It probably won’t come as a surprise to any of you, but the Slow Food USA staff is rife with CSA-members, market devotees and home chefs.  The results are bag lunches that any playground bully would pummel a classmate for.
Back in the spring, the staffed weighed in with asparagus ideas, today they answer the question:
It’s […]

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Stuff from farms, right? Ahhhh, if only it were so simple!  Even within the most regulated, strict, and authentic farmers market, there are items that might not be quite what (or from where) they seem.  How much of a problem this presents elicits different opinions from different folks.  The New York Times reported two weeks […]

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An email that farmer David Perkins from Wisconsin shared with us about the flood damage on his property articulates perfectly the importance of the concept of a co-producer.
Here’s what David wrote: “A theme near and dear to Slow Food that you may want to follow up on is the support that exists between those farms […]

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It’s hot out there.  Should you need to take a break from your gardening, farming, grilling, etc. this weekend, you can sit down at your computer with an ice cold lemonade and and check out the following:
1. Five Great Websites for Farmers, Wannabe Farmers, and Consumers
2. How to navigate the mysterious origins of those nuts […]

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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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Alas, we just found this call for applications to serve on the Standards Committee that will finalize a national standard for sustainable agriculture under the auspices of the American National Standards Institute (ANSI).  The deadline is today.
This could be a fascinating process, and it will be very interesting to see the outcome–is “sustainable” something that […]

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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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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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“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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by Slow Food USA staffer Julia DeMartini Day
While the United Nations discusses desertification in drought-plagued areas of the developing world, an article in Monday’s NY Times brought our attention to deserts that exist right here in our fertile, developed nation: food deserts.
Food deserts are neighborhoods with inadequate access to fresh food; in many […]

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