The Slow Food Movement: A Break from life in the fast lane.
So I’ve been using this term ‘slow food’ as my basis for talking about a lot of the ideas on this site. What exactly is slow food? And why is it so important to me? Well, The Slow Food Movement was...
View ArticleHomegrown Education
Has all this talk about pesticides and genetically modified seeds killed your appetite for the commerically produced stuff?? Good. You are now ready to start considering the many alternatives to your...
View ArticleFear Not: Raw Milk Cheese
Since the 1940s the FDA prohibited production/importation of any raw milk cheese that hadn’t been aged at least 60 days. Why? Well…because raw milk chese is unpasteurized (heated above 140 Degrees)...
View ArticleFair Trade Food: Bohemian Trend or Sustainable Solution?
Free Trade for All? We’ve all been to our neighborhood coffee shops and seen the “Fair-Trade, no pesticide, organic yadda yadda yadda” but how many consumers actually understand what Fair Trade even...
View ArticleDinner with Scott Kennedy: Director of “The Garden”
Last night I was priviledged enough to have dinner with documentarian, Scott Kennedy, director of the Oscar nominated documentary, “The Garden.” His film is a moving piece about the creation and...
View Article‘Going Green’ in a Brown Economy: A Restaurant’s Nightmare?
Living in Los Angeles during the ‘Age of Going Green’ has put me in the center of the battle between the sustainable folk and those to get off on using styrofoam (zombie food to go!) Unfortunately I...
View ArticleTake it Slow, Face the Food.
Why Slow Food? This non-profit organization has made it a top priority to combat the ways of fast-food and fast life that have completely engulfed modern society… Something that many in the Western...
View ArticleEating Your Pets: The Carbon Pawprint
Thanks to Al Gore and other various scaremongers for global warming (not that it isn’t an imminent issue) we as a society have become well acquainted with the term “Carbon Footprint” as we are...
View ArticleSlow Food Army, Unite!
The moment has arrived, from October 21-25, the biennial (this means once every two years, I looked it up) culmination of everything that the Slow Food movement stands for, Terra Madre and Salone del...
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