by Ben Carmichael | Oct 27, 2010 | Featured
Jonathan Safron Foer Eating Animals Little Brown, 2009 341 Pages £18.99 ISBN 978-0241144251 When Jonathan Safran Foer’s grandmother cooked chicken, he and his brothers would regularly interrupt the meal to say, “You are the greatest chef who ever lived”. Never mind...
by Ben Carmichael | Oct 27, 2010 | Environment, Featured
Imagine, if you will, a story. In this story most of the characters are mute. The threats are abstract, the timeline long, the stakes high and the consequences still uncertain. Politics are present, and so, too, are heaps of money. There are enemies, but no...
by Ben Carmichael | Oct 27, 2010 | Environment, Featured, Fishing
This is a story of stories. It is about one night on a river. It is a story about listening, about healing and about nature. This story is the reason I am here, now, talking to you. A few weeks ago, I drove with my father up to the Catskill Mountains in northwest New...
by Ben Carmichael | Oct 27, 2010 | Environment, Featured, Fishing
I grew up chasing trout and salmon across the American northeast. From New York to Maine to Canada, the water has always run cold, the pressure ever steady against my legs. Over the past twenty years, the conditions of my fishing have fluctuated with the weather. Some...
by Ben Carmichael | Oct 26, 2010 | Environment, Featured, Fishing
The way I tell the story, the day my father removed my last diaper he placed a fly rod in my hands. Since then, I’ve cast a line over nearly any open body of water I can find. He nurtured an avid fly fisherman, sure, but also an avid environmentalist. And so I...
