Slow Food

The Pig Opens in Logan Circle for a Snout-to-Tail Small Plates Feast (PHOTOS)

Erin Ruberry | Posted 05.21.2012

Read More: DC Restaurants, Logan Circle, The Pig Logan Circle, The Pig DC, The Pig, Pig Dc, DC Dining, Pork, Slideexpand, Pig, EatWell DC, Logan Circle Restaurants, Farm to Table, Slow Food, Eat Local, Local Food, Sustainability, Sustainable Dining, DC News
Erin Ruberry

Yes, you're going to see a lot of pork. But fear not, vegetarians and non-porkers. There's plenty here for you, too. But if there was ever a reason to hop off the vegetarian train for the night ("Hi, my name is Erin and I'm a vegetarian... 98 percent of the time."), it's at The Pig.

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Mobile Slaughterhouses Help Meat Go Local

Katherine Gustafson | Posted 05.14.2012

Read More: San Juan Islands, Sustainable Food, Butchering, Lopez Island, TriVan Truck Body, Tyson, Lopez Island Farm, National Beef Packing Co., Cargill, Meat, Slow Food, Washington State, Slaughter, Bruce Dunlop, Sustainability, Food, Swift and Co., Local Meat, Meat Industry, Eat Local, Local Food, Food News
Katherine Gustafson

The meat industry, like much else in U.S. agriculture, has consolidated rapidly over the last half-century. Four giant companies produced 83.5 percent of U.S. beef as of 2007. It is in this context that the mobile slaughterhouse makes local slaughter available and affordable to small farmers.

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A Week In The Life Of Slow Food President Josh Viertel

Posted 04.25.2012

Read More: Slow Food USA, Slow Food, Food Informants, Slidepollajax, Josh Viertel, Food News

Food Informants is a week-in-the-life series profiling fascinating people in the food world. We hope it will give you a first-hand look at the many di...

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Fungi Farmer Grows Mushrooms for Slow Food, Medicine, Bioremediation (VIDEO)

Kirsten Dirksen | Posted 05.21.2012

Read More: Mushrooms, Fungi, Mycelia, Bioremediation, Paul Stamets, Mushroom Farmer, Medicinal Food, Organic Farmer, Far West Fungi, Slow Food, Moss Landing, Organic Food, Mycelium, Oil Spill Cleanup, Fungi Farmer, Healing Food, Ian Garrone, Farmer, Mycoremediation, San Francisco, Organic Mushrooms, Mycelium Running, Video, Food News
Kirsten Dirksen

Can mushrooms save the world?

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5 Elegant Dishes With Simple Ingredients

Marcus Samuelsson | Posted 05.01.2012

Read More: Slidepollajax, Food, Food Republic, Marcus Samuelsson, Recipes, Slow Food, Grapefruit, Eat Local, Cauliflower, Seasonal Food, Brussels Sprouts, Sweet Potatoes, Winter Recipes, Pears, KitchenDaily News
Marcus Samuelsson

2012-03-02-Screenshot20120301at7.02.06PM.jpgLearning to tweak and enhance just a few ingredients and flavor combinations can help you transform those ordinary ingredients into the extraordinary!

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An Egg, Is an Egg, Is an Egg. Except It's Not.

Cara Rosaen | Posted 04.25.2012

Read More: Healthy Food, Slow Food, Farming, Eat Local, Green Movement, Organic Food, Farms, Local Food, Organic Food Movement, Agriculture, Sustainable Agriculture, Organics, Real Time Farms, Sustainability, realtimefarms.com, Food News
Cara Rosaen

We assume our food system has somehow taken care of itself. The aisles of perfectly aligned boxes, and perfectly stacked produce reflect a system where a tomato is a tomato is a tomato, or an egg is an egg is an egg. Food is a commodity and it's all the same. But it's not.

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Local Urban Farms In Hot Water Over Alleged Treatment Of Animals

| Posted 04.16.2012

Read More: Slow Food, Animal Slaughter, Urban Farms Oakland, San Francisco Farms, Urban Farms, Urban Farms Sf, Urban Farms San Francisco, San Francisco Farming, Urban Farms Bay Area, Farm to Table, Urban Farming, Animal Slaughter Urban Farms, San Francisco News

This article comes to us courtesy of SF Weekly's SFoodie. By Jonathan Kauffman If you go to farmers' markets in the East Bay, you may have seen ...

