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Slow Food Forums & Blogs

• Slow Food Forum:

  

  Nation–wide forum focusing on many topics of interest to Slow Food members.

  "All are welcome to read this forum. Registration is required to make a post."

   

  There are several topics in the Slow Food Forum:

• The central forum subjects include: Aqua-culture – ARK Foods – Artisan Cheese and Wine – Big Food & Ag – Biodiversity – Biodynamics – Book Discussions (The Omnivore’s Dilemma, What to Eat, etc.) – Cooking Slow – CSAs – Eat Local – The Edible Schoolyard – Farm and Ranch Land Preservation – Farmers’ Markets – Fast Food – Food Concerns – GMOs – Heirloom vegetables and fruit – Heritage livestock – HFCS – Local and Regional Cuisine – Lost Foods – Mad Cow Disease – Obesity/Diabetes – Organic Standards – PHOs (trans fat) – rBGH/rBST – Slow Restaurants – Slow Food in Schools – Sustainable Farming – and USDA Policies.
• A second major forum topic includes the Slow Events Forum for discussing Slow Food USA events. Here, there is also discussion of Terra Madre 2006, Salone del Gusto 2006, Slow Fish and Slow Cheese. Share what worked and what could be improved. Suggest future events.
• Slow Food USA Asks: "What Food Issue is Important to You? We want to know what food issue you are most interested in and why it is important to you! Are you interested in industrial vs. sustainable farming, animal cloning and conventional vs. organic food, or concerned about the biodiversity of our food supply, food shortages and world hunger? Tell us what’s important to you on the Forum."

  Log in to the Slow Food Forum to read what others say, and to post you own thoughts on the question.

• Terra Madre 2006 Blog

  "This blog features posts and photos from before, during and after the Terra Madre experience.

  Posts are written by delegates, convivium leaders, organizers and observers and tell the story of Terra Madre directly from its participants."

  "We are the voices of Terra Madre. We believe in good, clean and fair food. These are our stories, our pictures, our questions and answers, our problems, concerns, fears, failures and successes."

Forums Covering the Topic of Slow Food

• Slow Foodies Tribe

  "A place for those who share the Slow Food appreciation for a convivial atmosphere for eating and drinking artisanal, regional foods. Share your favorite slow recipes, restaurant and travel reviews, and slow food articles you’ve read."

• There are several related Tribes covering such topics as: Food Geeks, Foodie, Culinary Globe Trekkers, Cheese, Food History, Spice Rack, Cultural Cuisine, Blessed are the Cheesemakers, and Baking (Breads and Pastry).
• Sustainable Table

  See the Slow Food Utah "Books and Movies" and "Organizations – National & Global" pages for background and contextual information on Sustainable Table.

  Sustainable Table offers two Weblogs:

• The Meatrix Parlour the Sustainable Table "community forum where people come together to network, discuss the issues and share information."
• Sustainable Table Blog "serving up healthy food choice from Sustainable Table, The Meatrix & The Eat Well Guide."
• The Slow Movement Forum

  People "want connection to people – ourselves, our family, our community, our friends, – to food, to place (where we live), and to life. We want connection to all that it means to live – we want to live a connected life." Participate in the Slow Movement Forum, or look into more of what the folks at The Slow Movement offer.

Blogs with Some Relation to Slow Food Topics

• Bioneers Food and Farming Blog

  

  "Above all, Bioneers represent a culture of solutions. Their stories demonstrate that just as people have created the environmental and social problem we face, people can solve them – through a reciprocal partnership with nature. Over and over, they show how great a difference the actions of one individual can make.."

• Chocolate & Zucchini

  

  "Written by Clotilde Dusoulier, a 27-year-old Parisian woman who lives in Montmartre [France] and shares her passion for all things food-related -- thoughts, recipes, musings, cookbook acquisitions, quirky products, nifty tools, restaurant experiences, ideas, and inspirations."

• Eat Local Challenge.

