by Slow Food USA staffer Makalé Faber Cullen
This month’s Harper’s magazine features an excellent article by Nathanael Johnson who takes on the North American black market in raw milk and it’s odd bedfellow… high tech “bio-active” dairy.
The defense of the fresh stuff (aka “green top milk”) has been a steady, under-the-radar activity and a […]

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Slow Food USA Board member, Jim Braun, was one of the subjects of a documentary a few years back on the disappearance of the family farm. It’s a short, simple, and very effective film in three parts that discusses how small farmers in Iowa were squeezed out, with a focus on the small hog […]

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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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Calling all filmmakers!
The Media that Matters film festival– a program of short films that seek to engage viewers and “inspire them to action” — is seeking submissions. This annual festival begins with a launch in June that is followed by a year of screenings, DVD distribution, online viewing and national outreach. In […]

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Roger Repohl keeps bees in The Genesis Community Garden in The Bronx, NY. His bees make a mighty good honey, PLUS, he gives funny and wonderful talks about bees and beekeeping. He can now add movie reviewer to his list of talents.
SEINFELD’S WORLD OF DRONES
by Roger Repohl
Here, take this little True/False quiz on […]

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The University Of California at Berkeley’s online library has curated a rather amazing and comprehensive list of movies about food. Not the fluffy fiction stuff (”Babette’s Feast,” “Like Water for Chocolate,” etc.), but the non-fiction, documentary pieces that look at the underbelly–often the dark underbelly– of food and the food industry. The list […]

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There’s a new, worthy addition to the social action documentary genre, Ian Cheney and Curt Ellis’ “King Corn.” This is no fist-waving, rage-filled exposé; it quietly investigates what Michael Pollan made famous in The Omnivore’s Dilemma (and what Francis Moore Lappé also discussed years ago in Diet for a Small Planet): corn dominates our […]

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