Over the past two years, we’ve tried to keep you up-to-date on the Urban and Rural Reserves process for the Metro region, which will determine how rural lands are protected at the edges of our Urban Growth Boundary. As the final votes on Washington County Reserves quickly approach, we share this message from our partners [...]

Read more

Peanuts. Pistachios. Popcorn seasoning. Cookie Dough. Greens. Beef. Beef. Beef. Wide-scale outbreaks of foodborne illness of slammed our country this year, leaving legislators scrambling to come up with an appropriate response. Over the last month or so, we’ve begun to see the first steps towards new regulations and laws, but real change has yet to [...]

Read more

Today, Slow Food USA launches it’s first-ever national policy campaign for school lunch reform. With chapters across the country, we will join together to declare that it’s Time for Lunch, and time for our country to prioritize the overhaul of the Childhood Nutrition Act. Revitalized legislation will address low-income food insecurity and childhood obesity, but [...]

Read more

On Sunday evening, 60 Minutes featured a lengthy segment on Alice Waters and her role as major advocate for Slow Food. To be sure, it is a big step for the mainstream recognition of the food movement, but it hasn’t come without a lot of debate in response. Within hours of the episode airing on [...]

Read more

Patrick Alan Coleman, Food Editor for the Portland Mercury, had a chance this week to interview Bryant Terry about his work and upcoming Slow Food Portland event.
At 35, Terry has fond memories of growing up in Memphis, Tennessee, with grandparents from rural Mississippi who “practically converted their backyard garden into an urban farm—every bit of [...]

Read more

Today’s Oregonian ran a feature article on Slow Food Portland and the gradual evolution of the Slow Food Movement! Including interviews with the Oregon Food Bank, the Community Food Security Coalition, and PCUN, the story outlines a bit of Slow Food’s increasing attention to food justice and our local efforts to partner with the organizations [...]

Read more

Over the years, Slow Food Portland has been really lucky to have been able to bring so many great speakers to Portland. Still, I don’t think we’ve ever had the chance before to bring someone who’s been compared to Melvin Van Peebles and Alice Waters in the same sentence! That’s just part of why we’re [...]

Read more

Whenever people begin to talk about sustainability, a few well-worn narratives always seem to dominate the conversation: namely those of science and economics. But if you look back over the history of environmentalism, many of the strongest (and often first) voices came from the humanities. Think of the poet-philosophers, the artists, and the writers who [...]

Read more

A month has passed since Slow Food Nation, though it already feels like a year has gone by. Such is harvest season. But it’s not time to forgot about the momentum that started at this year’s event; there has continued to be some excellent wrap-up of the events, with an eye towards future iterations. If [...]

Read more

We came, we saw, we tasted Slow Food Nation.

Photos: P. Leonard,
It was a truly amazing weekend, full of energy and creativity and the spirit of collaboration, and it has certainly left us with a lot to chew on. We weren’t able to see or taste everything, but here are a few highlights…
Panel: A New, [...]

Read more