MAD and the Future of Hope – Sadza

MAD and the Future of Hope – Sadza

Chido Govera came to MAD 2 in 2012 to tell her story of how she became a farmer and activist in her home country, Zimbabwe. MAD has been collaborating with Chido and her growing Future of Hope Foundation in Harare to turn ideas into empowerment for women, girls, and...
MAD and the Future of Hope: Oyster Mushrooms

MAD and the Future of Hope: Oyster Mushrooms

Chido Govera came to MAD 2 in 2012 to tell her story of how she became a farmer and activist in her home country, Zimbabwe. MAD has been collaborating with Chido and her growing Future of Hope Foundation in Harare to turn ideas into empowerment for women, girls, and...
MAD and the Future of Hope

MAD and the Future of Hope

Chido Govera is changing the way we think about food, empowerment, and collaboration.   Almost four years ago Zimbabwean campaigner, educator, activist, and farmer Chido Govera came to Copenhagen to speak at MAD 2: “What Gives me the Appetite to be the Person...
Culture of the Kitchen: Wylie Dufresne

Culture of the Kitchen: Wylie Dufresne

When it comes to managing a kitchen, I like to think of the myth of Sisyphus. There are people who like pushing that rock up that hill the hard way. There are people who are helped along by coaching, who will get that rock higher up the hill when someone’s yelling Go!...
Ask the Doc #2: Scotch, Bogs, Smoke, and You

Ask the Doc #2: Scotch, Bogs, Smoke, and You

Arielle Johnson, MAD head of Research, has a PhD in flavor chemistry. She is our expert on all things experimental in the MAD Lab, our chief investigator of food, flavor and fermentation. From here on out, she will be running this advice column—consider it an “Office...
Culture of the Kitchen: Jason Hammel

Culture of the Kitchen: Jason Hammel

What does it mean for René Redzepi to say, as he did in his “Fantasies of a Happier Kitchen,” that cooking has been lifted “out of the blue collar?” It means that if we talk about the future of the kitchen, we need to have a hard talk about money. Food you make and...