Slow Food Los Angeles

supporting good, clean, and fair food production and consumption in Los Angeles

Chef-Farmer Series: PACE, Clearwater Farms, and Flora Bella Farm

We’re pleased to announce the second in our series of Chef-Farmer dinners, a mushroom dinner at PACE. This one could be subtitled “Holy Smokes, the Porcinis are Poppin’!”
Join us as Sandy Gendel of PACE, David West of Clearwater Farms, and James Birch of Flora Bella Farm team up for an unforgettable evening of mushroom madness! [...]

In the News…Tuesday, May 15, 2007

Items that may be of interest to Slow Food members and friends:
† Farm Bill News: Representative Collin Peterson of the House Agriculture Committee has announced that markups on at least three of the titles in the Farm Bill will begin next week. If you have waited to contact your representative and members of the Agriculture [...]

Now Available: Slow Food Nation by Carlo Petrini

In Slow Food Nation, Slow Food founder Carlo Petrini describes how we can take back control of our food by outlining three central principles that are the focus of the Manifesto of Quality that was announced at the 2006 Salone del Gusto: food must be good (healthful and delicious); it must be clean (produced sustainably [...]

An encouraging Farm Bill proposal?

Tom Philpott at Grist posts news of a new Farm Bill proposal introduced yesterday by Representatives Rosa DeLauro (D-Connecticut) and Wayne Gilchrest (R-Maryland). He notes:
First of all, it deals with commodity subsidies boldly: by eliminating them.
The farm bill is broken into ten “titles,” each laying out funding mechanisms for various parts of agriculture and hunger [...]

“The Fundamentals of Green” in Santa Monica

The Santa Monica Farmers’ Market will present “The Fundamentals of Green: How Chefs, Restaurants, and Farmers Promote and Sustain Environmental Responsibility.” Market supervisor Laura Avery will moderate the discussion. The panelists are Chris Blobaum, Chef/Partner Wilshire Restaurant, Santa Monica; Chris Cadwell, Certified Organic Farmer, Tutti Frutti Farm, Lompac; and Edgar Jaime, Sustainable Farmer, Jaime Farms, City of [...]

Eating Well in an Era of Industrialized Food

Our colleagues in the San Diego convivium have shared with us news of a public event that may be of interest:
Join health and nutrition experts, nutrition researchers, and journalists for provocative discussion: Eating Well in an Industrialzed World.
Find out what is “good” food. Ask your own health and nutrition questions during a Q&A session with these [...]

In the News…More on Caltech Olive Oil, the Farm Bill, Eating Locally

† Caltech Olive Oil: An NPR interview with Caltech students who are producing olive oil from campus-grown olives.
† The Farm Bill: Fattening Waistlines and Pocketbooks: An op-ed piece in the Baltimore Sun by Scott Kahan suggests that “farm policy is an ideal avenue to address the obesity epidemic at its roots”:
A long-running contradiction in [...]

In the News: Why Change “Chocolate”?; a Slow Food prince

† Why change the definition of chocolate? We know it’s a matter of dollars and cents, but why now? Tom Philpott at Grist posts some thoughts:
At the time, I didn’t know why the industrial chocolate giants were agitating for this dubious cause. Now I think I know: cocoa-bean prices rose abruptly last year, pushed up [...]