Mindful Dining Part Two: Produce
The Growing Art of Growing.
In the first installment of Mindful Dining (Mindful Dining Part One: Proteins, Arbus Jan/February 2016) we asked an esteemed group of local chefs and restauranteurs who espouse the slow food, farm-to-table movement about how they source and use proteins – meat, poultry, eggs and dairy. So, now we will hear from this same group on the backbone, er, base, of the meal – produce and grains. We asked them about their sourcing, growing, and use of these items on their menus, and asked them, along with specialty growers, what trends they see and predict for food and farming.
MarCom Q&A
Arbus Magazine asked Marcom leaders: What is emerging as the biggest trend with your clients in this day and age?
Any Given Child Jacksonville
Moving Ahead with The Arts Q & A with Any Given Child Jacksonville’s executive director, Allison Galloway A unique collection of committed individuals has been working behind the scenes, planning and plotting – striving to provide greater, more equitable access to quality arts education in Duval County. The group, known as the Community Arts Team, or CAT, came together when Jacksonville was chosen by the John F. Kennedy...
Publisher’s Note
We encourage you to “shop local” this holiday season: to support Jacksonville and the Beaches’ terrific locally owned businesses that make up the identity of our communities. Spend $100 in a chain store and only $14 goes back into the local economy. But spend $100 at a locally owned business and $45 goes back – so shopping at local businesses is a bonus for your community. In this issue, we bring you twenty pages filled with gifting ideas from some of our area’s best locally-owned businesses.
A Love Song for My Mother.
My mom will tell you I never write about her. I’ve got poems, plays and stories about other family members, but nothing like that about her.
Asked & Answered
Ben’h Usry enters art history Walking into artist Ben’h Usry’s Riverside home, one is confronted with a few highlights from a lifetime of artwork. The dining room glows because of the wall-sized gold-leaf monochrome painting leaning against the east wall, while the living room has excerpts from Usry’s newer Florida Water Series stacked about, and also his American Icon suite—bacon and eggs as symbols of American ideals. His is a home...