Feb 7, 2022 | Biodiversity, Cooking, EIJ, Food Justice
By APRIL JONES, Pinehurst Community Action The 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 African American cultural histories and food practices. Our culturally...
Jan 24, 2022 | AR21 1, EIJ, Food Justice, Slow Food Chapters, Slow Food Leaders, Stories
By Michelle DiMuzio, Communications Coordinator Brittany Lemon, Food Justice Chair of Slow Food Atlanta, discovered her passion for food and the all-encompassing agricultural space at a young age. When she was seven, she supported her family’s produce business at...
Jan 11, 2022 | EIJ, Food and Farming, Food Justice, Policy & Public Health, Slow Food Live
By Michelle DiMuzio, Communications Coordinator Last 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 legal action, legislation, executive action, and existing programs...
Sep 17, 2021 | EIJ, Food Justice, Youth Network
By Makala Bach, Slow Food Youth Network USA On September 20, 2017, Luz Cruz hosted a dinner party among the seed library in their New York City apartment. Cruz, a trans Puerto Rican queer in their late 20s, had gathered passionate Puerto Rican chefs, farmers, and food...
Sep 15, 2021 | EIJ, Food Justice, Slow Food Chapters
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...
Jul 6, 2021 | EIJ, Food and Farming, Food Justice, Slow Food Live
Black Farmer Fund is closing the racial wealth gap in agriculture by Michelle DiMuzio, Slow Food USA editorial intern “If you eat food, you are part of our ecosystem,” stated Onika Abraham, Black Farmer Fund Board Member and moderator of the Black Farmer Fund Panel....