by Slow Food USA staffer Julia De Martini Day 
Last friday afternoon I volunteered for the first time with Harvest Time in Harlem, a Slow Food in Schools program facilitated by Slow Food NYC member and Slow Food USA Convivium Coordinator Yuri Asano.  The session’s focus was sustainability and  part of our activity involved cutting micro-greens […]

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If you’ve been in a hospital recently, whether as a patient or as a visitor, you know that the saddest thing in there might be the food. Maybe you’ve even wondered: how can they serve this junk in a hospital? The staff nutritionists will meet with patients and tell them to eat fresh fruits […]

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Today we’ve got an interview with Josh Hahn, whose company, Stone Bridge, advises schools on how to address sustainability and how their physical campuses can become integral components of this curricular mission.
We here at SFUSA first met you through you involvement with the Lawrenceville School, a private boarding school in New Jersey.  They have an […]

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An exciting update for those of you who have been following the fight (both in the news and here on our blog)  between the Coalition of Immokalee Workers and Burger King: Burger King has finally agreed to the 1.5 cents a pound increase on the price it will pay for tomatoes.  A penny per pound […]

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Slow Food USA has begun an exciting partnership with online food locater LocalHarvest.  Local Harvest is an easy-to-use site that helps consumers all over the country find the sustainable food in their area–that means farmers’ markets, family farms, CSAs, retailers who sell free range poultry,  grass-fed beef purveyors, etc.  Now, for the first time ever, […]

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by Slow Food USA staffer Julia De Martini Day 

Our beloved Snail seems to have a new (or long lost) friend in the Slug. This morning on NPR, car-pooling commuters – aka slugs – were interviewed about why they choose to find rides with strangers to speed their trips to work up rather than drive […]

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Sunday’s NY Times article about how much food gets thrown out in this country was notable both because of its thesis–perhaps now that food prices and food scarcity are on the rise, people will be ready to engage in a conversation about reducing food waste–but also for its picture.
Were we the only ones who noticed […]

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“Leave our agricultural future to chefs and anyone who takes food and cooking seriously. We never bought into the “bigger is better” mantra, not because it left us too dependent on oil, but because it never produced anything really good to eat. Truly great cooking — not faddish 1.5-pound rib-eye steaks with butter sauce, but […]

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If there’s a food producer in your life/community who you think is doing innovative work in sustainable agriculture and whom you think has been a leader in supporting their regional food system,  consider nominating him or her for the 6th Annual Glynwood Harvest Award.

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The Board of Slow Food USA is seeking to fill a new staff position at SFUSA, that of President. The complete posting can be found here, after the jump, as well as on other job sites such as idealist.org. Please read and pass on to anyone you think fits the bill.
Slow Food USA […]

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