Anna Lappé Founder, Small Planet Institute Founder/Director, Real Food Media As a child, Anna Lappé accompanied her mother, Frances, an author on world hunger, on a research trip to Guatemala. Standing on a hill that overlooked a town, Lappé noticed several large haciendas among the masses of tiny shacks and homes. She asked her mom, […]
I am thrilled to share the wonderful news that I will be honored among this year’s James Beard Leadership Award winners! This is a particularly significant honor because of my respect for previous award winners and this year’s other honorees including Greg Asbed and Lucas Benitez of the Coalition of Immokalee Workers, Raj Patel, Rep. […]
Find the full Behind the Plate interview with Anna on Foodstand where she talks about the beginning of a lifelong passion for creating a more equitable food system, the absence of food issues in the current presidential campaign and the food inspirations she finds in and out of her home. Tell us about how you got your start as […]
When asked to picture a typical school lunch, most of us think of sad-looking chicken nuggets or soggy french fries. For many of the millions of public school students, that’s not far off mark. To transform what’s on kids’ plates, parents, teachers and administrators have been working for years, battling entrenched industry interests and paltry […]
May 2, 2016 CONTACT: Christina Bronsing-Lazalde Director of Programs + Partnerships Real Food Media christina@realfoodmedia.org 773 808 6737 REAL FOOD MEDIA ANNOUNCES WINNERS OF 2016 FOOD AND FARMING SHORT FILM COMPETITION AWARD-WINNING FILMS THAT STIR HEARTS, MINDS – AND ACTION – FOR A BETTER FOOD SYSTEM SAN FRANCISCO — May 2, 2016 — A […]
by Anna Lappé for Al Jazeera America At the turn of the last century, the father of public relations, Edward Bernays, launched the Celiac Project, whose medical professionals recommended bananas to benefit celiac disease sufferers. Those pitched on the sweet fruit’s miraculous properties didn’t know the project was actually created for the United Fruit Co., […]
Today, my colleagues Kari Hamerschlag, Stacy Malkan and I are excited to share our new report: Spinning Food. Our findings are stunning (but probably won’t surprise you): The industrial food sector has spent hundreds of millions of dollars over the past few years on stealth PR tactics and deployed over a dozen front groups to push […]
by Anna Lappé for Edible Feast BERKELEY, CA—On a foggy hillside in the state of Hidalgo, Mexico, farmers prepare a traditional goat dish in a fire pit—and add plenty of oregano. The spice is the heart of this small-scale cooperative’s business that grows the sturdy herb for sale in Mexico and beyond. “In my own […]
by Anna Lappé for Huffington Post Last fall, when I launched the first-ever Real Food Media short films contest with project partners around the country, I didn’t know what I was getting myself into. I just knew that there were incredible stories of people farming, growing, cooking, and sharing food as well as fighting […]