Book + Supper Club with Nancy Matsumoto

Nancy Matsumoto is an award-winning freelance writer and editor who writes about agroecology, food sovereignty, food, drink, and Japanese American culture and history. Her latest book, Reaping What She Sows: How Women Are Rebuilding Our Broken Food System (Melville House Publishing, 2025), tells the stories of women changemakers who are forging shorter, more direct, and more transparent "alternative" food supply chains compared to the long, extractive, and exploitative chains controlled by Big Food and Big Agriculture. 

A third-generation Japanese American and holder of three sake certifications, she is the co-author of the James Beard award-winning Exploring the World of Japanese Craft Sake (Tuttle Publishing, 2022). Nancy’s Substack publication “Reaping” continues to tell stories of the people, institutions, and businesses leading ecosystems regeneration. As a journalist, she has been a contributor to The Wall Street Journal, Time, Newsweek, TheAtlantic.com, People, Food & Wine, Saveur, The Los Angeles Times, Civil Eats, NPR, The Toronto Globe and Mail, and Air Canada enRoute Magazine, among other publications.