Slow Food in a Fast Food World
February 11, 2011
By Guest Blogger
There is a movement taking the nation by storm: the slow food movement. With the release of several foodie films over the last decade, including the 2009 documentary “Food, Inc.,” coupled with a growing genre of foodie books such as Michael Pollan’s “In Defense of Food” and Marion Nestle’s “Food Politics,” people are paying attention – finally! – to the food they eat. So what exactly is slow food and how you can you begin… Read More >
This Earth Day, Thinking Ethically—Not Just Locally
April 20, 2009
By Guest Blogger
Paul Shapiro, Humane Society of the United States Who among us hasn’t heard it before? You don’t need to be a foodie to have read that we ought to be eating more locally-grown foods in order to reduce our carbon footprint. And I couldn’t agree more. But the question of eating ethically involves a lot more than just questioning how many miles our food had to travel to get to our plates. I can’t tell… Read More >
