Slow Food Los Angeles

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

Michael Pollan and Will Allen at Pop!Tech

Michael Pollan and Will Allen spoke at the Pop!Tech conference on the flaws and hidden costs of the industrial food system, the benefits of more sustainable agricultural practices, and the bounty that’s possible via urban farming. Thought-provoking, passionate… the two videos below are worth watching and sharing for their complementary perspectives on the need for [...]

Food is the Connection: Michael Pollan on related issues

Grist (via grist.tv) captured Michael Pollan’s thoughts on how food is at the center of many of the issues we face today including the energy crisis and the over-dependence on fossil fuels, the healthcare crisis, and climate change. The bottom line: Meaningful improvements in these areas can’t be accomplished independent of changes to our food [...]

Beekeeping at the White House

Elisabeth Goodridge of The New York Timesreports on the success of some of the most active associates of the White House garden: the honeybees.
Many of us have been enchanted by the addition of honeybee hives as part of the White House’s garden, and Ms. Goodridge’s article introduces us to Charlie Brandts, the White House [...]

Wendell Berry on KQED

This morning, Michael Krasny of KQED/San Francisco was joined by Wendell Berry, a farmer, author, and poet who has been living and writing about Slow Food principles long before the organization existed. A participant in last year’s Slow Food Nation celebration, he’s a clear voice of common sense and direct experience, and he’s a beloved [...]

School Lunch on KCRW’s Good Food

Evan Kleiman’s “Good Food” on KCRW is a favorite of Slow Food Los Angeles members and friends for timely information on good, clean, and fair food in and around the city. Don’t forget to tune in tomorrow morning at 11:00am when Evan will interview Slow Food USA president Josh Viertel about the state of school [...]

School Lunch in the News

Mary MacVean looks at the growing momentum in Congress for substantive changes to the Child Nutrition Act–the focus of Slow Food’s Time For Lunch campaign.
Among those supporting improvements to the Act are Representative George Miller (D-Martinez) and Representative Lynn Woolsey (D-Petaluma).
Slow Food Los Angeles heartily supports the Time For Lunch platform which calls for increases [...]

Time For Lunch in the Los Angeles Times

News is spreading about the Time For Lunch campaign and about Slow Food Los Angeles’s Labor Day Eat-ins: This morning’s “Daily Dish” on the Los Angeles Times’ website features a piece by Mary MacVean about the goals of the campaign and local efforts to change the Child Nutrition Act, which is the foundation of the [...]

In the News (part 2)… Wednesday, August 19, 2009

School lunches are more and more in the news, which itself is good news. Slow Food USA’s Time For Lunch campaign is in full swing, and today’s news links reflects that:
† “Why a Twenty-Something Should Care About School Lunch“: Claire Stanford shares her twenty-something perspective on school lunches on the Civil Eats blog and makes [...]

In the News… Friday, August 14, 2009 (part 1)

There’s lots of news of interest to Slow Food Los Angeles members and friends in recent days, so this update will be in two parts:
† “Out of the Kitchen, Onto the Couch”: Michael Pollan’s recent article in the New York Times Magazine looked at food from another perspective:
Today the average American spends a mere [...]

In the News… Friday, July 10, 2009

The newswires are hot with information and commentary of interest to Slow Food Los Angeles members and friends:
† San Francisco’s Food Policy: How can urban land be put to better use? How do cities decrease the amount of food from outside their foodsheds, encourage consumption of homegrown and locally grown food, and offer more food [...]

Josh Viertel and Ruth Reichl: Slow Food on Less Money

Slow Food USA president Josh Viertel and Ruth Reichl, editor-in-chief of Gourmet, appeared recently on Leonard Lopate’s WNYC show to discuss the importance of sustainable agriculture and how good, clean, and fair food can be affordable and accessible. They also talk about how they became aware of Slow Food as a social movement, how the [...]

The Missing Link: Cooking

Saturday’s New York Times featured an op-ed contribution by Amanda Hesser that deserves attention. “Commander in Chef” highlights the fact that all too often, developing cooking skills–and the desire to cook–is overshadowed by issues surrounding the acquisition of food:
[T]errific local ingredients aren’t much use if people are cooking less and less; cooking is to gardening [...]

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