Do you have any food rules to share?
If so, Michael Pollan would like to hear about them. He’s preparing a new project on food rules and is looking for readers’ input, whether they’re rules that you’ve heard from parents or grandparents, ones you’ve collected throughout your life and find meaningful, or rules you’ve created for yourself or your family. Pollan offers examples [...]
What We’re Reading: Mother Jones March/April 2009 issue
Several articles in the current issue of Mother Jones will be of interest to Slow Food Los Angeles members and friends: ++ In “Michael Pollan Fixes Dinner,” Clara Jeffery interviews “America’s favorite food intellectual” about ethanol and biofuels, food lobbies, secularizing food, the role of food in climate change, and the difference between being a [...]
In the News… Saturday, December 20, 2008
† Cheap food isn’t so cheap when there’s this mess to clean up. Kudos to Elanor Starmer of The Ethicurean.com team for her work on the report. † Seafood sustainability and supermarkets: Greenpeace recently issued its report on how supermarkets are minding seafood sustainability, and the results are mixed. (Thanks to The Food Section for [...]
Weiser Family Farms in The Kitchn
Slow Food member and Kitchn contributor Emily Ho sings the praises of Weiser Family Farm and their glorious root vegetables. Many Slow Food members are die-hard fans of Alex Weiser’s potatoes and carrots, but Emily’s piece reminds us not to forget other seasonal delights including parsnips, turnips, cauliflower, and Jerusalem artichokes. Read Emily’s piece online [...]
In the News… Thursday, December 18, 2008
Many Slow Food members and friends have been expressing their opinions about how the next administration’s food policy should take shape and who should occupy key food-related positions in the Obama administration. Earlier this week President-elect Obama announced that former Iowa governor Tom Vilsack is his choice to fill the Secretary of Agriculture position. Vilsack [...]
Secretary of Food?
Nicholas Kristof’s op-ed piece in yesterday’s New York Times suggests that while finding appropriate candidates for the Secretary of Agriculture position is necessary, we need a more radical rethinking of the position itself. “Secretary of Food” captures the spirit: Read Kristof’s piece online. (Thanks to Arthur Greenwald and other Slow Food L.A. members and friends [...]
No “chefs” in Marcella Hazan’s kitchen
In her op-ed piece in today’s New York Times, Marcella Hazan talks about the increasingly frequent elision of “chef” and “cook” and why an appreciation of the latter is so important: I am my family’s cook. It is the food prepared and shared at home that, for more than 50 years, has provided a solid [...]
Michael Pollan: “Eating Sunshine” at the Web 2.0 Summit
As part of the Web 2.0 conference earlier this month, Michael Pollan talked with John Battelle about many of the issues Pollan raised in his recent New York Times Magazine article, “Farmer in Chief: What the Next President Can and Should Do to Remake the Way We Grow and Eat Our Food.” His advice to [...]
Reading: The Fall Issue of Edible Los Angeles
The Fall issue of Edible Los Angeles is now available and it features a host of stories of interest to Slow Food Los Angeles members and friends, including news about subjects ranging from the national Farm-to-School program to the importance of honeybees, from the hard-working middlemen who’ve organized to provide better organic produce to U-pick [...]
Proposition 2: California votes tomorrow
Naomi Starkman interviews Wayne Pacelle, President of the Humane Society, about Proposition 2, a California ballot measure that’s of significant interest to Slow Food members and friends in California, and one that should be of interest to anyone who consumes meat and poultry: The Humane Society has brought a wave of national attention this year [...]
Michael Pollan on the Leonard Lopate Show (WNYC)
WNYC’s Leonard Lopate welcomed Michael Pollan to his radio program earlier this week to discuss the ideas Pollan has raised in In Defense of Food and in his recent article in the New York Times, “Farmer In Chief” about the future of American food policy. Listen online at the WNYC site. (Thanks to Tara Parker-Pope’s [...]
Slow Food Nation “Food for Thought” videos now online
For those who did not attend Slow Food Nation, for those who attended but did not score a ticket to the sold-out Food for Thought lecture series, and for those who attended but would like another opportunity to consider the ideas presented, videos of the presentations and discussions are now available, free of charge, on [...]
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