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Culinate, the food website for those who care about eating better, is sponsoring as many as 10 travel scholarships for […]

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by Slow Food USA staffer Julia De Martini Day 
Last friday afternoon I volunteered for the first time with Harvest Time in Harlem, a Slow Food in Schools program facilitated by Slow Food NYC member and Slow Food USA Convivium Coordinator Yuri Asano.  The session’s focus was sustainability and  part of our activity involved cutting micro-greens […]

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Today we’ve got an interview with Josh Hahn, whose company, Stone Bridge, advises schools on how to address sustainability and how their physical campuses can become integral components of this curricular mission.
We here at SFUSA first met you through you involvement with the Lawrenceville School, a private boarding school in New Jersey.  They have an […]

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by Slow Food in Schools Coordinator, Cecily Upton
Here at Slow Food USA, we’ve been noticing an interesting and exciting trend: young folks eschewing the corporate/industrial complex and going back to the land and back to the kitchen.
We’re not the only ones who noticed it either–Saturday’s New York Times Style Section included a lengthy article about […]

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When people call us here at Slow Food USA asking about undergraduate and graduate degrees in Food Studies/Gastronomy, we’ve in the past only had a few directions in which to steer them.
First, there’s the University of Gastronomic Sciences (UNISG), Slow Food’s University with campuses in Pollenzo and Colorno. One can go there for the […]

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What better symbol of our commitment to Slow principles and ecological living than growing a garden? Home food production is almost a forgotten art, but Kitchen Gardeners International (KGI) and Portland, Maine convivium leader David Buchanan are working to reverse today’s downward trends and help revive our gardens.
By David Buchanan
According to USDA statistics, today we […]

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Based on all the emails we got, Slow Food friends from around the country were captivated by the NY Times article about “slow design” a few weeks ago. It was such a hit that the San Francisco Chronicle also ran the story the following week.
It got us thinking about the intersections of Slow Food […]

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Getting farm fresh fruits and vegetables to families in urban food deserts is no easy feat. It requires creative thinking, and usually a whole lot of gumption and perseverance from a few dedicated people. Last fall, on book tour with Carlo Petrini, a few of us saw first hand the farmers’ markets that […]

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