(article, Culinate staff)
Regular Culinate contributor Twilight Greenaway has a new gig as Grist's food editor. Her food-politics reporting so far has included stories on the agricultural exploitation of teenage workers, the dirty secrets of the organic-strawberry industry, and the importance of farmland conservation. Most inspiring might be her article about converting shipping containers into grocery stores. The idea is a blend of a mobile mart and a permanent grocery: you can put one pretty much anywhere, and operate it as long as you want. The prototype — put up by Stockbox Grocers — opened recently in Seattle. Will a new kind of mini-mart be opening soon in a parking lot near you? Stay tuned.