Slow Food News & STORIES
Exploring the History of the Geechee Red Pea
Excerpted from EATING TO EXTINCTION: The World's Rarest Foods and Why We Need to Save Them by Dan Saladino. Published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux. Copyright © 2021 by Dan Saladino. All rights...
Stories of Food: Good, Clean and Fair for All
By Michelle DiMuzio, Communications CoordinatorBack in 2020, Cedar Schimke, former Executive Director of Slow Food Minnesota, had a vision to make a documentary that showed how the values of...
Dignity and Humanity: The Soul Food Scholar
By Michelle DiMuzio, Communications Coordinator Adrian Miller is a food writer, James Beard Award winner, attorney, and certified barbeque judge. He won a Snailblazer Award in 2021 for Best Food...
African Americans’ deep roots to the cultural foodways of America
By APRIL JONES, Pinehurst Community ActionThe legacy of America is entrenched with deep and abiding cultural foodways that unite and bind us as a country. Many of those legacies are linked to...
Commensality & Community: Meet Food Justice Activist Brittany Lemon
By Michelle DiMuzio, Communications CoordinatorBrittany Lemon, Food Justice Chair of Slow Food Atlanta, discovered her passion for food and the all-encompassing agricultural space at a young...
What’s New with the National Statute
By Michelle DiMuzio, Communications CoordinatorEvery four years, the Slow Food USA community revisits its National Statute and makes revisions based on current needs. The current National...
Meet Four Crafters Embracing Sustainability
By Michelle DiMuzio, Communications CoordinatorThis blog post was written in partnership with Adriana Stetson from the Good Food Foundation. Responses have been edited for clarity. For a long time,...
Sustainable Living with TILIA Wines: People Matter
By Michelle DiMuzio, Communications Coordinator“TILIA Wines and Slow Food share many values; a commitment to biodiversity, preserving and nurturing plants and animals, creating resilient vineyards,...
Slow Food Live Recap: Winning A Fair Farm Bill
By Michelle DiMuzio, Communications CoordinatorLast week, Slow Food USA hosted its last Slow Food Live of the year, Winning a Fair Farm Bill. The panel discussed the successes and failures of past...
How to fertilize a school garden program amid a global pandemic
By Brian Solem, Director of CommunicationsPhotos provided by Shawana Ledgister-Joseph Marc Gauthier didn’t start his career as a school garden expert, but that’s where he thrives today. After...
Fueling food sovereignty in Puerto Rico
By michelle dimuzio, communications coordinatorSpanish-language interpretation provided by Jackie ParralTo bring our year to a close, Slow Food USA wants to highlight some Slow Food Sparks that have...
Two virtual summits highlighted foodways on land and sea in 2021
By Michelle DiMuzio, Communications CoordinatorTo bring our year to a close, Slow Food USA wants to highlight some Slow Food Sparks that have emerged for members of our national community. What are...