Written by Brady Walen, Slow Food Portland Time for Lunch Coordinator & Jen Michaelis Van Arkel, Slow Food Portland Time for Lunch Committee Member
Over the past several months, Slow Food chapters around the country have been promoting the Time for Lunch campaign in an effort to provide children with real food at school. Locally, Slow [...]

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This video has certainly made the rounds on the internet recently, but the message is timely, important, and well-worth sharing again. Here’s the speech British celebrity chef Jamie Oliver’s delivered to TED in February, in which he talks about the need to combat our children’s ignorance about healthy and sustainable eating:

While here in the states [...]

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For Slow Food Portland’s upcoming Labor Day Picnic with the Time-Based Art Festival, we’re lucky enough to not only be partnering with the Portland Institute for Contemporary Art, but also with a collection of excellent Portland-based school lunch advocates. These groups are already working on-the-ground to bring about cafeteria reform, and are a large part [...]

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