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In Praise Of Slow Food

Carl Honore | Posted 11.06.2009 | Living

Read More: Fast Food, Italy, Italian Culture, Arianna's Reading, Huffington Post Book Club, In Praise of Slowness, Slow, Arianna's Book Club, Slow Movement, Book Club, London, Slow Food, Eating, Italian Food, Books, Food, Living News
Carl Honore

The bright news is that people all over the world are taking a slower approach to food -- and eating better as a result.

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The New Year Begins

Liz Neumark | Posted 09.21.2009 | New York

Read More: Katchkie Farm, Jewish New Year, Slow Food, Holidays, Religion, Local Food, Organic Food, Judaism, Rosh Hashanah, Food, Gefilte Fish, New York News
Liz Neumark

Heirloom tomatoes, ratatouille and butternut squash soup for Rosh Hashannah: The holiday brings home quiet moments in our lives that are otherwise jammed with obligations and fast meals.

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Minestrone, and Three Other Things That Will Save American School Lunch

Deborah Lehmann | Posted 11.09.2009 | Green

Read More: National School Lunch Program, Tiverton, Slow Food Usa, Slow Food, Usda, Eat-In, School Lunches, Green News
Deborah Lehmann

It's time to bring the school lunch program back to its roots. This year's child nutrition reauthorization provides an enormous opportunity to overhaul school food and teach students healthy eating habits that will last a lifetime.

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There's Power in a Potluck

Jerusha Klemperer | Posted 11.08.2009 | Green

Read More: Slow Food, Slidepoll, Slideshow, Time-for-Lunch-Campaign, Time for Lunch, Green News
Jerusha Klemperer

Sunday night, using leftover bread from Friday night's dinner, some Hudson Valley milk and cream, and two big Jersey zucchini, I baked up a savory zuc...

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Meatless Monday: Labor Day Pains

Ellen Kanner | Posted 10.23.2009 | Green

Read More: Barry Estabrook, Inc., Food, Josh Viertel, Eric Schlosser, Labor Day, Ciw, Slow Food, Eat-Ins, Sustainable Food, Food Politics, Meatless Mondays, Green News
Ellen Kanner

Purple mountain majesties, amber waves of grain, we've got it all, but one of America's greatest natural resources is you. Yeah, you sitting in your ...

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Feeding Kids (Real) Food

Wesley Epplin | Posted 09.24.2009 | Chicago

Read More: Lynn Peemoeller, Slow Food, School Food FOCUS, School Lunch Talk, Time for Lunch, Child Nutrition Act, Mary Ellen Caron, Eat-In, Slow Food Usa, Slow Food Chicago, Farm to School, Daley Plaza, Josh Viertel, Chicago News
Wesley Epplin

Giving our kids healthy fresh foods at school stands to set an example of how to form lasting eating habits that can truly have a positive impact on their health.

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Slow Fish on Martha's Vineyard: Uh, How Does That Work, Exactly?

Susie Middleton | Posted 09.15.2009 | Green

Read More: Slow Food, Sustainable Food, Menemsha, Oysters, Beef Recall, Obamas, Fisheries, Slow Fish, Martha's Vineyard, Green Living, Green News
Susie Middleton

Even if you only add one night of fish to your dinner repertoire each week, you're cutting down on your carbon footprint, adding beneficial Omega-3 fatty acids to your diet, and casting a vote against bad beef.

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Michael Pollan, Julie & Julia, Top Chef -- and Your Health

Waylon Lewis | Posted 09.07.2009 | Living

Read More: Food Network, Julia Child, Alice Waters, Movie, Walk the Talk Show, Cook, elephantjournal.com, Slow Food, Top Chef, Michael Pollan, Cooking, Health, Hosea Rosenberg, Foodie, Green Talk Show, Food, Waylon Lewis, Elephant Journal, Living News
Waylon Lewis

I do like to eat, but (as an uncivilized bachelor) I don't know how to cook or much care about cooking. That is, until Michael Pollan, told about the key to saving the food situation.

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From Slow Food to Slow Living: The New Green Lifestyle Trend

Mairi Beautyman | Posted 09.10.2009 | Green

Read More: Slow Food, Green, Green Living, Organic Food, Sustainable Food, Slow Food Movement, Green News
Mairi Beautyman

I was recently discussing what makes our personal lifestyles green, and came up with the term "Slow Living". Slow living is about living purposefully, consciously, thoughtfully.

