Welcome back to Inspired By…, Tostada Magazine’s occasional series where we interview the artists, innovators, and leaders who are working to create change in our communities. Each dispatch, we aim to chat…
Taco Showdown: Detroit taqueros deserve better in local food journalism
I couldn’t shake this nagging question in my mind the other day: Do these people know ANYTHING about Mexican food? The setting, the inaugural Taco Showdown held late last month at Eastern…
Inspired By… Shane Bernardo on food justice, water as life & community resilience
Welcome back to Inspired By…, Tostada Magazine’s occasional series where we interview the artists, innovators, and leaders who are working to create change in our communities. Each dispatch, we aim to…
What This Food Critic Meant to Those Who Make Cities
Editor’s note: This article originally appears in Next City, a nonprofit organization with a mission to inspire social, economic and environmental change in cities through journalism and events around the world. Tostada…
These Detroiters are building community and access around plant-based eating
Veganism in black and brown communities isn’t just about smiling in overpriced yoga pants while sharing images of brightly colored smoothie bowls and dressed up salads for the Gram. It’s a matter…
Chef Maxcel Hardy ceases weekday dining at River Bistro, opens Coop in Midtown
When “chef to the stars” Maxcel Hardy opened the doors of his Rosedale Park eatery River Bistro just short of a year ago, he was aiming to offer residents of the community…
What could equitable development look like in Detroit’s food movement?
After a winter that felt like it would never end, it finally warmed up long enough to feel good about venturing outdoors one evening in May. With that opening into spring, I…
Author Von Diaz shows us the healing power of cookbooks
Seated quietly inside Pages Bookshop in Detroit’s Grandmont Rosedale neighborhood, a small gathering listened intently as Von Diaz read in agonizing detail from a passage in her newly-released cookbook Coconuts and Collards the heartbreak…
AMC Dream Café: Cultivating Collaboration
When asked to describe everything that goes on at the Allied Media Conference (AMC), organizers liken it to an ecosystem. It’s a multi-layered laboratory of organizers, media-makers and youth gathering around the…
You’re visiting Detroit, here are our top food destinations by neighborhood
You’ve been planning your visit to Detroit for months. Plane tickets purchased, hotel room booked or a friend’s couch reserved. You’ve been reading about the many changes, for better or worse, taking…