Conversation with Chapter Leader Nathan Lou: What Are We Building?
By Michelle DiMuzio, Communications Coordinator Slow Food thrives because of our local chapters. Our chapters span our entire nation and represent our localized food economies. Over the past year and a half, chapter leaders have held difficult conversations as we...Staying in the Slow Food lane
By Anna Mulé, Slow Food USA executive director Last week, we sent an email that talked about our commitment to tackling oppressive food systems. We received a few comments back in the spirit of, “Slow Food has become too political. I’m out. You should stay in your...Slow Books: Why “Braiding Sweetgrass?”
While we typically use the compass of “good, clean and fair food for all” to guide these insights, the themes of Robin Wall Kimmerer’s Braiding Sweetgrass’ mirror many of the values engrained in that directive, making it a natural pick for our second network-wide read. Read on to learn more about why Slow Books curators Cedar, Katie, Margaret and Tammy chose Braiding Sweetgrass.
Improvements, challenges and opportunities for progress in Child Nutrition Reauthorization
By Sara S. Blomquist, SFUSA Food and Farm Policy Steering Committee Every five years, the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) and the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) jointly update the Dietary Guidelines for Americans (DGA). These...Knee High by the 4th of July: Planting King Philip Corn on Wampanoag Land
Earlier this year we shared the story of the King Philip Corn in our Plant A Seed campaign. Today, Danielle Hill, a member of the Mashpee Wampanoag Tribe on Cape Cod, Massachusetts, has planted these seeds with the help of other members of the Tribe. However, to plant these seeds is about so much more than growing food, which she wrote about on her blog, and which we are sharing here with you.