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The Prince's Speech

Laurie David | Posted 04.15.2012

Read More: Slow Food, Laurie David, Real Food, Prince Charles, Slow Food Movement, Future of Food, The Prince's Speech, Food News
Laurie David

Last spring, right on the heels of one of the biggest events in his life, his son's wedding -- and with the eyes of the world upon his family -- Prince Charles came to the United States to deliver a speech at Georgetown University about the future of food.

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In Organic We Trust

Kip Pastor | Posted 04.10.2012

Read More: Whole Foods, Video, In Organic We Trust, Organic Food, Organics, Organic, Slow Food, Healthy Eating, Healthy Food, Eat Local, Local Food, Organic Food Movement, Slow Food Movement, Organic Movement, Green News
Kip Pastor

The organic food movement is a great cause and it has become big business. Now the question is whether we will allow this well-intentioned movement, started by farmers who strived to be stewards of the land, to completely degenerate into a meaningless food trend.

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Slow Food Is New York's Fast Food too!

Monika Mitchell | Posted 04.07.2012

Read More: Slow Food, Union Square Farmer's Market, Slow Food USA, Three Squares, Slow Food Movement, Green Market, Ny Restaurant Week, New York News
Monika Mitchell

We definitely love our "slow food" in New York -- we just love to get it fast and eat it on the run!

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First-hand Food: Aiming for Self-sufficient? Do the Math.

Tamar Haspel | Posted 04.01.2012

Read More: Chickens, Gardening, Calories, Self-Sufficiency, Homesteading, Slow Food, Hunting, Foraging, Food News
Tamar Haspel

If you're not growing, raising, hunting, foraging, or fishing your own food, you're behind the curve. Chickens and gardens, pigs and turkeys, rods and guns, are all showing up at the homes of what used to be milquetoast supermarket shoppers.

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Slow Cooking: Maidu Indian Style

Carole Carson | Posted 03.26.2012

Read More: Healthy Eating, Slow Food, Recipes, Cooking, Slow Food Movement, Acorns, Maidu Indian Food, Banana Muffin Recipe, Fast Food, Obesity, Child Obesity, Banana Acorn Muffin Recipe, Food News
Carole Carson

As I gathered and shelled acorns under our tree, it was easy to imagine Maidu women in the same place, doing the same thing many years ago. It gave me a great feeling of kinship with the Native Americans.

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Counting On Every Acre

Leah Mayor | Posted 03.23.2012

Read More: Slow Food, American Farmland, Wholesome Wave, American Agriculture, Leah Mayor, Slow Food USA, Working Lands Alliance, American Farmland Trust, Sustainable Foods, Farmland, Common Ground, Green News
Leah Mayor

Even with a surge of interest in "local food" and its central relationship to individual, community and global health, somehow it remains difficult for many of us to make the connection between the food we eat and the land that is required to grow it.

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How To Use Your Slow Cooker Like A Pro

Big Girls, Small Kitchen | Posted 03.19.2012

Read More: Family Food, Slow Food, Home Cooking, College Eating, Cheap, Slow Cooking, Crock Pot, Slidepollajax, Budget Food, Beans, Meat, Slow Cooker, Dutch Oven, Recipe Collection, Recipes, KitchenDaily News
Big Girls, Small Kitchen

Slow-cooked food gets incredibly tasty, tough meats to grow rich and soft, and soups come away with extraordinary flavor. You have to plan ahead, but you get to do less work at the last minute.

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Exporting Slow Food by Importing a Restaurant

Michael_Schwartz | Posted 03.05.2012

Read More: What Is Slow Food, Slow Food, Farm-to-Table, Local Food, Local Ingridients, Farm to Table, Slow Food Movement, Cayman Islands, Miami News
Michael_Schwartz

You're probably tired of hearing people preach about how a product is sourced at its freshest when grown nearby. But for me, although counterintuitive, an import hundreds of miles away can be good for local food, too.

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A Dog Dominated Weekend In Newport, RI

Joseph Satto | Posted 02.04.2012

Read More: Slow Food, Eating Locally, Pet-Friendly Hotels, Rhode Island, Newport, Locally Grown Food, Travel News
Joseph Satto

It was just us and our mildly injured canine companion.

