We are lucky enough to have Poppy Tooker as one of our leaders and one of the vibrant and dynamic faces of Slow Food USA. Poppy, a New Orleanian, is the Chair of Ark of Taste Committee, and in addition to helping select which endangered foods make it onto the “Ark,” she is an […]

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by Jennifer M. Hall
SFUSA Ark Committee

When the RAFT (Renewing America’s Food Traditions) project offered seeds last winter, I was faced with decisions. What to grow? Trim the list from 40 dreams to 20 realities. Tomatillos leapt off the list in the top five. Always a fan of green salsa and pork chili […]

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This past weekend, Slow Food USA Executive Director Erika Lesser traveled to Bozeman Montana to give a keynote address at the Northern Rockies Satellite Bioneers conference.
The cornerstone of the main Bioneers conference which is held in San Rafael, CA, is an impressive lineup of plenary speakers who address issues of environmental sustainability and offer “practical […]

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The documentary film King Corn is now playing at a theatre near you, mostly to raucous approval, but one fellah in  Indiana  isn’t  as enthusiastic:
In 2003, the two men moved to Iowa and grew an acre of corn. They then followed that corn as it made its way through the food supply. What follows is […]

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Earlier this week, the USDA announced a Grassfed Marketing Claim Standard, one which they hoped would make things less confusing for consumers and hold producers to a more truthful, higher standard. They hope to eliminate the present issue of producers calling their meat “grassfed” when, in fact, it’s finished with grain–an extremely common practice.
Sounds […]

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Grist magazine, if you haven’t checked it out already, is a constant source of excellent writing, especially when it comes to food and agriculture. In the past week, they’ve produced a great piece by our own Slow Food leader and blog contributor Chef Kurt Friese, as well as an interview of Slow Food advisory […]

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Getting farm fresh fruits and vegetables to families in urban food deserts is no easy feat. It requires creative thinking, and usually a whole lot of gumption and perseverance from a few dedicated people. Last fall, on book tour with Carlo Petrini, a few of us saw first hand the farmers’ markets that […]

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by Samantha Taylor
As the weather (at last!) turns cool and the isle Manhattan forms a thick layer of sepia crunch beneath the feet of foodies eager to shift their palates to hearty fall fare, we uncover a NYC gastro-visionary taking seasonality to drastic (if not garish) heights.
Park Avenue _______, a restaurant whose very name […]

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There’s a new, worthy addition to the social action documentary genre, Ian Cheney and Curt Ellis’ “King Corn.” This is no fist-waving, rage-filled exposé; it quietly investigates what Michael Pollan made famous in The Omnivore’s Dilemma (and what Francis Moore Lappé also discussed years ago in Diet for a Small Planet): corn dominates our […]

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As my attention is drawn to them, I’ll make sure to post links to local convivium Slow Food blogs here.  The latest I’ve come across is for Southeast Michigan (that’s the Detroit/Ann Arbor area, for the geographically challenged folks out there).
Here’s a glimpse of their most recent post.
 I usually begin my Saturdays with a bike […]

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