Eating Healthy in Hungary

Posted by on Jun 11, 2014 in Blog, Eastern Europe, Featured, Uncategorized | 0 comments It wasn’t particularly easy to find vegetarian cooking in Hungary when I was there in 1990. This was the land of goulash and chicken paprikas, after all. And forget about organic produce. In those days, even in the United States, organic agriculture and organic products were a decidedly niche market. When the International Federation of Organic Agriculture Movements met for their 1990...
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Going Organic

Posted by on Feb 16, 2014 in Blog, Eastern Europe, Featured, Food, Uncategorized | 0 comments Ten years ago I visited Slovenia to do a report on organic farming for the Bay Area-based organization Food First. I was drawn to the former Yugoslav republic because it had recently joined with several neighboring Italian and Austrian provinces to create the world’s first organic bioregion – the Alpe-Adria. Organic farming made a lot of sense for Slovenia since its farms were relatively...
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Rebirth of the Countryside

Posted by on Jun 28, 2013 in Blog, Eastern Europe, Featured, Uncategorized | 0 comments Farming practically collapsed in East-Central Europe after 1989. First came the dissolution of the collective farms, then came the influx of agricultural products from the West, and finally came integration into the European Union. Although some countries didn’t have collective farms (Poland) and other countries have yet to join the EU (Serbia, Albania), the pattern of a sharp drop in...
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