About this Newsletter
Welcome. I’m Kim. I write about issues that strengthen and weaken our communities. Often these things intersect with food, but sometimes not.
I post essays on Thursdays, although I will take breaks now and again. And recipes will go out on Sundays. Right now, this newsletter is FREE to all subscribers, although if I continue to post recipes, that feature might go to paid in the New Year.
If you can, please support my book, The Meth Lunches: Food + Longing in an American City, out now with St. Martin’s press. I’d so appreciate it if you could help get the word out; send telegrams, doves, talk about it with friends, buy copies for yourself and folks who might appreciate it, discuss it on GoodReads, write an amazon review. All of that matters.
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Thank you, as always, for reading. - Kim
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Here are some of my greatest hits to get you started:
On Parenting + Family:
Bipolar And the Secret Lives of Teenage Daughters
Stealing On Fetuses (and Children) Who Steal
Blocked Care On Loving Children Who May Never Love You Back
Night Kitchen Who Does the Kitchen Belong To?
The Collected Phobias Fears of Travel, Food, the World, People, Requests + Demands
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On Food:
Food Desert Mythology Why Putting a Supermarket in a Neighbourhood Won’t make People Eat Healthier
First Grade Soup On Big Food's marketing of junk foods in elementary schools + what to do about it.
A Life in the Kitchen Our Relationship to Cooking Changes as We Change
The Meth Lunches All About the Food in the Book
Class Red Lobster, Alain Ducasse + Red Lobster
Dysregulated On What the Kitchen is Like When the Cook is a Mess
Gursha On the Intimacy + Discomfort of Feeding Another Human
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On Social + Community Issues:
A Tale of Two Supermarkets How Can Two Smith's Supermarkets, Three Miles Apart, Be So Different? Or Are They?
Poverty Brain The Death of the Frontal Cortex
Charity Dissecting the Monster Who Might Be Helping Us + Also Sucking Us Dry
The Market Is the Anti-Hunger Community Broken?
Thoughtful Food On the Loss of SNAP money + How that Shapes the Food We Choose to Eat
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On Mothers Fighting for Their Kids in the Child Welfare System :
Separation On Medical Neglect + The Unnecessary Break Up of Families
Worthiness On the Use of a Young Woman’s Body.
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Kitchen Supper Recipes:
Kitchen Suppers are super-casual, easy-to-do meals that you can serve to have people over. Not a dinner party, the food is delicious and wholesome, but the point is no stress, time to sit and enjoy old and new friends + invite your community in.