Diana Silva aka Molé Mama with her Mama Rose. - Diana Silva comes from a line of brave, resilient women. Her grandmother, a Mexican immigrant, and Diana's mother built lives for themselves and the people they loved by working on California farms.

Diana Silva created and produces Molé Mama, a multi-media platform all about connecting with food and with family. Molé Mama qualifies as a Food Disruptor because she offers an accessible means for stepping out of the powerful currents of our industria...

Many of us grew up with a well-worn cookbook close at hand in the kitchen. In my case, it was my mom's Betty Crocker Cookbook, full of 1960s quick-and-easy family-favorite recipes with lots of highly processed ingredients.

Ellen Swallow Richards, 1842-1911, a brilliant chemist and progressive leader, founded the home economics movement.  Home economics 140 years ago was not the prosaic domain of bored middle-school girls, but rather a powerful engine of social change,

Johannes Olejnik spent three years figuring out the logistics of turning tiny seedlings, the product of tissue-culture micro-propagation, into thriving hazelnut orchards that generate supplemental income for rural farming families in Bhutan.

The United States lacks a coherent policy for shaping our food system. The 2019 Farm Bill proves this. A national food policy should ensure an adequate, safe, and sustainable food supply. It should support biodiversity as well as soil, water,

The Post saga is a linchpin story in American culinary history. Post failed again and again in business, but somehow scratched together enough money time and again to launch a new enterprise. - His restless,

C.W. Post (1854-1914) remains a slippery figure in U.S. culinary history. At age 37, he presented at the Battle Creek Sanitarium as a manic-depressive, chronically ill business failure so feeble and emaciated he had to be carried in on a stretcher.

Tastemakers may be the most powerful drivers of change in our food system. It's hard to imagine in our digitized world, but in living memory the influencers of American culture came to us via the written word, in print media. -

All those good, old saws about the right and best way to live -- "Waste not want not," "Necessity is the mother of invention," "You reap what you sow," etc. -- might have sprouted from the earth of the family farm.