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From the SFUSA Blog
- A Wave of Hope
- Posted on Fri, February 10, 2012
- It’s the International Year of Cooperatives!
- Posted on Wed, February 08, 2012
- The Guardians of Ozette
- Posted on Thu, February 02, 2012
- What’s in your food?
- Posted on Wed, January 25, 2012
- The Soul of Slow Food: Fighting for Both Farmers and Eaters
- Posted on Tue, January 24, 2012
In the News
Lansing State Journal, Switching to Fresh, Real Food a Key Healthy Habit
Visit the Lansing City Market on any given day, and there’s a good chance you’ll run into Rebecca and David Eldridge. The Lansing couple does almost all of their grocery shopping at the year-round farmers market that overlooks the Grand River downtown. Read more...
November 20, 2011
EHow Food, Bountiful Thanksgiving on a Budget
Thanksgiving is about giving thanks. It’s about family and friends. But it’s equally, if not mostly, about food. Besides, thankfulness and loved ones tend to be free. Food isn’t. Read more...
November 18, 2011
Edible Manhattan, Want to Stop the “Secret Farm Bill” and Subsidies? Sign the Slow Food-Approved Local Food, Farms and Jobs Act
I sat down to a friend’s dinner table last week with a hunk of acorn squash roasted in brown butter, a mixed greens salad with a yogurt vinaigrette, root vegetable fritters, various jars of home-pickled and home-jammed produce, bread with goat cheese and red wine (a nice spicy one, for under 20 bucks)–all grown or produced within 30 miles. Read more...
November 16, 2011
Mother Nature Network, Slow Food USA’s Thanksgiving Guide
Slow Food has recipes, heritage turkey information, tips and even dinner conversation ideas to help with your Thanksgiving meal planning. Read more...
November 14, 2011
Grist, Something to be Thankful for: Real Turkeys Make a Comeback
In 1997, The American Livestock Breeds Conservancy (ALBC) took a turkey census. For about half a century, nearly every turkey farm in the U.S. had been raising a breed known as the Broad Breasted White. (This cost-efficient, big-breasted bird has a lifespan of only 18 weeks and can neither fly, nor reproduce without artificial insemination). Read more...
November 14, 2011
Forbes, Michael Pollan: The World’s 7 Most Powerful Foodies
Josh Viertel, President, Slow Food USA
He has moved the American wing of this international organization front and center on questions of access and policy, while continuing to celebrate the cultural and biological diversity of our food traditions. Read more...
November 7, 2011
Yale Daily News, Slow Food USA President Josh Viertel Talks Culinary Culture
Q. How does it feel to come back to New Haven and see the ways in which the Yale Sustainable Food Project — which you spearheaded — has grown and become a part of the culture?
A. I was just talking to a girl, Zoe. She came up to me to say thank you, and that it was so great to have a place to go where she could get her hands dirty and cook food with people. It struck me that when I was in school, I didn’t have any place to do that. Read more...
October 21, 2011
EmPower, Grassroots Giver: Slow Food USA
Fast food and fast lifestyles seemed to be the ultimate desire for many people during the late 1980s. However, the disappearance of local food traditions was a concern to Carlo Petrini, who founded Slow Food in Italy. Its mission: to create a world where food and farming is good for consumers, good for farmers and food producers, and good for the environment. Founded as international movement, it soon caught on in the United States and now Slow Food USA’s network includes more than 250,000 supporters, 25,000 members, and 225 local chapters. Read more...
October 19, 2011
LinkTV.org, World Food Week: Interview with Slow Food USA
This week on Link TV, we are airing a week of programming uncovering various global perspectives on food. In today’s report, we interviewed Jane Sung E Bai, Director of National Programs for Slow Food USA. Read more...
October 17, 2011
Grist, All Aboard the Ark of Taste
What do donkey salami, Ligurian bee honey, the Teltow turnip and the Chilean white strawberry have in common? They are all foods that have been classified as endangered. If you think this is a strange list, there’s much more where it came from. In order to feast your eyes upon a plethora of endangered foods, climb aboard the Ark of Taste. Read more...
October 17, 2011
Faster Times, Food Politics: Interview with Slow Food’s Josh Viertel
When Josh Viertel took the helm at Slow Food USA in 2008, the organization had a reputation—at least in this country—as a club for foodies. Under Viertel’s leadership, though, the organization has dispelled this image with an increasing focus on food justice issues such as improving the abysmal quality of cafeteria food and fighting “ag-gag” bills that would’ve made it illegal to take photos or videos of farms. Read more…
October 14, 2011
Washington Post, Boiled Cider Captures the Essence of Apples, in Syrup Form
If you measure seasons by produce, you know: Fall weighs heavy with apples. Varieties with tiered flavors and quirky names such as Newtown Pippin, Grimes Golden and Northern Spy carry a perfume at markets and farm stands that only this season knows. Great apples, we’re reminded, are fleeting. Read more...
September 13, 2011
FOX Business, Government Subsidies Making You Fat?
Slow Food USA President Josh Viertel argues government farm subsidies, particularly for corn, are making America’s obesity crisis worse. Read more...
August 30, 2011
Aspen TV, 2011 Aspen Ideas Festival: Josh Viertel
There’s always a story behind the food we eat whether or not we hear it. Slow Food USA’s President Josh Viertel describes the poor diet of most Americans, the obstacles to eating good, clean, fresh and fair foods and how we can make a change at the 2011 Aspen Ideas Festival. Read more...
June 29, 2011
