If you haven’t already seen it, check out Kim Severson’s article about Slow Food and Slow Food Nation in yesterday’s Dining Section of the NY Times.  It’s well worth reading all of comments on their site as well. In particular, thanks to Mike in Chicago for explaining things so well:
I think different aspects of Slow […]

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Some Thursday links for your all:

Slow Food Nation’s Victory Garden is complete and it’s beautiful. And Alice Waters talks up the street food section of the event.
But can edible gardens save our broken food system?  Check out this very interesting article from one of the people who had his lawn transformed by artist Fritz Haeg’s […]

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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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In the New York Times Dining section today, I read this:
Chicagoans can feast on foie gras once more. The Chicago City Council just repealed the ban on its sale that it put in place two years ago.
Now I know that many of my vegan friends will go ballistic on me when I say that this […]

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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 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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In case you missed this, Atlanta’s “Sunday Paper” had this to say about its convivium, and founding leader (and Southern Regional Governor) Julie Schaffer:

Preserving traditions

Photo Credit: Spark St. Jude
Julie Shaffer, founder of the Atlanta chapter of Slow Food
By Hope S. Philbrick
If you ate milk and cookies every day after school and now serve the same […]

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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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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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Regarding Joel Stein’s Time Magazine article “Extreme Eating”  - while Mr. Stein is of course free to eat whatever type of food he chooses, I must take exception to his contention that “Dodd was basically telling the Iowans that every night they should decide whether to accompany their pork with creamed corn, corn on the […]

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