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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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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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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by SFUSA Program Director Makalé Faber Cullen
The names alone can bring a smile to your face. In today’s New York Times, Kim Severson rolls out descriptions of RAFT, and our country’s food heritage, like little pearls of food wisdom.
Industrial farming, which selects for shipability, is the cause of the loss of 93% of our food […]

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The New York Times has been running an excellent series of articles called “The Food Chain: A Moveable Feast,” the latest of which ran this past Saturday.  In the paper edition it was called “Would You Like Some Carbon with your Kiwi?” (um, no thank you), and it discusses the EU’s plan to tax fuel […]

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Why should you plant a garden?
1. You’ll have lunch and dinner in minutes.  In the past week alone the NY Times has run two articles about the virtues of planting your own garden.  First up was the article about Kitchen Gardeners International (whom we wrote about earlier this year), and a short history of the […]

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A few weeks ago we began to explore the intersections of art and agriculture while reflecting on “Slow Design.”  Today we pick up that thread again to discuss Edible Estates: Attack on the Front Lawn, the book portion of an art project by Fritz Haeg.
Haeg is an artist, trained as an architect, who likes to […]

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This list in The Chicago Tribune of “Food Movies that Deserve an Oscar,” from 2007, got us thinking.  With the exception of “Ratatouille,” by the way, they’re not really food movies, per se.  But the mention of food’s role in “The Bucket List” — a movie about two guys doing all the things they’ve dreamed […]

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Your first reading assignment for 2008, should you be looking for one: Michael Pollan’s newest: In Defense of Food: an Eater’s Manifesto. Pollan, a Slow Food USA Advisory Board member, felt compelled after The Omnivore’s Dilemma to give his readers a how-to manual. In short: Eat food. Not too much. Mostly plants. […]

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People are a-buzz about Oxford University Press’ selection of “locavore” as its word of the year (having beat out several words some of us may never have heard of– “bacn,” anyone?).
It’s interesting to think about buzz and how it helps or hinders an idea or movement. If a word is chosen as […]

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