As we ramp up for the big event, there’s been lots of great coverage:
What to Do and Where to Eat:  Check out this handy highlight guide from 7×7.com.  The best part? The Greek-gods-of-good-and-plenty graphic featuring Carlo Petrini, Alice Waters, Gavin Newsome, Michael Pollan and Eric Schlosser.
Featured Products: Check out this article from the Fresno Bee […]

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by Slow Food USA staffer and blog editor, Jerusha Klemperer
Check out this thoughtful article from The American Conservative magazine. Its embrace of Slow Food may be surprising to some, but it’s a welcome addition to the conversation.
It reminds me of a lunchtime visitor we had a few weeks ago, a farmer from South […]

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Tickets for Slow Food Nation go on sale today! After a long lead up and lots of buzzing excitement, it’s finally here. For those of you who haven’t yet heard the news, Slow Food Nation will be the first-ever American collaborative gathering to unite the growing sustainable food movement and introduce thousands of people […]

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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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Some of you who are quite familiar with Slow Food and its programs, both national and international, have heard of Terra Madre (”mother earth” in Italian), and perhaps you’ve wondered how to participate.
Terra Madre is a large sustainable food producers conference held in Turin, Italy every two years. The next edition will be held […]

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The March, 2008 issue of Metropolis focuses on the overarching idea of localism and its relationship to sustainability.  It is, as always, a beautiful and well-written issue, but in it one particular columnist, Bruce Sterling, has taken Slow Food to task accusing us once again of that old canard, elitism.
Now while it is true that […]

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As the American Foreign Press reported on Monday, Carlo Petrini has rejected the French call for their gastronomy to be preserved on UNESCO’s World Heritage List, saying “it was wrong to try to rank world cuisines.”
His problem with this request is not that French gastronomy isn’t worthy of preservation, but rather that ALL gastronomy is […]

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A few weeks ago the UK’s Guardian published a list of the 50 people who could save the planet. It’s an eclectic and diverse spread including everyone from activist/matinee idol Leonardo DiCaprio to German Chancellor Angela Merkel to…our own Carlo Petrini.
Being a UK publication it leans towards Brits, but it’s a great way to […]

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Slow Food USA members should have just received the issue 4 of The Snail for 2007. The theme of the issue is American Food Traditions; we asked some people to share with our readers their personal food heritage in a feature called “I Am What I Ate: Food from my childhood.” Below, Slow […]

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In the garden, overlooking the ruins of a home for aged Franciscan friars, under white umbrellas and the blazing Poblano sun, we ate tortillas, drank mezcal, and met our neighbors, from the UK, Japan, Italy, Germany, Chile, Brazil, Sweden, Mexico….and on and on. Suddenly, a 70 piece mariachi band, dressed all in white–violoins, guitars, […]

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