what we do by media outlets from the New York Times to ABC. I find this piece special,” says Milano Management professor and Corbin Hill Farm founder Dennis Derryck.

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“You Say Tomato” by Lisa Servon

Urban Policy Professor Lisa Servon reflects on the perfect tomato sandwich, of which she says every good tomato-producing country creates using “thick slices of ripe, red tomatoes, warm from the vine.” Read this delicious writing piece “You Say Tomato” in The Inquisitive Eater.  

Urban Policy Alum Phil Silva on Urban Agriculture in The New Yorker

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Urban Policy Alum and current Eugene Lang College part-time faculty member, Phil Silva, discusses measuring the impact of urban agriculture in New York City in this week’s The New  Yorker. Silva teaches courses at both Lang and Parsons in Urban Forestry and the Natural History of NYC.

“How to Eat Healthy in the Big City – And Not Have to Pay for It” by Nicole Brownstein

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Urban Policy student, and good eats connoisseur, Nicole Brownstein published an article on PolicyMic citing creative ways to eat healthy in NYC. From growing produce on a fire escape to using old cans and jars to plant herbs, there are plenty of opportunities to eat healthy and save money!