Public Response Helps Secure 90-Day Extension for the Hollywood Farmers’ Market
SEE-LA announced this evening that the Hollywood Farmers’ Market has been granted a 90-day extension to its street closure permit while alternatives—for the market and the Los Angeles Film School’s parking access—are more carefully considered. The text of their statement follows: We would like to convey our sincerest thanks to all of our supporters who [...]
Hollywood Farmers’ Market: The Film School’s perspective
Thanks to Felicia Friesema and L.A. Weekly for pressing for more information from the Los Angeles Film School about its objections to the continuation of the Hollywood Farmers’ Market in its longtime location. Information from their conversation with Antoine Ibrahim, the school’s spokesman, is now online on the L.A. Weekly’s Squid Ink blog.
Support the Hollywood Farmers’ Market Today
The continued operation of the Hollywood Farmers’ Market is in jeopardy due to objections raised by the Los Angeles Film School to the market’s footprint and its proximity to the school’s parking garage. Although the market will be allowed to continue in some fashion in the coming weeks, there are still serious concerns about its [...]
Hollywood Farmers’ Market in jeopardy
We’re hearing reports this morning that a petition was made available at today’s Hollywood Farmers’ Market because the market’s permit is in jeopardy. Blogging.la has a report, and we’ve contacted SEE-LA to ask about these developments and how market patrons can make their concerns known to the appropriate authorities. As soon as we have more [...]
Emily in Italy: Slow Food Summer
We’ve been remiss in sharing some of the news from Emily Ventura, the chairperson of our social action committee, as she explores Italy during her year as a Fulbright Fellow. Emily recently attended Terra Madre as a Slow Food USA delegate and will be sharing her observations with us online and in person this winter. [...]
Listening Sessions for Certified Farmers’ Market Program
Update: David Karp offers specific suggestions for improvement in his Los Angeles Times. It’s available online, via the LATimes’ site. Thanks to Amelia Saltsman–Slow Food member, author of The Santa Monica Farmers’ Market Cookbook, and the public member of the California Certified Farmers’ Market Advisory Committee–for alerting us to listening sessions that have been scheduled [...]
“The Inedible Egg”: Slow Food USA Calls for Food Safety Accountability
A new video from Slow Food USA calls on all of us to let Congress know that “we want our food to be edible, that we demand better control of and more accountability from our food industry to ensure the health of all Americans.” Watch here: More from Slow Food USA: The Story Behind Your [...]
“Good Food For All”: A Taste of the Los Angeles Foodshed
The Los Angeles Food Policy Task Force was convened last fall and has prepared a report with recommendations for how we can increase access to healthy, affordable, fairly and sustainably produced foods and strengthen our connection to the regional food economy. The resulting report is The Good Food for All Agenda. Roots of Change will [...]
Alice Waters on the morality of food
As part of the Washington Post‘s “Divine Impulses” interview series, Sally Quinn talked with Alice Waters about the morality of food, about our connectedness with others, and about the “good, clean, fair philosophy” that summarizes Slow Food’s efforts to make good food a right shared by all, not a privilege enjoyed by the few.
The Real Cost of Subsidies
The graphic above was originally published in 2007 during the Farm Bill debate, but Raj Patel is reminding us again of the hidden costs associated with food that is fast, cheap, and easy. In his new book, The Value of Nothing, Patel examines the hollowness of prices and the danger of equating price with value. [...]
“Food Fight” Screening in Westwood
Chris Taylor has alerted us that his documentary, Food Fight, will be screened as part of the “Something to Talk About” documentary film series, a unique independent series of films that are meant to provoke conversation about positive change in American society. The films will screen monthly at the Crest Theater in Westwood. For those [...]
Getting ready for the journey
Emily has penned the following entry as she prepares to travel from Los Angeles to Italy for a fellowship at the University of Gastronomic Sciences: Here it goes…this is my first blog post! It is now a few days until we leave and last Friday was the first in a series of many good-byes. I [...]
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