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Headline	Author	Published	Section
Conviviality is its own reward Gathering around a table as environmental advocacy	Kurt Michael Friese	20 Mar 2008	Gristmill
Gazing over the muddy brown expanse that the abating snows finally revealed in mid-March, it has been hard for me to imagine the lush greenery and flavorful bounty that our gardens will yield in just a few short months. But even by the time you read these words, radishes and spinach will have sprouted again. The curly tendrils of spring's first sweet peas will be stretching, aching for a grip on a trellis and an arc of precious sunlight. The warmth will return ...
Topics: food, slow food (all these topics)

15 Green Chefs		26 Jul 2007	Main Dish
Savor our list of eco-conscious chefs, then dish on your own favorites in the comments section at the bottom of the page. Photo: David Sifry via Flickr Alice Waters, Chez Panisse, Berkeley, Calif., U.S. Thirty years ago, the words "imported from France" signified the height of status and taste on U.S. restaurant menus. Today, the phrases "locally grown" and "organic" have taken over that function (naming the actual farm earns extra points) ...
Topics: Alice Waters, food, lists, local food, organic food, slow food (all these topics)

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)

Haste Makes Waste Savor your flavors with the slow-food movement	Roz Cummins	02 May 2007	'Tis the Season
This is the fourth in a series of articles about connecting with people over food. Read others on setting up a dining co-op, celebrating Passover, and hosting an Earth Dinner. When I told a friend that I was writing an article about slow food, she said, "What's that? The opposite of fast food?" In a word, yes. Carlo Petrini. Photo: slowfood.de The first time I heard about the slow-food movement ...
Topics: books, food, recipes, slow food, Tis the Season (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)

Recipe for a Revolution How a cookbook renaissance heated up the sustainable-food movement	Tom Philpott	15 Feb 2007	Victual Reality
In the postmodern United States, a cultural critic laments, "The pleasures of the table are rarely appreciated at face value." ��Speak truth to flour. A near-hysterical concern with health has replaced common sense, he continues, leading to all manner of dubious decisions: "Americans blithely drink sodas filled with artificial flavors and sweeteners, yet paste ...
Topics: agriculture, food, industrial ag, recipes, slow food, Victual Reality (all these topics)

Meet the Lunch Lady Maverick chef Ann Cooper aims to spark a nationwide school-lunch revolution	Tom Philpott	18 Jan 2007	Victual Reality
Even the most intractable pathology can disappear, sometimes relatively quickly. A sign above a water fountain proclaiming "no coloreds" would cause any American to flinch today. Just half a century ago throughout the South, such abominations formed a banal part of the built landscape. Ann Cooper puts a fresh spin on school lunches. Photo: Chronicle/Craig Lee I go ...
Topics: education, food, local food, organic food, slow food, Victual Reality (all these topics)

Elite Eats Locally grown food shouldn't be just for those with cash to spare	Tom Philpott	29 Nov 2006	Victual Reality
As a critic of the globalized industrial food system, I often face charges of elitism -- in part, likely, because I neglect to acknowledge the system's clear achievements. So here goes. In the mood for good food? Look no further than your backyard. Photo: iStockphoto In human history, few pampered Roman emperors or African kings had as easy access to a broad variety of foods as the present-d ...
Topics: agriculture, farmers markets, food, gardening, local food, slow food, sustainable ag, Victual Reality (all these topics)

Reclaiming Thanksgiving America's national feast has seen better days, but remains well worth preserving	Tom Philpott	21 Nov 2006	Victual Reality
In every era the attempt must be made anew to wrest tradition away from a conformism that is about to overpower it. -- Walter Benjamin, "Theses on the Philosophy of History" Eat, drink, and be mindful. Photo: iStockphoto Does Thanksgiving suck? There's certainly a potent case to be made. In a land where communal eating is honored mostly in the breach, ...
Topics: agriculture, food, holiday, slow food, United States, Victual Reality (all these topics)

Snob Appeal Why everyone should be allowed to love food with unrestrained glee	Tom Philpott	08 Nov 2006	Victual Reality
I spend hours at a time in the kitchen, I approach my morning coffee with a quasi-religious fervor, and the attention I grant beer and wine selection can border on the Talmudic. Am I a food snob? Diverse authorities -- including my mother, a certain Grist writer, and several friends -- have claimed as much. Foodies bite. Photo: iStockphoto And while they mean it with affection, their co ...
Topics: agriculture, food, slow food, United Kingdom, United States, Victual Reality (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)

Gobble It Up Three paths toward a green -- and tasty -- Thanksgiving	Tom Philpott	17 Nov 2005	Main Dish
Of all the crimes against nature Thanksgiving inspires -- SUVs clogging the highways, planes shuttling fliers around the country, factory farms churning out millions of frozen turkeys -- the most grievous may be culinary. First, the above-mentioned turkeys typically taste like sawdust; cranberry "sauce," a gelatinous goo that ominously retains the shape of the can it slipped out of, doesn't ...
Topics: Alice Waters, food, holiday, slow food, vegetarianism and veganism (all these topics)

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