Tag Archives: DIY

Belly-to-Belly Barter Mart & How Food Swaps Will Take over the World

By Vanessa | Published: April 19, 2011

I’m always fascinated by how ideas percolate up into the culture and become bona fide trends. An idea is sparked, acted upon, talked about…and suddenly everyone is doing it. The DIY trend is one example. While I was formulating the idea for DIY Delicious in early 2008, the social, economic, and political conditions that gave [...]

Posted in Current Affairs, DIY, Food and Drink, community, entertaining, pantry staples | Also tagged Barter Mart, Belly to Belly, food bartering, food swaps, Oakland, self reliance, skill sharing, trading, urban homesteading | 1 Comment

DIY Delicious Promo Video

By Vanessa | Published: August 11, 2010

Check out this super fun DIY Delicious Video. Shot and conceived by the talented folks at 4SP films. I love it! And it was so much fun to shoot! Thanks to Chronicle Books for making it possible and Peter Perez, Marketing Manager at Chronicle, for loaning his kitchen, community garden and slightly goofy (yet totally [...]

Posted in Books, DIY, Film, gardening, healthy, hearty | Also tagged Chronicle Books, Cooking videos, DIY Delicious, Vanessa Barrington | 2 Comments

A Really Underground Restaurant

By Vanessa | Published: August 6, 2010

The term “underground” as it relates to food had come to sound ridiculous. These days it’s code for places where droves of in-the-know people in a certain age range and from certain segments of the population gather to wait hours in line for homemade, DIY, fermented, foraged, bartered, guerilla gardened, dumpster plucked, or street vended [...]

Posted in DIY, Food and Drink, entertaining | Also tagged foraged food, local food, neighborhood food, underground food | 2 Comments

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