Though my family has been in Chicago for four generations, I only recently moved here. Food for me is both vocation and avocation. Along with my volunteer work with Slow Food and the Chicago Food Policy Advisory Council, I work in the kitchen at the Jane Addams Hull-House, for Mint Creek and Blue Marble farms, and for Rishi Tea. While we are unquestionably what we eat, I believe we are also how we eat and with whom we eat, and that these values are inextricably linked with how (and how well) we live.