Slow Food® Utah

RECENT ADDITIONS

Highlighting recent additions to the Slow Food Utah Website, to make them easier for you to find and thus stay abreast of what has recently been added to this Web–site.

Previous recent additions listings – visit our Recent Additions Archive.

Most Recent at Top

• Articles & News – General Interest — Added:
• "Ingredient Contamination: Human Food Could be at Risk, too, Experts Fear" By Justin Pritchard, The Associated Press. Published by The Salt Lake Tribune, April 24, 2007.
• "Snack Smackdown: High Time to Rethik the Tradition of Spiking Kids’ Events With Junk Food." By Jennifer Barrett. Published by The Salt Lake Tribune, April 24, 2007.
• "You Are What You Grow" By Michael Pollan. Published by The New York Times, April 22, 2007 (Earth Day).
• (Added April 24, 2007.)
• Events – Utah Community — Added: "Food Writing" at the Community Writing Center, at Salt Lake City’s Library Square. Wednesdays, May 2nd, 9th, & 16th, 2007 – 6:00 to 8:00 p.m.
• (Added April 24, 2007.)
• About Slow Food (What Is It?) — Added list of Slow Food USA Advisory Board members.
• (Added April 20, 2007.)
• Projects – Slow Food USA & Global — Added information on Slow Cities and Slow Fish.
• (Added April 20, 2007.)
• Events – Slow Food Utah & Nat’l — Added two guided tours to Italy:
• September 15 – 24, 2007 — "Fourth Annual Slow Food Planet Tour: Tuscany, Piedmont and CHEESE"
• September 20 – 30, 2007 — "ITALY with gastRONomy Rambles©"
• (Added April 20, 2007.)
• Organizations – Utah (NGO) — Updated listing for Mushroom Society of Utah, including new Website location on Yahoo Groups.
• (Added April 19, 2007.)
• Events – Slow Food Utah & Nat’l — Added the Fourth Annual "Slow Food Planet Tour," (Italy) September 16–24, 2007.
• (Added April 18, 2007.)
• Books — Added: "Food Fight: The Citizen’s Guide to a Food and Farm Bill." Published March, 2007.
• (Added April 18, 2007.)
• Take Action! — Updated to include Take Action on the Farm Bill! and Genetically Modified Foods.
• (Added April 18, 2007.)
• Events – Slow Food Utah & Nat’l — Added in the "National" Section: "Slow Food Nation: Why Our Food Should Be Good, Clean and Fair!" – Book Tour — May 2007.
• (Added April 18, 2007.)
• Books — Added: "Slow Food Nation: Why Our Food Should Be Good, Clean and Fair!" – Publication date May 10, 2007.
• (Added April 18, 2007.)
• Streaming Media – Audio & Video — Added in the "General" Section: KPFA (94.1FM) Special Broadcast: "A World of Possibilities" with host Mark Summer. "In the Tractor Seat, Women Farmers Take The Steering Wheel" Broadcast Date: March 31, 2007
• (Added March 31, 2007.)
• Streaming Media – Audio & Video — Added: Hightower Lowdown selected commentaries on food issues.
• (Added March 29, 2007.)
• Organizations – U.S. & Global (NGO) — Added: Center for Food Safety.
• (Added March 29, 2007.)
• Events – Slow Food Utah & Nat’l — Added: Eating Local/ Slow Food, a class offered by the U. of U. Div. of Continuing Education, May 24, 7:00 to 9:00 p.m.  The class will explore the question: "How can you incorporate Utah’s myriad agricultural and artisan food products into your shopping list?"
• (Added March 29, 2007.)
• Articles – About Slow Food Utah — Added: "Hurry Up and Register for Slow–Food Benefit at Alta" Published by The Salt Lake Tribune, March 28, 2007, in the "Food Briefs" section.
• (Added March 28, 2007.)
• Articles & News – General Interest — Added: "Proponents Say Fair–Trade Co–ops Improve Coffee Farmers’ Lives" By Kathy Stephenson. Published by The Salt Lake Tribune, March 28, 2007.
• (Added March 28, 2007.)
• Articles & News – General Interest — Added: "Little Time Left to Dig: Urban Gardeners’ Plot Changes Hands" By Dawn House. Published by The Salt Lake Tribune, March 24, 2007. (Article about sale of land under Wasatch Community Gardens’ Community Garden located at 555 South 400 East in Salt Lake City.)
• (Added March 24, 2007.)
• Articles & News – General Interest — Added: Slow Food Utah News – FamilyFarmed.org EXPO is Chicago’s Premier Local and Organic Food Event
• (Added March 22, 2007.)
• Events – Utah Community — Added: "The Power of Community: How Cuba Survived ‘Peak Oil’," a film by The Community Solution, screening March 30, 2007 at the First Unitarian Church, 569 South 1300 East, Salt Lake City. ("Learn more about Cuba’s transition from large farms or plantations and reliance on fossil–fuel–based pesticides and fertilizers, to small organic farms and urban gardens.")
• (Added March 21, 2007.)
• Articles & News – General Interest — Added: "Purchasing a Share in a Farm’s Produce Offers Many Benefits" By Valerie Phillips. Published by The Deseret Morning News March 21, 2007. (Covers Community Supported Agriculture.)
• (Added March 21, 2007.)
• Events – Slow Food Utah & Nat’l — Added: PayPal payment option to Slow Food Utah/Bad Dog Rediscovers America April 1st Spring Lunch on the Mountain.
• (Added March 20, 2007.)
• Streaming Media – Audio & Video — Added: KUER (90.1FM) "Bite Sized" with host Beth Hoffman