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Are IKEA, Outlet Malls, Wal-Mart, and Whole Foods Really Bargains?

Anis Shivani | Posted 08.23.2009 | Green

Read More: Citizenship, Vance Packard, Christopher Lasch, Whole Foods, Cheap, Chinese Factories, Outlet Malls, Wages, Craftsmanship, Cheap Eats, Globalization, Barbara Ehrenreich, David Reisman, Ellen Ruppel Shell, Wal-Mart, Shrimp Farming, Slow Food, Labor, Consumerism, Ikea, Michael Pollan, Betty Friedan, Local Food, Chinese Exports, Marketing, Sustainability, Deforestation, Pricing, Eric Schlosser, Red Lobster, Food, Green News
Anis Shivani

American consumers are being taken for a ride.

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What is Work? La Dolce Vita at Dinnertime

Sharon Glassman | Posted 08.15.2009 | Living

Read More: Slow Food, Italy, Friends, Organic Food, Cooking, Food, Mediterranean Diet, Happiness, Happiness Tips, Family, Living News
Sharon Glassman

By turning a chore into a focused effort of passion and intention, we can cook our way out of the week's professional frying pan and into something deliciously higher.

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Pro Food: Slow Food with an Entrepreneurial Twist

Rob Smart | Posted 08.07.2009 | Green

Read More: Investments, Pro Food, Slow Food, Farms, Sustainable Food, Social Entrepreneurship, Cooking, Sustainable Agriculture, Retail, Eating, Innovation, Entrepreneurship, Green News
Rob Smart

Pro Food stands apart in its efforts to revitalize the entrepreneurial side of the American food system, with the express purpose of reestablishing the link between food and source, bringing together eaters and farmers in new, innovative ways.

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The Revolution Will Not Be (Petrochemically) Fertilized

Kerry Trueman | Posted 08.03.2009 | Green

Read More: Epa, Endocrine Disruptors, Slow Food, Woodbridge Winery, Nicholas Kristof, Will Allen, Stephen Colbert, Roger Doiron, Josh Viertel, Green News
Kerry Trueman

Growing tomatoes has replaced throwing tomatoes as a form of protest; millions of Americans are looking to opt out of our toxic food chain by trying to grow some of their own food this year.

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Stop Hyperliving and Start Enjoying Living

Dr. Susan Corso | Posted 06.03.2009 | Living

Read More: Enjoy Life Movement, Jim Carrey, Mass Pike, Nature, Slow Food, Visions Medical Center, Slow Sex, Route 90, Spirituality & Health, Yes Man, Living News
Dr. Susan Corso

Last week, whilst driving to my new gig at Visions Medical Center, I was traversing the Mass Pike, Route 90 West, when a State Patrolman appeared in m...

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Kill Your Microwave, I Dare Ya

Jerusha Klemperer | Posted 04.26.2009 | Style

Read More: Slow Food, Alice Waters, 60 Minutes, Cooking, Microwaves, Style News
Jerusha Klemperer

People were so excited about ye olde heating box, they were buying cookbooks about how you could cook everything in the microwave. Ever tried to cook a chicken in a microwave? Blech.

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American Cheese Mongers: the New Curds on the Block

Flora Lazar | Posted 02.27.2009 | Style

Read More: France, Bocuse D'Or, Slow Food, Sustainable Food, Paul Bocuse, Cheese, Sustainability, Herve Mons, Artisan Cheese, Murray's Cheese, French Cuisine, Wisconsin Cheese, Caseus, Daniel Boulud, New York Cheese, Jean Georges, French Laundry, Sirha, Thomas Keller, Food Matters, American Cheese, Eating Matters, Food, Style News
Flora Lazar

Time to show that the artisan cheese industry in the US is more than a lot of hot air from the Slow Food and sustainable agriculture movements.

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My Foodie Idol Anthony Bourdain Gives My Green Foodie Idol Alice Waters the Foie Gras Bird

Waylon Lewis | Posted 02.23.2009 | Green

Read More: Farmers' Market, Slow Food, Whole Foods, Local Food, Foie Gras, Green, Environment, Alice Waters, Foodie, Poor, Eco, Anthony Bourdain, Rich, Victory Garden, Video, Green News
Waylon Lewis

Don't denigrate our Alice Waters, Tony -- she is the real thing.