  "EatLocalChallenge.com is a group blog written by authors who are interested in the benefits of eating food grown and produced in their local foodshed. Spanning the United States, the group is committed to challenging themselves to eat mainly local food during a specific period of time during 2006."

• Edible Nation

  "Devoted to sustainable cuisine and connecting the farmer in the field with the food on your fork. Edible Nation is the official blog for Edible Communities."

• The Ethicurean "Chew the Right Thing."

  

  "The Ethicurean blog is dedicated to thinking about food. Not just thinking about how to prepare it, or how it tastes — although those things are very important to us – but to pondering where and how it was grown and by whom, the distance that it traveled to our plate, and the less obvious effects of our consuming it.

  The main thing we have in common is that the six of us want to chew the right thing. We want to: * Minimize the pesticides that are sprayed on the land and that make their way into not just our bodies but our water supply and the oceans. * Ratchet down our dependence on foreign oil – 20 percent of U.S. oil usage goes to agriculture as fertilizer and fuel for farming machines, and transport. * Meet our meat, and ask tough questions like whether ethical carnivorism should involve being able to kill an animal yourself. * Hasten the demise of factory farms, in which living creatures are treated like mere widgets of protein and fat, packed together so tightly they must be de–beaked and their tails snipped. * Figure out which fish we can eat, if any, without contributing to the decimation of wild fish stocks – and learn if fish farming can ever be environmentally sound. * Track genetically modified foods, and meat and milk from cloned animals, which we believe should be labeled – but isn’t. * Celebrate cooking, not treat it like a chore from which packaged, processed foods can "save" us. * Patronize farmers markets, where we can ask why some of the mushrooms on offer are organic and others not, and what to do with a rutabaga or green garlic. * Call up and/or visit farms and companies to find out firsthand how they grow, raise, or make their food, and under what conditions. * Find out what’s behind the pastoral fairytales printed on, say, egg cartons for Judy’s Family Farm, and follow faux–farm menu listings back to whence they came."

• Food Migration

  One woman’s adventures and experiences in food, cooking, and eating.

• Food Museum Blog

  "The official Weblog of The FOOD Museum, exploring news, views and discussion of all things food: food history; growing; marketing, cooking; book reviews; issues such as food safety, school lunch reform, GMO foods; diet/nutrition and wacky food fun. Visit The FOOD Museum at www.foodmuseum.com."

• Getcha Grub On

  

  Anna Lappé’s and Bryant Terry’s blog related to their book "Grub: Ideas for an Urban Organic Kitchen"

• See also the Small Planet Institute "Thoughts" blog, which is maintained by Anna and Frances Lappé.
• I’m Mad, and I Eat

  "I live one–half mile from the Marin County Civic Center Farmers’ Market, which feeds my little blogging hobby here. Hell, it feeds me, too. Formerly employed, I’m now a bum. Happy bum. Tomato ranchin’ bum. But I’m still mad. And I eat."

• Planet on a Plate

  "Adventures in Conscious Eating."

   

   

• She Craves

  "A site for my cravings. Not exclusively creations from my kitchen. Not exclusively from jaunts around the world. Just whatever I want to eat and keeps me happy on a daily basis. And yes, there is great food in Utah." (Blog by Vanessa Chang.)

• "Victual Reality: The Eco–Politics Behind Your Food."

  

  " A weekly column by Grist contributing writer Tom Philpott, with reader comments. Tom Philpott farms and cooks at Maverick Farms, a sustainable–agriculture nonprofit and small farm in the Blue Ridge Mountains of North Carolina."

  (Webmaster’s Hint: In order to easily view all of the past editions of Victual Reality, click on the "Previous" link at the bottom of each edition of this column. You will find a wealth of opinion–pieces by Tom Philpott.)

   

• Technorati listing of Blogs tagged with the phrase "Slow Food."

  

  "An internet search engine focused on the world of weblogs."

  (You can search for blogs on other topics by changing the search terms within Technorati.)