  "A series about food created by producer Beth Hoffman. Hoffman wants us to stop for a moment and think about the environmental, cultural and artistic connections we have to cooking and eating in Utah. She’ll also introduce us to a variety of people who are passionate about food."

• (Added March 19, 2007.)
• Articles & News – General Interest — Added: "$100K in Grants to Help Community Gardens Grow" By Kathy Stephenson. Published by The Salt Lake Tribune, March 19, 2007.

  "The Utah Department of Health recently awarded 10 minigrants – worth a total of $100,000 – to create or enhance community gardens in Salt Lake and Weber counties..."

• (Added March 19, 2007.)
• Streaming Media – Audio & Video — Added:
• NPR’s Food featuring "recipes, interviews and the story behind your favorite foods from Morning Edition, All Things Considered and other award–winning NPR programs."
• NPR’s Hidden Kitchens "An ongoing series exploring the world of hidden kitchens: street–corner cooking, legendary meals and eating traditions... How communities come together through food."
• "Splendid Table" a weekly program of American Public Media with host Lynne Rossetto Kasper.
• (Added March 17, 2007.)
• Take Action ! — Added the Slow Food Utah Take Action ! page as a place for you to visit to learn about actions you can take to make a difference. (Also added a link to the Slow Food USA Take Action! page in our Slow Food USA Projects listing.)
• (Added March 16, 2007.)
• Links Collections — Added: Seeds of Deception Links Page (GMO Issues).
• (Added March 16, 2007.)
• Articles & News – General Interest — Added:

  Articles in Slow Food USA’s March 2007 "The Food Chain" e–Newsletter:

• "Mmmm, Tasty Chemicals: A new book ’deconstructs’ a Twinkie and analyzes all 39 ingredients. Industrial–strength junk food, anyone?" By Anne Underwood. Published by Newsweek March 5, 2007.
• "Risks of Tainted Food Rise as Inspections Drop Amid High–profile Scares, FDA Safety Testing has Fallen by Half Since 2003" By Associated Press. Published by MSNBC. February 26, 2007.
• "Eating Better Than Organic" By By John Cloud. Published by Time in partnership with CNN. March 2, 2007.
• (Added March 16, 2007.)
• Articles & News – General Interest — Added:

