Stories
The Convergence of Art & Science
This summer while in Maine, I changed my running route to head south instead of north along our rocky coastline. Early morning, just after a short espresso and a skim of news headlines and some spiritual reflection time. Out the door, a mix of walking hills and...
Owls Head, 100-year birthday party
Country roads can take you home to where you belong and recently, the residents of Owls Head had a homecoming of their own to celebrate 100 years of this town. Locked up in their homes during the pandemic, scattered by the constraints of mask mandates, the partygoers...
The Art of Cheese
Have you ever done a live cheese tasting through Zoom? 🧀🧐 Since I’ve been working on my upcoming documentary related to cheese, Shelf Life, I’ve had many opportunities to partake in some (tasty) research for the film. And one piece of my research included a live...
A Runner’s High
Remember the crisp feeling of a paper map in your hands? With GPS apps readily at our fingertips, paper maps are needed less often, though maps in the form of artwork are still quite popular. Maybe the colors are easy on the eye, or an artist got creative by...
Circles, Cycles, and Cartoons
Last week a color photograph fell out of a book in Maine that showed my family, sitting in the sun on wooden chairs around a hotel pool in Antigua Guatemala in the ‘70s, a dormant volcano in the background - just like this photo. Today I work with a university in...
What are “Smell Maps”? And other interesting finds
Summer is in full bloom here in Maine and I'd like to share a view from my window (at night) and much more in this issue of my next Substack newsletter - out today! In this month’s release, we dive into the nostalgia of vintage foods, how one designer creates...
Are We Done Belonging?
One of my film projects has to do with cheese, which, naturally, includes plenty of cheese tastings for research. Eating cheese for work? Sign me up! you might be thinking...but you may be surprised to hear that this is both a blessing and a curse. How? Cheese...
Books, Movies, and Much More
A list of things I currently find interesting. Read more about this experience in the latest issue of my Substack newsletter, out today: https://robynmetcalfe.substack.com/subscribe Members get access to exclusive fresh content, all previous newsletters, and community...
How Brexit May Change What People Eat
While politicians argue over Brexit, regular people living in Britain wonder what foods they’ll have access to after the dust settles. Depending upon how long it takes to implement a plan for feeding Britain post-Brexit, the ingredients that become available will...
Our Food Supply Chain Has Been Tested Before. We Adapted.
By mid-February, we watched our food supply become headline news. Worries about toilet paper shortages quickly shifted to whether we’d ever enjoy pasta again, not to mention whether we’d enjoy that meal in the presence of our loved ones. Just a few months before, we...