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Hey you, slow down!(Slow Food USA is a non-profit organization dedicated to)(preserving the culinary diversity of America and fighting)(against the industrialization of food)(Brief Article)
"Slow food means learning how to manage our time, savoring food with pleasure and awareness. It is not so much the quantity of time we spend at the table that counts as the quality of the food we eat and the relationship we establish with it." --Slow Food USA web site
"We are pro small food production, and we are here to protect the U.S. food heritage," says Patrick Martins, president of Slow Food USA. Not "just another food and wine club," Slow Food is a non-profit organization dedicated to preserving the culinary diversity of America and fighting against the industrialization of food.
"We're an eco-gastronomic movement," said Martins. "Most mainstream groceries and fast foods have huge PR budgets, and small foods don't have that. We want to protect the U.S. food heritage." Foods they are seeking to preserve include thousands of apple varieties that are at risk of becoming extinct, different types of handcrafted cheeses and small-batch microbrews. "These are all in danger of ...
- Slow Food USA. (Health Risks and Environmental Issues).(nonprofit organization...
- Magazine article from: Townsend Letter for Doctors and Patients Williams, Rose Marie February 1, 2002 700+ words
...over speed. In the country that invented fast food, Slow Food USA, a nonprofit organization, has a mission to support...the food traditions and heritage of North America. Slow Food USA recognizes the importance of enjoying wholesome food...
- Assoc. of Brewers expands links with Slow Food USA.(Brief Article)
- Magazine article from: Modern Brewery Age January 6, 2003 700+ words
...strengthened relationship with Slow Food USA's 8,000 plus members. AOB...letter to the leaders of the 70+ Slow Food conviviums around the country...affirming the mission and philosophy of Slow Food: protection of biodiversity...
- Golden arch enemies: Slow Food USA has a big beef with fast-food, and...
- Newspaper article from: Spokesman-Review (Spokane, WA) June 6, 2007 700+ words
...the past few months to start a new Slow Food chapter in Spokane. If you've...on) fast-food. So, what is "slow food?" "It's everything that fast...executive director for Brooklyn-based Slow Food USA. "We're an 'eco-gastronomic...
- Eatery owners chew on Slow Food Movement's message; group aims to be the...
- Magazine article from: Bellingham Business Journal Schiller, Heidi July 1, 2006 700+ words
...You say tomato, they say heirloom Slow-Food is an international organization...world regions, according to the Slow Food USA Web site, www.slowfoodusa.org...owner, as well as a member of the Slow Food movement. His extended family were...
- Slow Food USA's endangered food list.(Knight Ridder Newspapers)
- Newspaper article from: Knight Ridder/Tribune News Service Coco, Arlene August 27, 2001 700+ words
Slow Food USA has selected these foods as "passengers...industrial and agricultural standardization. Slow Food gives priority to foods that are produced...harvested and hand-processed wild rice. Slow Food members Marcia and Chuck Lavine of Nevis...
- Slow Food USA's endangered food list.
- News wire article from: Duluth News-Tribune (Duluth, MN) August 3, 2001 700+ words
Byline: Arlene Coco Slow Food USA has selected these foods as "passengers...and agricultural standardization. Slow Food gives priority to foods that are...and hand-processed wild rice. Slow Food members Marcia and Chuck Lavine of...
- Heritage pork.(Industry Spotlight)(Slow Food USA and Heritage Foods USA founder...
- Magazine article from: Art Culinaire September 22, 2008 700+ words
...heritage pork, we spoke with Patrick Martins, founder of Slow Food USA and Heritage Foods USA. Having organized the small farms...a week-in, week-out business, too. As long as slow food-type producers have to make excuses like 'We didn...
- The Blade, Toledo, Ohio, Kathie Smith column: Slow Food group forms in...
- Newspaper article from: Blade (Toledo, OH) July 3, 2007 700+ words
...Long. Besides the local convivium, there's Slow Food International and Slow Food USA, a nonprofit educational organization. Recently...heard Carlo Petrini, founder and president of Slow Food, speak about his new book Slow Food Nation...
