Late last month, a varied group of writers, scholars, and labor activists gathered in Portland for a panel discussion on labor, food, and immigration policy. Among the panelists were Larry Kleinman, Secretary-Treasurer for PCUN; Mary Mendez, Deputy Director of Enlace; and Paul Apostolidis and Aaron Bobrow-Strain, both authors and professors at Whitman College. While the [...]

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We’re a few days into 2010, and it’s time to start taking stock of just how exactly we’ll all hold true to our New Year’s resolutions. Maybe you swore to cook more foods from scratch. Maybe you resolved to raise a larger garden this year. Whatever new food promises you made, it’s always helpful to [...]

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“Here at Slow Food we have delighted in watching Douglas Gayeton’s growing body of work documenting the slow lives of farmers and ordinary people. These photographs are rich and undeniably authentic, and could only have been made by someone with a deep sensitivity and understanding that goes beyond the boundaries of nations and languages, and [...]

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This Friday, Saturday, and Sunday, we hope that you’ll join us in the audience for the Portland premiere of Ingredients, a new film about our current food system, and how we can get back to its healthier, tastier roots. It’s a very Portland story that not only chronicles the nationwide issues affecting the way we [...]

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Slow Food Portland continues its artistic exploration of food with WORD, a special exhibit/collaboration with the Interstate Firehouse Cultural Center and the upcoming Wordstock literary convention. Wordstock is the largest gathering of writers and readers in the Pacific Northwest and this year the festival opens the book on food writing. To get you in the [...]

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Bar Tender | San Antonio, TX | 1-Person Household | Goes to sleep at 8AM and wakes up at 4PM daily. | 2008
This Wednesday, join Slow Food Portland and Ampersand Vintage Gallery for the first of our upcoming food-and-art events. Photographer Mark Menjivar has traveled across America, taking pictures of the insides of people’s [...]

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Even after two straight weeks of Pedalpalooza “bike fun,” you can still count on Portlanders to hop on the bikes and come out for an early morning ride. Last Sunday, with a group of 30 cyclists, Slow Food Portland hit the streets of Northeast to see what was growing in our neighbor’s backyards. And, if [...]

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If you weren’t able to catch the sneak preview screening of Food, Inc. in late April, now is your chance to see the film and to make your ticket price work towards real, local change! On Tuesday, June 23 at 7:00 pm, Cinema 21 will host a special “pack the theater” fundraiser for Slow Food [...]

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What is this “oneness,” you ask? It’s community, it’s participation, it’s equality, it’s tradition, and it’s environmental awareness. Frankly, it has a lot in common with our mission here at Slow Food. And it’s also the guiding principle of the Global Oneness Project, an initiative to promote meaningful change in our world by documenting and [...]

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From filmmaker Robert Kenner, with the help of Eric Schlosser and Michael Pollan, comes an unflinching exposé of our industrial food system. Food, Inc. takes a pointed look at the large agribusiness corporations who, with the virtual consent of the FDA and USDA, have created a nationwide health crisis, allowed alarmingly regular outbreaks of food [...]

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