Food & Society at the Aspen Institute brings together public health leaders, policymakers, researchers, farmers, chefs, food makers, and entrepreneurs to find practical solutions to food system challenges and inequities. The goal is to help people of all income levels eat better and more healthful diets – and identify and nourish the leaders from all realms who will help them do that.
Spotlight
Death, to Wendell Berry, was an old familiar–if not exactly a friend, a constant, comforting companion. In his wonderful novel Jayber Crow, the narrator describes a friend coming up a path to the riverside he fitted to end his days, sociably planning to visit a while as his friends long did. This friend though, was long gone. Following him, the narrator comes to a porch populated with his closest friends from the life he had built for himself as a barber and friend to all in Port William, the lightly fictionalized version of Berry’s native Port Royal. “I knew where I was,” he tells the reader.
