We're admittedly a bit late to the table on this on The Perennial Plate, a weekly web series documenting a foodie couple's adventures in sustainable eating. It's downright delicious. For "A Taste of Vietnam," TPP's Daniel Klein and Mirra Find ate their way through the Southeast Asian country for two weeks, exploring the hidden corners of Vietnamese cuisine. The fast-paced clip......read more
For "An American Food Trip," another instalment in the excellent Perennial Plate series about sustainable eating, filmmaker Daniel Klein and his team travelled 23,000 miles across 42 states to tell the stories of "Real Food in America." The resulting clip, cobbled together from seven terrabytes of footage, offers a fast-moving and fascinating glimpse at food culture all over the States. As......read more
After graduating from an urban university and gaining some experience working in the city, Lifen Yang succumbed to the magnetic pull of her rural homeland near Kumming, in China's Yunnan province. Returning home, she applied her business know-how to launching her own restaurant. Sourcing organic produce from her parents' farm, Yang promotes healthy, sustainable food practices in the area. In "The......read more
Here's a new instalment from The Perennial Plate, everyone's favorite food adventurers. A Spanish Road Trip finds them in--you guessed it--Spain, where the gastro-wanderers spent two weeks travelling from Basque Country to Galicia, Andalucia, and finally Barcelona. Then they edited down the footage to three minutes (much of it in diptych style) of pure goodness, soundtracked by a pretty......read more
It's no secret that Italians know how to eat right, and while an amazing food culture is by no means the only thing the country has to offer, it is surely one of the highlights. The intrepid foodies at The Perennial Plate celebrate the great things about Italian food culture with "Ten Things We Love About Italy," an episode shot while traveling through the country. Different regions produce......read more
In another instalment of The Perennial Plate made possible by Intrepid Travel, the globe-trotting foodies find themselves in Marche, Italy, joining the locals in the hunt for one of the world's greatest culinary treasures: Truffles. The chase for the earthy delight involves two people (the hunter and the dealer) and a dog. The dog plays a starring role in this clip, as they hunt for the Biancetto......read more
Daniel Klein and Mirra Fine back at it again with another episode of our favorite food and travel series, the Perennial Plate. The new clip is a fast-paced, one-minute summary of two weeks in Mexico, and it doesn't disappoint. Covering ground from Mexico City to Hidalgo, Oaxaca to Chiapas, the traveling gourmands ate more more beans, bebidas and tamales than you can shake a stick at. A......read more
Twilight Greenaway for Civil Eats: In the quest to shave off distance from field to plate, today’s chefs and restaurants have devised a range of creative solutions–from growing tomatoes on their own rooftops to sourcing fruit from their customers’ backyards. The Perennial, a soon-to-open San Francisco eatery, plans to take the business of local sourcing several steps......read more
We've made no secret of our love for the work of Randy P. Martin, the Portland, OR-based photographer who has a distinct knack for capturing breathtaking travel images on film. His preferred subjects are small figures in huge sweeping landscapes, a nod to the Romantic notion of man's smallness in the face of nature's immensity. This latest selection, shot in locations as diverse as Oregon,......read more
In the latest episode of The Perennial Plate, series creators Daniel Klein and Mirra Fine travel to East Asia, where urban farming is beginning to take hold on empty rooftops. The clip introduces us to Osbert Lam at City Farm in Hong Kong and Guichun Zhang in Beijing, each of whom have created rooftop garden oases in their respective cities. In both cases, it seems like the motives......read more