  Articles in Slow Food USA’s March 2007 "The Food Chain" e–Newsletter highlighting the 2007 U.S. Farm Bill presently being debated by the U.S. Congress:

• "The Future of Farming" Published by The New York Times, Editorial Desk. February 17, 2007.
• "Shape This Farm Bill for the Future – The Register’s Editorial." Published by The Des Moines Register. February 11, 2007.
• "Living Food: Healthy Reform" Published by Seattle Post–Intelligencer Editorial Board. February 4, 2007.
• (Added March 16, 2007.)
• Books — Added:
• "Twinkie, Deconstructed: My Journey to Discover How the Ingredients Found in Processed Foods Are Grown, Mined (Yes, Mined), and Manipulated into What America Eats" By Steve Ettlinger. Published by Hudson Street Press; March 2007.
• "Seeds of Deception by Jeffrey M. Smith, documents significant health dangers of genetically modified (GM) foods and the intense industry influence and political corruption that allow them on the market."
• "The GMO Trilogy: "A new DVD and CD set produced by best selling author Jeffrey Smith, which shows how genetically modified organisms (GMOs) put our health and environment at risk, may impact consumer perceptions and buying habits."
• "Genetic Roulette – The Documented Health Risks of Genetically Engineered Foods" (April, 2007)
• (Added March 16, 2007.)
• Streaming Media – Audio & Video — Added:
• Section for Organizations producing weekly podcasts relating to food, including: Deconstructing Dinner, KCRW’s weekly program Good Food with host Evan Kleiman,
• RadioActive! on KRCL Progressive Roundtable – Utah Activists Broadcast March 6, 2007. "Brandie is joined by Gavin Noyes from Buy Local First, Matthew Wallace from Slow Food Utah and Carl Fisher from Save Our Canyons.
• (Added March 16, 2007.)
• Recipes — Added: Slow Food Members’ Favorite Winter Recipes Posted March, 2007 in the Slow Food Forum.
• (Added March 15, 2007.)
• Organizations – U.S. & Global (NGO) — Added: Farm and Food Policy Project. A diverse alliance of family farm, sustainable agriculture, rural, public health, anti–hunger, environmental, faith–based, and other groups is forming to inform the 2007 Farm Bill. Includes a link to their Report: "Seeking Balance in U.S. Farm and Food Policy."
• (Added March 15, 2007.)
• Local Restaurants & Dining Guides — Added:
• Savory Cities™ Restaurant Guides, including a link to the Savory Tidbits Blog, featuring "the latest restaurant and video news from Savory New York, Savory San Francisco and Savory Chicago."
• New section featuring Slow Food related or inspired restaurant listings for the United States. (I suspect these will usually tend toward the "big–food" cities such as New York and San Francisco. Providing ideas on restaurants to look into if your are traveling...)
• (Added March 15, 2007.)
• Magazines & Newspapers — Added: Mother Earth News
• (Added March 14, 2007.)
• Articles & News – General Interest — Added:
• "Agriculture: Number of Farms in Utah, Nation Suffers Decline" By Dawn House. Published March 14, 2007 by The Salt Lake Tribune in the "Business Digest" section.
• "Dishing It Out: My Address to the Southern Appalachian Youth on Food Conference" By Tom Philpott. Published March 8, 2007 by Grist, in "Victual Reality – The eco–politics behind your food." ("If we seriously want to rebuild local food systems, we need more farmers.")
• "Cultivating New Farmers" by Jean English. Published by Mother Earth News February/March 2007.
• "Beyond Organic" by Eliot Coleman. Published by Mother Earth News December/January 2001. (The article is at the bottom of the chronological list, but is worth reading for comment on organics controversy.)
• (Added March 14, 2007.)
• Organizations – Utah (NGO) — Added: Utah Food Bank and their Kids Café.
• (Added March 14, 2007.)
• Organizations – U.S. & Global (NGO) — Added: North American Farmers’ Direct Marketing Association.
• (Added March 14, 2007.)
• Farmers’ Markets in Utah — Added: North American Farmers’ Direct Marketing Association.
• (Added March 14, 2007.)
• Events – Utah Community
• Added: April 14, "Pace of Life Fair" at Salt Lake City Public Library.
• Updated: March 31, Lau Family Farm at Caputo’ Winter/Spring Market.
• (Added/Updated March 12, 2007.)
• Events – Slow Food Utah & Nat’l — Added: Slow Food Utah–Slow Food in Schools is participating in the Kid’s Café at Mountain View Elementary School in Salt Lake City, in conjunction with the Utah Food Bank, March 22, 2007.
• (Added March 12, 2007.)
• Volunteer Opportunities — Added:
• April 14, "Pace of Life Fair" at Salt Lake City Public Library.
