Two Sundays ago, I went to City Hall Park for a free meal offered by Food Not Bombs. In Orlando, Fla., this organization is currently at the center of a battle over public space; the city’s mayor, Buddy Dyer, has been quoted as calling its members “food terrorists.” Since June, Orlando police have arrested more than two dozen members of FNB as they fed the hungry in Lake Eola Park, on the grounds that they run afoul of a law that requires permits for serving food in public spaces and caps those permits at two per year.... Read more

A recent advertisement for a Wild Edibles event at the Farmhouse Tap & Grill caught my eye. I had never before been dared by a restaurant to eat “heads, feet and tongues” or “various marine cephalopods.” Yet every time the staff at the Farmhouse plays with the food, customers seem to eat it up. This seemed as good a time as any to find out why.... Read more

One of the quintessential sounds of summer is the clinking of cubes inside a tall, glass of bracing iced coffee. Recently, when the sun finally appeared and Vermonters actually broke a sweat, some readers clamored via Twitter for a Seven Days survey of local brews. The sizable number of staffers who fuel their workdays with cold java happily agreed to sample the options. ... Read more