School Food

In a remote Sicilian mountain town, four women arrive at a cookery school, each at a turning point in their lives. Moll is a foodie and an exhausted working mum on the holiday of a lifetime. Tricia, a top London lawyer, is taking a break from the demands of her job and her family. Valerie, consumed by grief following the death of her partner, is trying to figure out how to live a life without him. And recently divorced Poppy has come to Sicily to learn about the place where her grandfather was born before emigrating to Australia.

Maharaj reconnects food with health, wellness, education, and rehabilitation in a way that serves people, not just budgets, and provides a blueprint for reclaiming control from corporations and brutal bottom lines.

Treehouse branches are a series of horror stories told by a witch to kids whose lives are in great need of fun. A witch who is super beautiful to them all, with a mole on her nose. Her true appearance only shows in the sunlight, for which she looks like the town's old widow lady of anger and heartbreak. She finds joy in her little friends only.

In 1779, to subjugate Indigenous nations, George Washington ordered his troops to “ruin their crops now in the ground and prevent their planting more.” Destroying harvests is just one way that the United States has used food as a political tool. Trying to prevent enslaved people from rising up, enslavers restricted their consumption, providing only enough to fuel labor. Since the Great Depression, school lunches have served as dumping grounds for unwanted agricultural surpluses.