James Norton

Mar 13, 2024 | childrenandnature.org | James Norton

“Being in nature – it’s a luxury, right?”Paloma Cardoza, a child of immigrants, leveraged her educational background in habitat restoration to work with a major nature conservation nonprofit. But as she worked with suburban retirees in Minnesota, she found herself surrounded by older people with the resources to volunteer their time, while wishing that she could connect with people whose stories reflected her own.

Feb 14, 2024 | cgmagonline.com | Brendan Frye |James Norton |Lashana Lynch

If you were to ask any person who is the first person they think of when it comes to reggae music, it’s almost guaranteed the first person most will name is Bob Marley. Despite passing away at the young age of 36 back in 1981, he remains one of the most instantly recognizable figures in popular music and pop culture. A biopic about the man was always going to be a tough task from the outset.

Feb 5, 2024 | thecookbooktest.substack.com | Joan Harris |James Norton

Dear Readers,In some ways, finding myself writing about cookbooks every week while being squarely middle aged is kind of a surprise. I grew up obsessed with military history, politics, and espionage, and started my career editing Middle East news for an international newspaper. There was every indication I was gravitating toward the hard stuff. That was my trajectory. Then: something happened.

Feb 2, 2024 | heavytable.com | James Norton

In most years, Valentine’s Day is a little island of joy surrounded on all sides by a bleak white frozen wasteland; this year, it’s a little island of joy surrounded on all sides by a dry brown mostly thawed out wasteland. Either way, it’s a time to reboot, connect, and relax, and the local food scene likes to lean into it for marketing purposes, too.

Jan 15, 2024 | thecookbooktest.substack.com | Hasan Semay |James Norton

Dear Subscribers,If there is one gift that cooking and eating has given to me that I am more grateful for than anything else, it's the fact that it has made me feel so much more at home in the world. If I'm traveling in New Zealand, I can pop into an izakaya, scan the menu, try the things I haven't seen before, and connect to where I am, where I'm from, and a third place thousands of miles beyond that.