Slow Food News & STORIES
Slow Books Announces Abra Berens’ “Grist” as Third Annual Network-Wide Read-Along
Maybe you’ve joined Slow Books for our read-along programming for “How to Be An Antiracist” or “Braiding Sweetgrass,” or perhaps this will be your first read-along. Either way — we’re glad you’re here!
Making whole-vegetable cooking “badass” in Denver
By BRIAN SOLEM, SLOW FOOD USA DIRECTOR OF COMMUNICATIONS PHOTOS BY Holly Adinoff, Bjorn Larroque and Justin WalkerThis story is part one of our Slow and Sustainable series, which profiles food...
Seed Saving in Denver
By Michelle DiMuzio, Communications CoordinatorThe 2021 Slow Food USA Annual Report is now available on our website and is filled with stories of resilience from more than 22 chapters. Over the next...
Remembering Slow Food leader Katherine Deumling
Photos by Shawn LinehanIt is with great sorrow that the Slow Food USA staff, current Board, and former Board members announce the passing of Katherine Deumling, one of the lions of our movement. She...
Slow Food USA announces Cultural Exchange Storytelling Grants
Extremely brief summary Five $400 grants to fund storytelling projects that focus on cultural exchange in foodways and food systems in the US Medium: written, audio, video, or other creative...
Carbon Markets: Rewarding Small Farmers or Protecting Big Ag Polluters?
By Sara S. Blomquist, Slow Food USA Food and Farm Policy Steering Committee Member Photo by Tom FiskThe Growing Climate Solutions Act of 2021 (GCSA), originally introduced in 2020 and revived by the...
Slow Food Live presents Meating the Future: A conversation about the future of real and alternative meat
Slow Food groups across the Americas send antiracist motion to International Congress
Photo by Alyssa Rose The motion below was developed first by Slow Food Brasil, then expanded to include all Slow Food groups in the Americas. We will present this document to the International...
Learn about how Slow Food USA advanced food justice in 2021
By ANNA Mulè, EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR, SLOW FOOD USA Last year was a challenging year for the Slow Food network. With COVID still severely limiting in-person gatherings, and many volunteer leaders in...
Summer reads from the Slow Books team
The Slow Books curators have hand-picked recommended readings to add to your summer reading list! Below you'll find a list of books that pair well with the issues that we're talking about and...
The Rebirth of the Lemon Cling Peach in South Carolina
By Michelle DiMuzio, Communications CoordinatorIn 2017, Slow Food Charleston embarked on an Ark of Taste project to preserve the iconic Lemon Cling Peach. As described by Timothy Matlack, a brewer...
Dismantling injustice on Juneteenth and beyond
In conversation with Jim Embry, Activist And Farmer, Sustainable Communities Network Edited by Michelle DiMuzioCan you tell us about the meaning and legacy of Juneteenth from your perspective? In my...