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Cooking With An Axe

McKay Jenkins | Posted 02.11.2012

Read More: Slow Food, Healthy Eating, Cooking Over a Fire, Fracking, Local Food, Cooking, Health, Environment, Food, Chopping Wood, Wood Stoves, Food News
McKay Jenkins

Cooking can be much more than merely completing an onerous task. It can offer moments of fulfillment, glimpses of deeper meaning, a connection to old, even ancient traditions. To me, that seems like a pretty good return for a bit more effort.

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Occupy Your Kitchen!

Kurt Michael Friese | Posted 12.27.2011

Read More: Slow Food, Farming, Farms, Cooking, Agriculture, Food Democracy Now!, Food, Big Ag, Food and Water Watch, Chefs Collaborative, Occupy, Adm, Monsanto, Tyson, Food News
Kurt Michael Friese

What we have is not just a food problem in this country, but a cooking problem. Food marketers have been working for decades to convince people that cooking is a chore.

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Take Back the Value Meal: Slow Food for the Price of Fast Food

Jerusha Klemperer | Posted 10.25.2011

Read More: Slow Food, Fast Food, Budget, Cost of Living, Slow Food Movement, Farmers Markets, Value-Menu, $5 Challenge, Food News
Jerusha Klemperer

We're all stressed about money and we're all stressed about time. And yet every day there are people all over the country who find a way to cook healthy food on a budget.

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King Of The Farmer's Markets!

2011-03-16-Screenshot20110316at9.39.25AM.jpeg | Posted 10.09.2011

Read More: Farmer's Markets, Slow Food, California Farmers, Sustainable Cooking, California Farmer's Markets, Farmers, America Farmer's Market, Sustainability, San Francisco News

This article comes to us courtesy of California Watch. By Joanna Lin The number of farmers markets in California grew 25.7 percent last year, ma...

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Rock the Eco-Kasbah in Morocco

Karin Kloosterman | Posted 09.07.2011

Read More: Green Prophet, Slow Food, Eco-Travel, Morocco, North Africa, Kasbah Du Toubkal, Berber, Green News
Karin Kloosterman

Built by a British-Berber partnership and hugged by one of the most stunning vistas you can imagine, the Kasbah du Toubkal is an absolute must in Morocco.

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If The White House Garden Grew Subsidized Crops

Posted 08.01.2011

Read More: Kitchen Gardeners, Slow Food, Food and Farm Bill, White House Garden, Subsidy Garden, Food News

The image below details what the White House Garden would look like if it was planted with subsidized crops from the Food and Farm Bill (via Slow Food...

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Food Fight: Why Congress and Obama's Proposed Budget Cuts Are the Wrong Move for Colorado

Sam Schabacker | Posted 07.31.2011

Read More: Slow Food, Food, Subsidies, Food Recalls, Food and Water Watch, Budget Cuts, Senator Bennet, Meat Inspectors, Agriculture, Fda, Agriculture-Reform, Agricultural Subsidies, Denver News
Sam Schabacker

These cuts are not solutions to our budget crises, nor will they mend our broken food system. Rather, they are ideological prescriptions that will do nothing but further enrich corporate agribusiness.

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A New Paradigm? Now Serving: A Nice Dose of Healthy and a Healthy Dose of Nice

Neil Zevnik | Posted 07.19.2011

Read More: Healthy Eating, Slow Food, Santa Monica, LA Restaurants, Organic Food, Healthy Food, La Healthy Restaurants, Dr. Andrew Weil, La Organic Food, True Food Kitchen, Los Angeles News
Neil Zevnik

This is the new face of chain restaurants: individual concepts, adapted to specific locales and audiences, with none of the anonymous mediocrity that made "chain" a dirty word in epicurean circles.

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Slow Food, Caribbean Style

Joseph Satto | Posted 06.21.2011

Read More: Slow Food, Organic Farming, Organic Gardening, Local Food, Locavore, Antigua, Slow Food Movement, Hermitage Bay, Hermitage Bay Antigua, Food News
Joseph Satto

Discovering Hermitage Bay in Antigua shattered a few preconceived notions I held about the slow food movement. I assumed it primarily preached in our little urban bubbles. I'm happy to say, I was dead wrong.

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