Slow food movement bringing back healthy local cuisine to our kitchen tables

It's a Friday night at a downtown church, and a collection of the city's well-heeled are breaking bread and sipping wine. Beautiful people dressed in their Friday night best are communing over food tables laden with little bundles of gastronomic miracles, while a live band belts out old-world jazz hymns. It's a congregation of like-minded foodies, celebrating the spring thaw and the culinary possibilities it brings to steadfast believers of more earthly faiths. "The slow food movement is traditionally grown foods, foods that your great grandmother would recognize as food," said Paul DeCampo of Slow Food Toronto...

"When we first opened, the headlines were, 'Society Butchers in a Shantytown,'"

Defne Koryurek might just be the world's most glamorous butcher-shop owner. It's a sunny Saturday in Istanbul, and the 40-year-old defne - in a chic minidress by Machka, one of her favorite Turkish designers - ... via Food & Wine

Digging out from a few busy weeks and catching up on news of interest to Slow Food members and friends... Bill Moyers' Journal and food policy: Tune in or set the recorder: Bill Moyers will turn his attention ... via Slow Food LA

"It's definitely not a Florence event; it's a Shoals event"

Last Updated:April 06. 2008 12:12AM Published: April 06. 2008 4:30AM Earth Month schedule Here is a schedule of local events that will take place as part of Shoals Earth Month and phone numbers to call for more ... via Times Daily

The cost of food: Lots of news in the last week about rising food prices, their current effects, and likely future effects: ++ Marion Nestle cites several articles, including pieces in The Economist and The ... via Slow Food LA

"This project allows farmers who came from all around the country to work directly with clients"

SIDON: Local food and agricultural products were up for sale in Sidon's old souk on Sunday in the first "Land Market" organized by the Hariri Foundation for Human Development in collaboration with the Italian ... via The Daily Star

SOME people would just as soon ignore the culinary potential of the Carolina flying squirrel or the Waldoboro green neck rutabaga. To them, the creamy Hutterite soup bean is too obscure and the Tennessee fainting goat, which keels over when startled, sounds more like a sideshow act than the centerpiece of a barbecue...

"Bowdoin has two organic gardens, begun five years ago as a student project and now in the hands of a farm manager. Last year they supplied more than $20,000 of herbs and vegetables, with the surplus sold at an on-campus farmers' market."

Bowdoin College in Brunswick is highlighted in a NYT article today by Maine food writer Michael Sanders that discusses the fine dining now offered on college campuses across the country. via Down East

From steaming bowls of noodle soup to fiery curries served at roadside stalls, Asia is known for its superb fast food. But fans of the Slow Food movement are trying to teach Asia's busy eaters to take things more sedately. Founded in northern Italy and France in response to the spread of fast-food chains, Slow Food promotes local produce through tastings, farm visits ...