Did “Wild, Wild Country” Leave You Hungry for More?
Netflix Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Netflix’s new documentary series Wild, Wild, Country is a fascinating tale of the Rajneesh movement’s time in rural Oregon. A spiritual organization with its roots in India, the Rajneeshees moved to, and eventually took over, Antelope, a hamlet about 3 hours away from Portland.…
Happy Mother’s Day! Please Enjoy These Stories About Moms, Daughters, and Food
Aimee Lee Ball and her mother.Courtesy Aimee Lee Ball Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Recipes passed down through generations, Mother’s Day breakfasts in bed—these are some of the ways that food can bring a family together. But Aimee Lee Ball knows that there are other stories to be told: about…
You Can Be a Powerful Feminist and Love to Bake Pie
Mother Jones illustration Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Cecile Richards is not a woman who messes around—she’s best known as outgoing president of Planned Parenthood, her time as deputy chief of staff to Rep. Nancy Pelosi, and her work for her mother Ann Richards’ campaign for governor of Texas. What’s less…
The Edibles Market Is Exploding. You Can Bet Big Corporations Are Watching.
Edibles on display at a California marijuana dispensary Brian Cahn/ZUMA Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. In America, pot is what’s hot. So far, nine states—California, Colorado, Washington, Oregon, Nevada, Maine, Massachusetts, Alaska, Vermont—and Washington D.C. have legalized recreational, adult-use weed. Meanwhile, venture capitalists are pumping the industry with cash; college students…
Has #MeToo Changed Your Relationship With Restaurants?
Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Mother Jones is exploring how #MeToo is affecting the culinary world for an upcoming episode of Bite, our food politics podcast—and we want to hear from you. In the past few months, accusations of sexual misconduct have emerged at major restaurants across the country, leaving customers…
Don’t Call It Pot: My Dinner With San Francisco’s Cannabis Gourmets
Chron Vivant Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. San Francisco’s first ever Thursday Infused, a “gourmet series for the canna-curious,” begins at 6:30pm one evening in March. I’m greeted at the door of a handsome purple Victorian house by Jamie Evans, a willowy blonde in a yellow silk dress who organizes…