Daniel Klein is a chef, activist, and filmmaker living in Minneapolis. He has cooked in the restaurants of Thomas Keller, Heston Blumenthal, and Tom Colicchio. For his current project, Daniel has been documenting his culinary, agricultural and hunting explorations on film in a web series called The Perennial Plate. Every week he covers a diverse set of sustainable stories from squirrel hunting to community gardens. Follow him on Twitter @perennialplate or Facebook.
We recently came back from five weeks of filming in India and Sri Lanka. We spent a lot of time researching story ideas, but one topic we knew we wanted to cover was seed saving and farmer suicides in India. In case you aren’t familiar, there have been over 270,000 farmer suicides in the country over the last 15 years (most are cotton farmers). There are many theories about what circumstances have led to this rash of deaths, but for Dr. Vandana Shiva, the reasons are clear: GMOs. Read more
My partner and I have had the amazing pleasure of taking our documentary series about sustainable food around the world. We posted our announcement here on Civil Eats a few months back, but now we’ve actually had a chance to hit the road and wanted to share one of our recent highlights with you.
Our first trip was to Japan, where we (among other things) visited the restaurant of Tetsuo Shimizu. Read more
Last time we checked in with Civil Eats, we had just finished up an epic road trip around the U.S., documenting good food stories across the country. At the time, we didn’t think our job could get much better. Well…it has. Starting in September, my partner Mirra and I will be traveling around the world, telling similar stories, only with an international perspective. Read more
On May 9, 2011, my girlfriend and I set out from Minneapolis on a road trip across the country. The journey was not for sightseeing, instead we were on a mission: To tell stories about “real food” in America. From that moment on, every week for a year, we released a 5-10-minute video about sustainable food across the country for our online documentary series, The Perennial Plate. The last video from our road trip was recently released.
We haven’t just been profiling young farmers and back-to-the-landers, we have been engaging with folks who went organic because they had gotten sick from conventional food, or fished and hunted because it was their only option. Our broad scope of stories let us encounter every type of American that was in search of good food.
Along the way, we found no shortage of people to film. Upon our departure we called out to the interweb for ideas and were flooded with stories from across the nation. Armed with this catalogue and our own interests in experiencing the inspiring and the unique, we set off. Read more
In the event of a nuclear disaster, zombies taking over the planet, or industrial food collapse, you’d want to be friends with the subject of our latest film. It’s a meditation on survival and the beauty of doing things that are no longer necessary, but still worth doing. It takes place on a fall day in Andalusia, Alabama where we (The Perennial Plate crew) collected invasive Corbicula Clams with Jimmy and Sierra Stiles. After wading in the river looking for the creatures, we cooked them over a fire… made by hand. Watch: Read more
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