A Week In The Life Of Slow Food President Josh Viertel
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...
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...
Monika Mitchell | Posted 04.07.2012
We definitely love our "slow food" in New York -- we just love to get it fast and eat it on the run!
Leah Mayor | Posted 03.23.2012
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.
Jerusha Klemperer | Posted 03.21.2012
This duality of sustainable food advocates on one end and industrial food giants on the other shows the growing power of each of the poles of our food system.
Ellen Kanner | Posted 12.17.2011
You can help meet every one of Food Day's goals with one single choice -- eat less meat. Jobs, health, education, the environment and ethics all converge at the end of our forks.
Ellen Kanner | Posted 11.12.2011
Long before fast food's so-called value meal, we had real ones. We cooked with the ingredients at hand, with what we could get.
Ellen Kanner | Posted 11.05.2011
You want to be treated right on the job and you deserve to be. So do the people who grow our food.
Edible | Posted 11.02.2011
Listen to this podcast on Edible Radio. Smart Food is the Edible Radio podcast hosted by Jane Black. Jane's guest for this episode is Josh Viertel,...
Wesley Epplin | Posted 05.25.2011
Where will your next slice of apple pie come from? What if it came from apples you've never tasted before that were grown in your city? In Chicago, this hypothetical could soon be a reality.
Dan Imhoff | Posted 05.25.2011
The cheap calorie delivery system -- funded for the past few decades through both the Farm Bill and the Child Nutrition Act -- has become a key player in the Supersizing of our kids.
Deborah Lehmann | Posted 05.25.2011
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.
Kerry Trueman | Posted 05.25.2011
Cars and fast food are partners in crime when it comes to undermining America's health. But our landscape is changing; Automotive High School in Brooklyn is now part of Slow Food NYC's Harvest Time program.
Kurt Michael Friese | Posted 05.25.2011
Think of an Eat-In as the marriage of the traditional picnic to the classic activism of the 1960's Sit-Ins; this is old-fashioned activism with a hot dish to share.
Wesley Epplin | Posted 05.25.2011
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.
Grist | Posted 05.25.2011
A recent federal mandate required that every school district write and implement a "Wellness Policy" that addressed, among other things, the epidemic ...
Ellen Kanner | Posted 05.25.2011
Remember school lunch? Mystery meatloaf? Slimy spaghetti? Vegetables so gray and overcooked it was impossible to imagine they started life fresh? ...
Jerusha Klemperer | Posted 05.25.2011
The National School Lunch Program provides a meal to 30 million children every school day. Right now it is a sad mirror of the broken food system outside the school walls.
Cathy Erway | Posted 05.25.2011
On top of an industrial building overlooking the East River in Brooklyn sits the 6,000 square foot urban farm.
GOOD Magazine | Posted 11.17.2011
What does a $20 donation do for Slow Food? A $20 donation helps us identify one more person who gives a damn about good food. In a lot of ways Slow Fo...
Posted 04.25.2012