Nancy Matsumoto, REAPING WHAT SHE SOWS

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James Beard Award winner, Nancy Matsumoto, celebrates the women heroes who are fighting Big Food to create a healthier, more just system—and answering the question: How should we eat?
When the Covid-19 pandemic ripped through global food supply chains, it threatened the livelihoods of farmers, created shortages in supermarkets, and revealed a startling truth to consumers: our globalized, industrial food system is broken. Today’s tariff wars only underscore the need for change, and a bold idea that is taking hold: what if we return to a time when our needs were met by producers in our own communities, to a food system that prioritizes the health of our families, our communities, a planet over profit-at-all-costs ethos? Yet not just a nostalgic return to the past, but a grafting of the best modern agricultural and environmental practices onto community-based food systems.

Nancy Matsumoto is an award-winning freelance writer and editor who specializes in the areas of regenerative agriculture, food, sake, arts and culture. She has been a contributor to The Wall Street Journal, Time, Newsweek, TheAtlantic.com, People, Food & Wine, Saveur, The Los Angeles Times, Civil Eats, NPR, The Toronto Globe and Mail, and Air Canada enRoute Magazine, among other publications. A holder of three sake certifications, her book Exploring the World of Japanese Craft Sake: Rice, Water, Earth, co-written with Michael Tremblay, won a James Beard award. Learn more.

opened Egg in Williamsburg, Brooklyn, in 2005 and operates Goatfell Farm in New York’s Hudson Valley. Weld is also a writer and contributor to Edible magazine.

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