As August approaches, the buzz around Slow Food Nation is steadily building. On Tuesday, the New York Times ran an article on the event and its potential to expand the reach of Slow Food’s message. While the author does spend a lot of time addressing the old chestnut critiques of Slow Food as an elitist [...]

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This coming Sunday, the Lents International Farmers Market will kick off this season’s monthly celebration days with an Eastern European Day Celebration. What sets this market festival apart, however, is that the Lents Market has made a commitment to the ethnic communities of Portland right in their own neighborhood. Lents encompasses a large community of [...]

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The Willamette Valley Food Community delegates to Terra Madre 2008 share a love for Oregon’s agricultural products and land, a passion for the food we eat and an enthusiasm for making food good, clean, and fair. They include a farmer turned chef, a chef turned educator, chefs who buy from farmers, farmers who welcome chefs [...]

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We know - we have yet to write about Slow Food Nation. We’ve certainly spent enough time excitedly reviewing the events line-up to have something to say, but it is a daunting event to begin to cover (after all, it is being billed as the “largest celebration of American food in history”). It feels like [...]

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