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The Chopsticks Diet: People Used to Just Call it "Eating"

Disgrasian | Posted 02.15.2009 | Style

Read More: Fad Diets, Slow Food, Diets, Asian Cuisine, Kimiko Barber, Dieting, Chopsticks Diet, Asian Food, Eating, The Chopsticks Diet, Chopsticks, Diet, Diet Plans, Stating the Obvious, Food, Style News
Disgrasian

The Chopstick Diet is such an outrageous example of selling a "concept" that has been going on for thousands of years in certain parts of the world, only up until now, it was called "eating."

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Slow Food, Slow Blog... Slow Sex?

Ethan Imboden | Posted 01.15.2009 | Style

Read More: Philosophy, Tantric Sex, Mcdonalds, Slow Food, Slow Sex, Slow Travel, Sexual Relationships, Slow Movement, Love, South Park, Yoga, Ed Young, Twitter, Relationships, Pleasure, Porn, Pornography, Youporn, Sex, Slow Blog, New York Times, Tantra, Jimmyjane, Orgasm, Style News
Ethan Imboden

I'm suggesting that we shamelessly co-opt the Slow Food mission, bending it to the service of our more prurient predilections.

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Community Kitchens A Lot More Than Free Food

Graham Hill | Posted 04.15.2009 | Green

Read More: Slow Food, Eating Locally, Community Supported Agriculture, Green Living, Community Kitchens, Soup Kitchen, Green News
Graham Hill

Economists are predicting zero growth next year...if an Obama stimulus plan works! Which means community kitchens will be more important than ever for...

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Stirring The Pot With The Women's Food Movement

Marguerite Manteau-Rao | Posted 12.29.2008 | Green

Read More: Women, Slow Food, Michael Pollan, The Women's Food Movement, Carlo Petrini, Food, Omnivore's Dilemma, Twitter, Obama, Community Organizing, Alice Waters, Organics, Green News
Marguerite Manteau-Rao

(cross-post from La Marguerite blog) One casual comment made by a girlfriend during a recent dinner at my house, got me thinking, deep, about women, ...

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Ethical Chocolate Worth Craving

Josie Garthwaite | Posted 12.15.2008 | Green

Read More: Sustainable Food, Slow Food Movement, Sustainable Agriculture, Green Living, Fair Trade Chocolate, Slow Food, Taste Test, Organic Food, Eating Matters, Chocolate, Green Valentine's Day, Environment, Valentine's Day, New York Times, Food, Artisan, Dark Chocolate, Sierra Club, Cocoa, Fair Trade, Green News
Josie Garthwaite

But chocolate made with an eye to its social and environmental impact needn't taste virtuous, as Sierra Club staffers recently found out.

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Sandorkraut Reports from Terra Madre

Sandor Ellix Katz | Posted 12.05.2008 | Style

Read More: Wild Fermentation, Slow Food, Organic Food, Politics of Food, Sustainable Food, Food Politics, Food, Terra Madre, Youth Food Movement, Fair Trade, Style News
Sandor Ellix Katz

I'm home from Turin, in northwestern Italy, where I attended Terra Madre, a 4-day gathering of farmers, fermenters, food transformers, cooks, food researchers, and writers from 154 countries.

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Seasonal Cooking: Tips from a Green Chef

Josie Garthwaite | Posted 11.16.2008 | Green

Read More: Healthy Eating, Slow Food, Lifestyle, Eating Matters, Sustainable Food, Nutrition, Cooking, Green, Food, Green Living, Green News
Josie Garthwaite

Chef Karen Jurgensen learned the tools of her trade in forward-thinking restaurants and catering kitchens in the 1980s. She now advocates for local food in restaurants and teaches folks how to craft seasonal menus.

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10 Ways to Go Green and Save Cash -- No Excuses

Maura Judkis | Posted 11.14.2008 | Green

Read More: Gas Prices, Money, Bicycling, Green Living, Saving Money, Consumer Spending, Locavore, Recession, Flexitarianism, Slow Food, Home Cooking, Freeganism, Utility Costs, Freecycle, Save Money, Personal Finance, Ways to Save Gas, Money Saving, Green News
Maura Judkis

Right now, consumers across the country are looking for ways to cut back. Luckily, some of the best ways to save money are also simple steps toward living a little greener.

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