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Shake the Hand That Feeds You IV
When people ask what we do at Slow Food Columbus, one of the things I like to mention is our annual Shake the Hand That Feeds You dinner at Dick Jensen’s Flying J organic farm in Johnstown. The meal embodies the Slow Food ideal along many key dimensions: Community. New people often come expecting the [...]
Op-Ed: The Raw and the Deep-Fried
I awoke this morning to a lot of buzz about Frank Bruni calling out Anthony Bourdain for Mr. Bourdain’s disparaging comments about Paula Deen (“Unsavory Culinary Elitism,” Op-Ed, New York Times, August 24). The nub of the argument is that elitism, not a genuine concern about unhealthiness, is driving Bourdain’s disparaging remarks. ”When Deen fries [...]
Take the $5 Challenge
Slow Food USA has rolled out its annual Day of Action, and it is one that’s near and dear to our hearts: the $5 Challenge. On September 17, Slow Food USA is asking its members to rise to the challenge of the value meal by cooking a Slow Food-friendly meal that costs no more than [...]
Columbus Food Deserts
Those of you who weren’t able to make it to Available Light Theater’s Food Play might be interested in a short film that they produced as part of the play on the subject of food deserts in Columbus: [vimeo http://www.vimeo.com/26988598 w=600&h=337] Columbus Food Deserts from Available Light on Vimeo. (Hat tip to Todd at Local Matters for the heads-up.)
Food Deserts and Food Access
We had a great opportunity this weekend to meet Mr. Will Allen of Milwaukee’s Growing Power and to learn about, and discuss, the incredible work that he does. As is often the case, his visit has prompted a lot of discussion regarding some interrelated questions—food deserts, food access, health, and poverty foremost among them—that merit [...]
Recipe: Braised Kohlrabi
(As development of our Slow Food on a Fast Food Budget cookbook progresses, we will occasionally be sharing some of the recipes that we come across during the writing of the book.) Braised Kohlrabi Serves 4. Approximate ingredient cost: $0.91 per person 2 lbs. kohlrabi 1 small onion 1 cube butter Salt, pepper to taste [...]
Dinner at StudioKitchen with Ideas in Food
Here at Slow Food Columbus we usually focus on the Columbus food scene, but occasionally we like to write a bit about the national food scene as well. The best of Columbus’ chefs and the city’s most engaged diners always seem eager to discover more of what’s going on in other cities, and if we [...]
A Day at the Farm: Mother’s Day Potluck Re-Cap
Slow Food Columbus members were invited out to Pleasantview Farm in Circleville by Perry Clutts, the farm’s owner, to spend Mother’s Day. And a wonderful crowd turned up to share a potluck meal featuring grass-fed beef meatloaf sandwiches, tender asparagus and farm-made ricotta with honey from the farm’s hives. Pleasantview’s farm house has a big, [...]
Off the Menu: An Offal Evening at Basi
You know a dinner has really had an impact when, months later, you mention it to people who know nothing about your organization and they say, “Oh… I heard about that.” That was the offal dinner at Basi Italia. We hadn’t initially written about it because we didn’t have many photographs right away, but since [...]