This morning in the New York Times, author Andrew Beahrs contributed an op-ed piece on the vanishing place of wild foods on the American holiday table. Invoking Mark Twain and the original pilgrims, he recounts the local diversity that once graced our meals and the gradual shift towards sameness and domestication. I do have a [...]
Entries from November 2008
Wild Holidays
November 26th, 2008 · No Comments
Adding chairs to the table
November 21st, 2008 · 2 Comments
The panelists involved in last night’s inaugural food labor event offered us sobering perspectives on agricultural workers, as well as hopeful and heartfelt encouragement to continue advocating about these issues. Food labor is an issue that should be important to all eaters, but it is one that can be intimidating to address. Nevertheless, it is [...]
Food deserts
November 17th, 2008 · No Comments
As we get ready to launch our series of events on fair food labor, it is important to remember the other aspect of the “fair” commitment in Slow Food’s mission: fair access to food.
On Sunday, The Oregonian devoted an article to the disparities between neighborhood access to grocery stores around Portland. Even in our town, [...]
Dear Mr. President…
November 10th, 2008 · No Comments
Barack Obama may just be the most popular man in America right now. After all, if you were President-Elect, don’t you think that you too would have people lined up for a chance to voice their ideas for the coming administration? Shrewdly, the next President has already set up a website where citizens can write [...]
The People Who Feed Us: Local, Small-Farm Labor
November 10th, 2008 · 3 Comments
Last week, we mentioned the exciting progress being made in this country to bring about a broader awareness of food issues. But despite the increase in press and the New York Times’ coverage of food politics, food labor (both as a subject and a population) remains largely excluded from the discussion. It’s time to bring [...]
Terra Madre Dispatches
November 5th, 2008 · No Comments
* * Updated 11/14
Terra Madre has concluded and attendees are just beginning to process everything they experienced. Once our delegates have returned (and caught their breath), we hope they’ll share their stories with us. In the meantime, we’ve collected some of the events coverage for you to get sense of all that happened this year [...]
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