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Slow Food Leaders: Aretta Begay

Dec 10, 2019 | Farms and Farming, Slow Food Leaders, Slow Meat

Everyone should be mindful of the history of food. So many American foods stem from wild edible native American foods.

Slow Food Leaders: Brian Yazzie

Dec 10, 2019 | Cooking, Food Justice, Slow Food Leaders

“This is the time and place for the Indigenous food movement. The Western perspective may see us as a trend or a fad, but we’ve always been here; we’ve just been overlooked. Not only did our ancestors survive colonization, but so did our ingredients.”

Slow Food Leaders: Arden Lewis

Dec 10, 2019 | Cooking, Food Justice, Slow Food Leaders

The immigrant and refugee women who cook at Comal are participants in that experience, not simply hourly workers in a cafe. They are cultural ambassadors to the surrounding community, sharing recipes, techniques, and stories. They cook food that humanizes and equalizes.

Slow Food Leaders: Christina Ng

Dec 10, 2019 | Cooking, Farms and Farming, Food Justice, Slow Food Leaders

The message is to slow down. Gather around the bread making or the smell of sautéing onion. Let that capture your attention, get involved. It is innate within you already.

Slow Food Leaders: Yusuf Bin-Rella

Dec 10, 2019 | Cooking, Farms and Farming, Food Justice, Slow Food Leaders

“Food sovereignty is reconnecting to and celebrating one’s roots and ancestry and not needing to ask permission to feed yourself, your family and your community foods that are culturally appropriate.”

Slow Food Leaders: Kevin Mitchell

Dec 10, 2019 | Food Justice, Slow Food Leaders

We can all bring the tenets of Slow Food to life. I’m working to get people to think about it at the grocery store and farmers market. To ask questions, like how was this produced, who produced it, who’s in the field picking those peas, how are they being treated, and to make good decisions about choosing food.

Slow Food Leaders: Elsi Rose

Dec 8, 2019 | Cooking, Farms and Farming, Policy, Slow Food Leaders

Elsi encourages others to look at Slow Food, to pick and choose what can be applied to the needs of their community and adding their own “flavor” to it, much the way her residents use the fruits of the community garden. Nothing makes her smile more than walking into the garden to a chorus of, “my grandma used to make that!”

Slow Food USA Welcomes Two New Chapters

Dec 2, 2019 | News, Slow Food Chapters in Action

Slow Food USA welcomes two new chapters

Cooking Heritage Turkey

Nov 26, 2019 | Biodiversity, Cooking

by Julie Kunen, Slow Food USA ‘Tis the season! No, not the Christmas season, the Thanksgiving season — the most delicious holiday of the year. Understandably, you might be expecting a blog post about turkey. Preparing turkey, how to not overcook the turkey, eating...

Slow Food Russian River Community Apple Press: 2019 Report

Nov 19, 2019 | Event, Slow Food Chapters in Action

by Paula Shatkin, Paula Downing and Bob Burke To paraphrase Joe Namath, “We can’t wait for next season, because we get better every year.” The 2019 apple season at the Community Apple Press has come to a close and what a banner season it was. We manage to improve our...