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ARTICLES – ABOUT SLOW FOOD (National & International)

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Newspaper, Magazine and Interview Formats – Print and Online

• February 5, 2007 Slow Food USA’s "The Food Chain"

  "March of the Chefs" — "The Terra Madre chefs are marching for Slow Food Nation this March! Throughout the month of March 2007, many chefs who attended Terra Madre will be holding special benefit dinners in their restaurants to share their Terra Madre experiences. The 40 participating chefs are scattered across the country in Georgia, Washington, DC, Oregon, Maine, Wisconsin, Colorado, Pennsylvania, Illinois, California and New York! A portion of proceeds will go towards Slow Food Nation, a four–day celebration planned for May 1–4, 2008 in San Francisco.

  Check the Slow Food USA website later this month [February, 2007] for more information on March of the Chefs, including a full list of participating restaurants and dates. If you are a chef interested in signing up, please send [Slow Food USA] an email!"

  Slow Food Members receive "The Food Chain" monthly directly from Slow Food USA. For more information on becoming a Member, please visit the Slow Food Utah Membership page.

• January 26, 2007 Congressional Quarterly (CQ) Researcher volume 17–4

  "Slow Food Movement — Can It Change Eating Habits?"

  A 24 page article about Slow Food! (requires purchase)

  "The Slow Food movement began more than 20 years ago with a protest against the opening of the first McDonald’s in Rome. Today there are 300 McDonald’s in the ancient city, and the campaign to elbow out fast food has grown into an international movement with adherents in more than 140 countries. Initiated by young Italian leftists who appreciated their country’s regional cooking, the movement has focused on preserving endangered foods, promoting local cooking traditions and farming without polluting. Recently, its increasingly political rhetoric blames industrialized agriculture and the fast–food industry for environmental degradation and the loss of biodiversity as well as the waning of good, healthy eating. Amid growing concern about rising rates of childhood obesity in the West, some school systems have responded by switching to local, fresh ingredients. But critics say Slow Food’s message is just for rich gourmets and doesn’t appreciate modern agriculture’s higher yields and lowered food costs."

  Sections within the article include: "The Issues – Background: The Brothers McDonald, Rise of Slow Food, and From Organic to Gourmet – Current Situation: Subsidy Reform, Junk Food in Schools, and New Legislation – Outlook: Scrapple Anyone?"

  (This article was mentioned in the February, 2007 edition of The Food Chain, a publication for members of Slow Food USA.)

• December 6, 2006 The Lake Oswego Review "Soaking Up the Flavors of the World in Turin" by Barb Randall.

  "Laura Masterson spent a week amidst turmeric producers from Erode, India; sea salt producers from Castro Marin, Portugal; reindeer breeders from Magadan, Russia; raisin producers from Herat; bario rice growers from Malaysia; and breeders of Ragusano donkeys — the head count of delegates was upwards of 5,000 people at this world conference."

• Terra Madre in the News:
• "Gathering to Celebrate Food the Old, Slow Way" by Kim Severson, The New York Times, 11/1/06. (requires registration)
• "Slow Food Movement has Global Outreach" by Carol Ness, San Francisco Chronicle, 10/30/06.
• "Turin Fair Draws Farmers, Gourmets in the Name ’Slow Food’ by Hugo Miller, Bloomberg, 10/30/06.
• September 11, 2006 — The Nation: The Food Issue – "Wake Up, America! Pay Attention to What You Eat!"

  Webmasters’ Note: "The Food Issue" includes eleven articles of great interest to those in the Slow Food Movement.

  "A special food issue under the guidance of Chez Panisse founder Alice Waters." [The Nation] "discovered that the “slow food values” she espouses are in harmony with our own. As she explains, “the pleasures of the table are a social as well as a private good,“ and as such they beget responsibilities—responsibilities that our fast–food system, as currently configured, simply cannot meet. Waters assembled a forum of leading figures in the world of food to consider how this system should be changed."

  "In keeping with the spirit of the forum, this issue, The Nation’s first (though we hope not last) on food, seeks not only to expose but to inspire. Thus, while there are articles investigating the grueling labor conditions on organic farms and in meat packing plants, others explore how food justice activists are working to shift Harlem’s food consciousness and change the nature of school lunch. Linking many of the pieces—on subjects ranging from Wal–Mart to world hunger—is the theme of access to good, healthy food: How can it be democratized? As several of [the] articles attest, a veritable movement is arising to address this issue, which has all the more currency with the recent mainstreaming of the organic food industry..."

• The Nation Home > Subject Directory > Health, Science & Environment > Food & Nutrition: Contains all eleven articles from "The Food Issue." Additionally, there are a few other articles previously published in The Nation on related topics.