• March 22, "Kid’s Café" at Mountain View Elementary School.
• May 19, "Springfest 2007" at Red Butte Gardens.
• Starting June 10, Salt Lake "Downtown Farmers’ Market."
• (Added March 12, 2007.)
• Articles & News – General Interest — Added: "Gardening – Kernels of Truth: Stalking the Most Flavorful Corn. It pays to buy local – and here’s why." By Maggie Wolf. Published by The Salt Lake Tribune March 11, 2007.
• (Added March 12, 2007.)
• About Slow Food (What Is It?) — Added: "All About Slow Food – An Overview of the Slow Food Movement," beginning with the founding by Carlo Petrini in Italy in 1986.
• (Added March 12, 2007.)
• The layout of the "Slow Menu" has been re–organized and revised to better accommodate the changes over time in types of information in the Slow Food Utah Website. All of the pages that were present previously are still here, some have been re–named, many have been relocated in the Slow Menu. This is an evolving Website, growing and changing to incorporate information as it is discovered and determined to fit. A labor of love to be sure. The Slow Food Utah Webmaster welcomes your constructive comments and suggestions on these changes. I hope you enjoy this site, and find it beneficial & useful. Thanks for visiting!
• Highlights of some of the changes:
• Re–organized menu items by type, and created new menu categories.
• Added Publications – Slow Food Utah & USA to highlight publications and newsletters by Slow Food Utah and Slow Food USA.
• Grouped organizational listings together, and re–organized pages listing organizations. Now, listing Slow Food Organizations, Non–Governmental Organizations ("NGO") in Utah, National/Global NGO's, and Governmental Organizations. Then, within these groupings, there will be further subdivisions, to make finding organizations easier.
• By the way, the Rainbow Snail now has a family. Can you find the Rainbow Snail Family? (Hint: Look left.)
• (Updated March 12, 2007.)
• Streaming Media (Audio & Video) — Added several Podcasts from KRCL’s "RadioActive!":
• "Food Activism: Beth Rethinks American Ideas About Food" Broadcast Date: February 22, 2007.
• "Big Box Swindle, Robert explores Big Box alternatives" Broadcast Date: February 12, 2007.
• "Eat Grub" Broadcast Date: January 9, 2007.
• "Why Buy Local for the Holidays?" Broadcast Date: December 20, 2006.
• "Local Food, Local Culture" Broadcast Date: September 13, 2006.
• "Factory Farming and Happier Meals" Broadcast Date: July 26, 2006.
• "The Progressive Palate" Broadcast Date: July 26, 2005.
• "Food Insecurity" Broadcast Date: June 20, 2005.
• "Raise Less Corn, More Hell" Broadcast Date: June 15, 2005.
• "Slow Food" Broadcast Date: March 16, 2005.
• (Added March 7, 2007.)
• Books — Added: "The United States of Arugula: How We Became a Gourmet Nation"
• (Added March 6, 2007.)
• Slow Food Events – Utah & Nat’l — Changed "Slow Food Utah Events" listing to "Slow Food Events – Utah & National" to reflect inclusion of events primarily from the Utah Convivia, but also major events from Slow Food USA.
• Added: Listing for "March of the Chefs" — March 2007. "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."
• (Added March 4, 2007.)
• Slow Food Projects (USA & Global) Added: — "March of the Chefs" — March 2007.
• (Added March 4, 2007.)
• Community Supported Agriculture — Updated:
• Borski Farms CSA listing.
• East Farms CSA Listing.
• Ranui Gardens CSA Listing.
• Sun River Farm CSA Listing.
• Zoe’s Organic Garden CSA Listing.
• (Updated March 3, 2007.)
• Books — Added:
• A new book "Plenty: One Man, One Woman, and a Raucous Year of Eating Locally, a 100–Mile Diet book to be released April 24, 2007.
• Added to this book listing, audio from Deconstructing Dinner’s broadcast of "100–Mile Diet / Local Food Strategies".
• (Added March 2, 2007.)
• Organizations – National & Global — Added:
• Additional information to the 100–Mile Diet.
• Deconstructing Dinner which " reports on current issues throughout the world of food, with a primary focus on local, regional and provincial issues."
• (Added March 2, 2007.)
• Streaming Media (Audio & Video) — Added:
• Podcast of KPFA’s Terra Verde weekly program. The March 2, 2007 edition is "Sustainable Gardening."
• Added Podcast of Deconstructing Dinner’s broadcast "100–Mile Diet / Local Food Strategies."
• (Added March 2, 2007.)
• Foods (Local Producers & Retailers) — Added:
• "Cochran’s Produce Company, South Ogden, Utah.
• "Crumb Brothers Artisan Bread, Logan, Utah.
• (Added March 1, 2007.)
• Articles/News – General Interest — Added: "Keep Farming Local." Public Forum Letter by Liz Eyre, Salt Lake City. Published by The Salt Lake Tribune, March 1, 2007.
