Slow Food News & STORIES
Slow Sipping with Matcha
Matcha is beloved for its health benefits and brings the clarity and energy you need into your busy day. If you drink every sip of matcha with a purpose – whether that’s redeeming its sustained caffeine effects, appreciating its complex flavor profile, or acknowledging its historical significance – you can achieve some sense of mindfulness and “slowness” in your day!
Child Nutrition Reauthorization: Letter from Slow Food USA
About every five years, Congress, via a Child Nutrition Reauthorization (CNR), reauthorizes essential federal nutrition programs that help provide healthy food and nutrition to more than 35,000,000 children and infants each year. Slow Food USA calls upon Congress and the Biden/Harris Administration to ensure that the next Child Nutrition Reauthorization addresses the many facets of child nutrition security. Read our Executive Director’s letter to Congress.
Why I’m Never Buying from Bulk Bins Again
With Earth Month coming to a close, I wanted to reflect on one of my former “zero-waste” habits that I’ve tossed out the window. I used to love strolling the well-stocked aisles of Sprouts or Whole Foods, cotton produce bags in hand, ready to fill up on all the bulk bin goodies. Whether it was stocking up on dried fruit, rolled oats, or nuts, I thought I was doing the planet a favor by buying everything in bulk without packaging – that is until I met Alex Willson, a pecan farmer and expert on all-things nuts.
Catching Up with National Resilience Fund Grantees
Slow Food USA created the National Resilience Fund to give direct financial support to vital businesses and workers in community-based food systems, through local Slow Food chapters and working groups. We caught up with some of the first and second round grantees, which focused on local community initiatives and black-led initiatives.
Slow Food Chicago x Urban Growers Collective
Slow Food Chicago has been partnering with Urban Growers Collective (UGC), a non-profit urban agriculture organization in Chicago. I had the chance to chat with Laurell Sims, the Co-Founder and CEO – Finance at UGC and Meag Sargent, Food Justice & Policy Co-Chair, and Communications Co-Chair for SFC about their initiatives and more.
“You Say Pasta” with Pastificio Di Martino
In week two of the World of Pasta series, presented by Pastaficio Di Martino and Slow Food Live, we explored the diversity and creativity that can be found even in just one type of pasta. Three...
Pasta 101 with Pastificio Di Martino + The Pasta Queen
To kick off our three part pasta series, in partnership with Pastificio Di Martino, we were joined by the Pasta Queen, Nadia Caterina Munno, and Pastificio Di Martino President, Giuseppe di Martino.
Small Farms & Community
On Earth Day, we had the pleasure of chatting with a group of farmers, advocates, and stewards of small farms and Community Supported Agriculture (CSA). We were joined by Tess Romanski from the Fair...
National Meeting April 2021
Thank you for an inspiring spring national meeting this week! After being isolated for so long due to COVID, it was so good to see friends from around the country, in many different communities. I...
Slow Food New York State and the Upstate School Garden Initiative
By Michelle DiMuzio, Slow Food USA Editorial InternPhotos by “It opens up the students’ world. So many students haven’t tasted fresh fruit or vegetables and they don’t realize food doesn’t come...
The Love Fridge Chicago: Spreading the Love in a Time of Need
One is hidden in the alley behind a used bookstore. Another is tucked in the corner of a Mexican-Korean fusion restaurant. A third is proudly displayed along the sidewalk near a local art gallery. Most are on the South Side of Chicago, some on the West Side, and a few are scattered throughout the middle.
The Get Gardening Guide from Slow Food USA
A collection of Slow Food Live gardening how-tos and guides.