Slow Food Los Angeles

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

In the News… Friday, June 29, 2007

† EWG Farm Bill Petition: The Environmental Working Group is collecting signatures online and has asked that Slow Food Los Angeles and other organizations concerned with the Farm Bill debate spread the word to our members and friends. The text of the petition, along with the online signup form, is available at:
http://www.democracyinaction.org/dia/organizationsORG/ewgroup/petition.jsp?petition_KEY=630. The EWG’s website [...]

Apricots and Lavender in Ojai

Our Slow Food colleagues in the Ojai convivium have shared with us news about the early summer bounty in the Ojai/Ventura area:
K.B. Hall’s 100-year-old apricot orchard in the Upper Ojai Valley is packed with apricots with this year. The farm stand on Hwy 150 between Santa Paula and Ojai (near the Summit) should be open [...]

More Info on Farmer John Screenings

Update: July 21, 2007: Screenings have been confirmed at the Laemmle Music Hall theatre; more information has now been posted.
Update: July 5, 2007: Los Angeles-area screenings have been rescheduled or cancelled: We’re not sure which, but have requested additional information from the film’s distributor.
In addition to the Ojai screenings, Q&A, and dinner in connection [...]

In the News… Monday, June 25, 2007

† Fighting to Protect Chocolate: Today’s New York Timesfeatured an op-ed piece by Mort Rosenblum, author of Chocolate: A Bittersweet Saga of Dark and Light, regarding the proposal to change what constitutes “chocolate”:
In America, the Food and Drug Administration can act swiftly to change rules based on what it calls a citizen’s petition. Last year, [...]

Event Announcement: Farmer John Screening + Dinner

Our colleagues in the Ojai convivium have asked us to extend this invitation to Slow Food Los Angeles members and friends:
Farmer John Brings the Real Dirt to the Ojai Playhouse
The Real Dirt on Farmer John is a movie about Illinois farmer John Petersen and his decades-long struggle to wrest right livelihood from his family’s farm. [...]

Event Announcement: Blenheim Apricots in Santa Barbara

Laurence Hauben, the leader of Slow Food Santa Barbara, has extended an invitation to Slow Food Los Angeles members and friends to attend a “market foray” focused on Blenheim apricots.
When: Wednesday, June 20, 2007 from 9:30am until 3:00pm
Where: in and around Santa Barbara; details available upon request (see below)
Cost: $50 per person; $25 for children [...]

In the News… Tuesday, June 12, 2007

† Standards for “Organic” Foods: The Los Angeles Times reported this weekend that changes in the stardards under which a food product can be labeled “organic” are moving through the USDA:
A deadline of midnight Friday to come up with a new list of nonorganic ingredients allowed in USDA-certified organic products passed without action from the [...]

Contacting Legislators to Save Fresh Start

Our colleagues at the California Food Policy Advocates have issued a call to action regarding the Fresh Start Program:
The wildly successful effort to bring more fresh produce to school children is scheduled to perish! For the last two years, the California Fresh Start Program has provided schools with 10 cents to increase fruit and vegetable [...]

In the News… “Fresh Start” in Jeopardy?

An article by Carol Ness in today’s San Francisco Chronicle spotlights the budget cuts in Sacramento that will affect children in public schools across California:
For just 10 cents a day per child, California public school kids are getting to eat fresh apples, oranges and strawberries along with their Pop-Tarts and doughnuts at school breakfast.
At least, [...]

Cherry Picking in Leona Valley–Cancelled

This weekend’s gathering for cherry picking in Leona Valley has been cancelled because many of the cherry farms have announced that their trees have not borne as much fruit as anticipated. From Charles Rosenberg:
The cherry picking season was strange this year. It started early and has ended early. There were fewer cherries this year because [...]

In the News…Monday, June 4, 2007

† Is the honeybee problem greater than we thought? Salon.com convened a roundtable of honeybee experts to talk about what we know, what we don’t know, and what amounts to urban myth in the matter of the dwindling honeybee population. [Registration or advertisement viewing may be required for access.]
† Is it more expensive to shop [...]

Cherry Picking in Leona Valley

Update: June 6, 2007: This gathering has been cancelled due to closure of participating farms.
Cherry picking season is upon us! Charles Rosenberg, a friend of Slow Food Los Angeles, makes an annual excursion to the Leona Valley, near Palmdale, to pick cherries, and you are invited along!
 
When: Sunday, June 10, 2007 beginning at 10:00am
Where: [...]

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