• (Added March 1, 2007.)
• Community Events — Added: Caputo’s Winter Market UPDATE: Lau Family Farms (Soda Springs, Idaho) will be at Caputo’s Winter Market, Saturday, March 3, 2007 from 4:00 to 5:00 p.m.
• (Added February 28, 2007.)
• Reorganization of the Organization Listings has begun. It might take a while, but with all the organizations listed, and growing, it is time to better organize the organizations listings...:-)
• (Begun February 27, 2007.)
• Articles/News – General Interest — Added:
• "For Love & Lamb — Morgan Valley Lamb Bridges the Gap Between Old and New" published in the April, 2007 edition of Salt Lake Magazine.
• Press release on March 6, 2007 release of "Fast Food Nation," the movie on DVD, which will include the DVD release of "The Meatrix" films.
• (Added February 26, 2007.)
• Farmers’ Markets — Added: USDA, Agricultural Marketing Service: Links to Farmers Market Consortium and "Resource Guide" (PDF)
• Also updating Farmers’ Markets listings going forward to prepare for the 2007 Farmers’ Market season...
• (Added February 26, 2007.)
• Slow Food Utah Projects & Photo Gallery — Added: Brief write–up and photos of indoor garden at Riley Elementary School in Salt Lake City to both Slow Food Utah Web pages.
• (Added February 26, 2007.)
• Articles/News – General Interest — Added: Article "Main Street will get silly this Summer: Sunday Market formed to give Parkites more local activities and social events." By Dan Bischoff. Published by The Park Record, February 14, 2007. (New Farmers’ Market in Park City, Summer, 2007.)
• (Added February 24, 2007.)
• Farmers’ Markets — Added: The Park Silly Sunday Market in Park City. "A forum for neighbors and friends to come together to celebrate our commUnity of fun and funky Park Sillians." Open Sundays, June 17th through October 14th, 2007.
• (Added February 24, 2007.)
• Community Supported Agriculture — Added: Alternative Farming Systems Information Center — Community Supported Agriculture which lists information on Community Supported Agriculture, and also links to various other related information including:
• 1993 Community Supported Agriculture (CSA): An Annotated Bibliography and Resource Guide. 1993
• Resources for Farmers. 2006
• Organizations and Web Sites. 2006
• Automated Database Searches. 2006
• Defining Community Supported Agriculture. 1993
• Publications about Community Supported Agriculture. 2001
• (Added February 24, 2007.)
• Streaming Media (Audio & Video) — Added: Two editions of KRCL’s "RadioActive!":
• "Food Activism, Beth rethinks American ideas about food." broadcast February 22, 2007.
• "Big Box Swindle, Robert explores Big Box alternatives." broadcast February 12, 2007.
• (Added February 24, 2007.)
• Streaming Media (Audio & Video) — Added: Link to KUER’s "RadioWest" – "Interview with Jorge Fierro about his Rico Mexican Market." Broadcast: February 22, 2007.
• (Added February 23, 2007.)
• Links to Links Pages — Added: "Green Guerillas Links."
• (Added February 23, 2007.)
• Community Supported Agriculture — Added:
• "Green Guerillas" — Community Supported Agriculture celebrating 30 years of garden action in the Big Apple, New York City!
• "American Community Gardening Association — Growing community through gardening and greening across the United States and Canada."
• "Community Food Security Coalition"
• (Added February 23, 2007.)
• Restaurant Listings & Dining Guides — Added: "Mandarin Restaurant", Bountiful, Utah.
• (Added February 23, 2007.)
• Community Supported Agriculture — Added: "Zoe’s Organic Garden" offering Community Supported Agriculture subscriptions in the Park City & Salt Lake areas.
• (Added February 23, 2007.)
• You can now Click on Any Word in the Slow Food Utah Website, that is not linked, and get the meaning of that word from The Free Dictionary. (Find out more about The Free Dictionary on Site Notes.)
• (Added February 23, 2007.)
• Information: Ag. & Food — Added new page to highlight selected information about agriculture and food in Utah. Items here will include maps, reports, text documents, tables and other informational resources. The first additions to this page include:
• Agricultural Statistical Information for Utah: Includes statistical information about land, farms, farm characteristics (economic, land & crops, organization), and agricultural commodities produced in Utah.
• Agricultural Cash Receipts by Source – Livestock & Crops, for Counties in Utah (2005): Details total cash receipts for each county in Utah for livestock and crops in general.

