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Headline	Author	Published	Section
Slow Food Fight Ruminations on food, class, and Carlo Petrini	Tom Philpott	07 Jun 2007	Victual Reality
"America is the only country that went from barbarism to decadence without civilization in between," Oscar Wilde once quipped. Fresh, yes, but is it affordable? Photo: Ferry Plaza Farmers' Market Such observations didn't always endear him to Victorian-era Americans. Wilde's 1881 lecture tour of the United States, while ultimately viewed as a triumph, occasionally drew hecklers. This spring, an ...
Topics: farmers markets, food, green living, San Francisco, slow food, Victual Reality (all these topics)

Slow Food nation Crafting a culture of change	Stephanie Paige Ogburn	05 Apr 2007	Gristmill
Yale University students, staff, and other community members crowded a university conference room yesterday to watch Erika Lesser, director of Slow Food USA, give a talk on the Slow Food movement in America. Lesser spoke pretty generally about Slow Food USA's goals, philosophy, and achievements. The talk was interesting in itself, but there were two aspects that I found particularly significant: Lesser made some very interesting connections between Slow F ...
Topics: food, green living, slow food (all these topics)

Back to the Garden Two new photo books focus on food	Tom Philpott	09 Feb 2006	Arts and Minds
In the valuable new book Fields of Plenty: A Farmer's Journey in Search of Real Food and the People Who Grow It, author Michael Ableman rambles across the country in a VW van, visiting small-scale farmers to talk with them at the table and in the field. Vine and dandy. Photo: Chrissi Nerantzi. Not surprisingly, he encounters an array of colorful characters, including Bob Cannard, a celebrated Northern California mic ...
Topics: agriculture, books, food, green living, recipes, slow food, sustainable ag (all these topics)

In Farm's Way Sustainable-ag legend Joel Salatin can farm -- but can he write?	Tom Philpott	29 Nov 2005	Arts and Minds
Over the past 20 years, Joel Salatin has emerged as a sort of guru of the sustainable-food movement. His 500-acre Polyface Farm in Swoope, Va., is legendary among a small circle of foodies for its robustly flavored beef, pork, chicken, and eggs. Among farmers, Salatin has won cult status for his innovations in multi-species, pasture-based animal husbandry. But readers of his new book, Holy ...
Topics: agriculture, food, green living, local food, slow food, sustainable ag (all these topics)

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