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NPR/The Salt Nancy Matsumoto 3/22/17 NPR/The Salt Nancy Matsumoto 3/22/17

Why More Farmers Are Making The Switch To Grass-Fed Meat And Dairy

How some grass-fed dairy and meat business are helping their suppliers convert to more sustainable ways, one farm at a time.

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Medium Nancy Matsumoto 3/6/17 Medium Nancy Matsumoto 3/6/17

Sage Advice from the Brightest Minds of Sustainable Agriculture

What three dozen leaders have to say about food, farming and our future.

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Food & Wine Nancy Matsumoto 1/30/17 Food & Wine Nancy Matsumoto 1/30/17

The Best Izakaya in Toronto—and What to Eat and Drink There

Toronto's Izakaya scene is bustling. Here, a guide to the best spots in town and what you should be sampling there. Sake pairings included.

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Civil Eats Nancy Matsumoto 1/10/17 Civil Eats Nancy Matsumoto 1/10/17

Sustainable Meat Supporters and Vegan Activists Both Claim Bullying

Two vocal groups that share a distaste for factory farming are increasingly at odds.

 

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Sake Today Nancy Matsumoto 1/4/17 Sake Today Nancy Matsumoto 1/4/17

Izumi Sake: A Great Brewery by a Great Lake

Profile of local Toronto sake Brewery Izumi Ontario Spring Water Sake Company and its founder and president, Ken Valvur.

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Sake Today Nancy Matsumoto 11/10/16 Sake Today Nancy Matsumoto 11/10/16

Rumiko Obata, Obata Sake Brewery

A fifth-generation sake brewery owner forsakes life in the big city and returns home to Sado Island, ushering the family business into a new era of international prominence.

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Food & Wine, Civil Eats Nancy Matsumoto 10/25/16 Food & Wine, Civil Eats Nancy Matsumoto 10/25/16

Tina Antolini and Sara Camp Milam are Tracking Southern Food Culture

With a print journal and a podcast, these two women are exploring the rich culinary history of the changing American south

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Food & Wine Nancy Matsumoto 10/7/16 Food & Wine Nancy Matsumoto 10/7/16

Inside a Magical Pine-Themed Dinner

Watching chef-artist Michael Stadtländer in his element, a 100-acre Ontario forest, conjuring a 12-course dinner with wine pairings. 

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Edible Brooklyn Nancy Matsumoto 8/23/16 Edible Brooklyn Nancy Matsumoto 8/23/16

Williamsburg’'s New Fish Butcher Aims to Prevent Food Waste

Osakana specializes in high-quality sustainable fish and offers classes in cooking and butchering fish.

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Civil Eats Nancy Matsumoto 8/2/16 Civil Eats Nancy Matsumoto 8/2/16

Meet the Bee Heroes Working On the Front Lines to Save Pollinators

Can these scientists help our pollinators before it's too late?

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The Wall Street Journal Nancy Matsumoto 6/28/16 The Wall Street Journal Nancy Matsumoto 6/28/16

Inside a Minimalist Florida Kitchen

Annotated Room: Colombian-born designer Catalina Echavarria wanted to create ‘hang-out space’ drenched in white for her family’s home in Coconut Grove, Fla. A look at the costs.

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Edible Manhattan Nancy Matsumoto 6/20/16 Edible Manhattan Nancy Matsumoto 6/20/16

This City Slicker Couple Makes Some of the Northeast’s Best Cheese

In addition to the city’s top cheese shops and Greenmarkets, you’ll find Consider Bardwell’s cheese at Daniel, Eleven Madison Park and Roberta’s.

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Civil Eats Nancy Matsumoto 6/14/16 Civil Eats Nancy Matsumoto 6/14/16

The Grassfed Burger Gap

The number of restaurants serving grassfed burgers is growing, but most are eschewing ground beef from small-scale U.S. producers in favor of foreign meat.

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Food & Wine Nancy Matsumoto 6/1/16 Food & Wine Nancy Matsumoto 6/1/16

Erin Fairbanks is Broadcasting Food System Change, Live From Brooklyn

How the executive director of Heritage Radio Networks grew into her role as a food systems thought leader.

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DiscoverNikkei.org Nancy Matsumoto 5/6/16 DiscoverNikkei.org Nancy Matsumoto 5/6/16

Revisiting Toyo Miyatake: Infinite Shades of Gray: An interview with Robert Nakamura and Karen Ishizuka

Revisiting the work of modernist photographer-turned prison camp inmate and documentarian Toyo Miyatake.

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Acres USA Nancy Matsumoto 5/1/16 Acres USA Nancy Matsumoto 5/1/16

Powered by Microbials: Organic Farming, Japanese Style

My visit to Konohana Family, an intentional community and organic farm at the foot of Mt. Fuji.

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Naturally Danny Seo Nancy Matsumoto 3/15/16 Naturally Danny Seo Nancy Matsumoto 3/15/16

The Good (& Green) Life: Say "aloha" to Constantin Bisanz, tech start-up entrepreneur

Bisanz sold his company to eBay for millions; his new mission is to democratize healthy living with his online wellness comapany ALOHA

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Ignition Nancy Matsumoto 3/11/16 Ignition Nancy Matsumoto 3/11/16

Fukushima Sake Diary: Five Years after 3.11, Spreading the Gospel of Natural and Organic Sake

Profile of pioneering sake maker Yasuhiko Niida

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DiscoverNikkei.org Nancy Matsumoto 2/16/16 DiscoverNikkei.org Nancy Matsumoto 2/16/16

JANM Photo Exhibit: Two Views: Photographs by Ansel Adams and Leonard Frank

Comparing the U.S. and Canadian WWII government prison camp experiences through the work of two photographers.

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People Nancy Matsumoto 2/8/16 People Nancy Matsumoto 2/8/16

Marie Kondo: The Queen of Clean

Japan's Decluttering Dynamo Has Shown Millions The Life-Changing Magic of Tidying Up

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Nancy Matsumoto is a writer and editor based in Toronto and New York City.