  These first two are intended to provide a glimpse of the variety of agricultural goods produced in Utah. While we produce a small percentage of the nation’s goods, we still produce a lot, you might be surprised.

• "Farming on the Edge: Sprawling Development Threatens America’s Best Farmland – Utah" provides a visualization of the impacts and pressures being placed on prime farmland in Utah.
• (Added February 21, 2007.)
• Slow Food Utah Events — Added:

  "Slow Food Utah & Bad Dog Rediscovers America present

  "Spring Lunch on the Mountain" — April 1, 2007, 2:00 p.m.

  A Benefit Lunch for Slow Food Utah and Bad Dog Rediscovers America.

  Details at Slow Food Utah – April 1, 2007 "Spring Lunch on the Mountain"

• (Added February 17, 2007.)
• Forums & Blogs — Added blogs collected from the Slow Food USA newsletter The Food Chain and the Slow Food Forum listing of blogs:
• "The Ethicurean" blog, "dedicated to thinking about food."
• "Victual Reality: The Eco–Politics Behind Your Food."
• (Added February 15, 2007.)
• Organizations – National & Global — Added: "TomatoFest® — Heirloom Tomatoes.
• (Added February 15, 2007.)
• Articles/News – General Interest — Changed page title to "Articles/News – General Interest" to create a location to place news items.
• (Changed February 14, 2007.)