For the first time since Slow Food USA was founded in 2000, we are restructuring our membership rates. But we can’t do it alone, so we are asking our trusted members to give us feedback on their experience with Slow Food.
Please take part in our 2008 Membership Survey.  Why, you ask?  Well…

Your input will shape […]

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Last December we interviewed Robert LaValva about his efforts to keep NYC’s former Fulton Fish Market a public market for New Yorkers.  Decembers’ market went off without a hitch; despite snow and sleet and toe-chilling temperatures, New Yorkers came out in droves to buy wild foraged edibles from Vermont, sample local cheeses, taste New Jersey […]

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As we’ve discussed on this blog many times before, seafood stocks around the world are in trouble for a host of reasons, including overfishing, pollution, etc.  Oftentimes chefs, consumers, and home cooks want to do the right thing, but don’t know how.
Chefs Collaborative is a member-based organization that works collectively to support the use of […]

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Slow Food USA’s Online Auction! 
There are only 3 days left to bid on this year’s exciting list of donated items. On Thursday, June 26th at 3pm EST Slow Food USA’s Online Auction will come to a close.
We’re auctioning off a wonderful wood-fired oven from Los Angeles Ovenworks, a pair of VIP tickets to any […]

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Two interesting articles that highlight the ways in which the poor are being hit by escalating food prices–their pocketbooks, and their reputations.
1. This one from the NY Times, which discusses how food stamps aren’t going as far.
2. This one from Foreign Policy.com, which discusses how, in conversations about how meat eating in poor countries such […]

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As recently as nine months or so ago, we used to talk about “the true cost of food,” hoping that Americans could begin to understand that the ultra-cheap food as fuel they were eating was priced un-naturally low, that farmers and farmworkers were paying the price, and hoping that people could/would learn how to pay […]

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by Slow Food USA intern Sara Hoffman 

Yesterday in the New York Times, Dan Koeppel, the author of Banana: The Fate of the Fruit that Changed the World (which will be reviewed in the upcoming Snail), published an opinion piece about the homogenization and industrialization of the banana.
It’s a good reminder of the deceptive economic, social, […]

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Iowa experienced the flood of the century 15 years ago. That, of course, was a different century.
Over the last week Iowans have seen floods unlike any in living memory. 1400 city blocks in Cedar Rapids were inundated with water up to 11 feet deep. 16 University of Iowa buildings were flooded. Interstates 80 […]

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It’s that time of year again… Slow Food USA is pleased to announce that the 4th Annual Online Auction is now LIVE! Visit the Slow Food USA auction web page for a complete listing of all of this year’s items up for grabs.
You can search all available items, place your […]

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Everywhere you turn it’s bad news about food: tomato scares, bad harvests,  peak oil and the global food crisis.
It’s hard not to feel demoralized and/or scared.  As we head into this summer weekend, we’d love to hear some good news.  Call us cock-eyed optimists, call us rose-colored glasses wearers.  Call us crazy, if you must.  […]

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