Rivers Beneath the City: Connecting Your Neighborhoods to the Mississippi
1 2018-03-02T22:01:42-08:00 Food and Society Workshop 0826c60623ca5f5c8c1eb72fc2e97084d0c44cf8 15346 1 Rivers of rain water and snow melt flow below ground carrying pollution from city streets and sidewalks directly to the Mississippi River. This video includes a first look at the historic Trout Brook Storm Sewer System, which is about 100 years old. Capitol Region Watershed District owns, operates and maintains the system and works with residents to keep our communities, lakes and rivers clean. plain 2018-03-02T22:01:42-08:00 Vimeo 2017-03-13T09:49:16 video 208134713 Capitol Region Watershed Dist. Food and Society Workshop 0826c60623ca5f5c8c1eb72fc2e97084d0c44cf8This page is referenced by:
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Fish that will kill you / fish that you will kill
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Woodblock print, stories, and recipes from 2003 to 2018
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Fifteen years ago, I became fascinated by fish as a food source: fish fats were being hailed as a significant resource for responding to stress- and diet-based inflammation, and yet fish were endangered and filled with toxins. This project explored these tensions as an entry point to considering relational eating, and led to a larger project on relating the pleasures and perils of eating.
In the Art of Food in Frogtown and Rondo, fish usually comes up in one of two contexts: fishing and fried fish. Fried fish, like chicken, is often considered an excellent accompaniment to greens. Tilapia (one of the only "vegetarian" fishes, and hence a less expensive farmed fish) is often used for this in bought food -- and in homemade food, several people use fish they've caught.
In this recipe story, I'd like to ask community members to help come up with at least three fish recipes that correspond to three videos that I've really appreciated in terms of their telling stories about the habitat and social ecology of fish (especially as food) where I live:
