April 10th, 2009 at 1:07 pm | 0 Comments |
Categories: Event, news
How much do we really know about the food we buy at our local supermarkets and serve to our families?
Slow Food St. Louis is pleased to announce our participation in a special screening of the new documentary, Food, Inc.
The makers of the film, Magnolia Pictures, and Participant Media, have graciously donated 130 tickets to the Tuesday, April 14th viewing of the film at the Tivoli Theatre. Officially due out June 12th, this is your chance to not only see what is sure to be a moving film months before opening, but also for free!
Those interested in attending can RSVP at http://sites.google.com/site/foodincrsvp/
Once there, click on the link for St. Louis and enter in your information. It’s first come, first serve, and people will be contacted by the film company - not Slow Food St. Louis - about their tickets.
For more information, continue reading after the jump or visit director Robert Kenner’s website for a complete trailer and reviews of the film. Read the rest of this entry »
January 5th, 2009 at 5:21 pm | 0 Comments |
Categories: General, action, news
Slow Food St. Louis is excited to announce that we are the recipient of Whole Foods Market’s “One Dime at a Time” program for January, February and March of 2009! This is at the Brentwood location only. So bring your bags and donate your dimes…..
One Dime at a Time
Whole Foods Market gives 10 cents per bag to customers who re-use their own shopping bags for their purchased groceries. This program reduces our impact on the environment and now supports local non profit groups. Customers will have the choice to accept their cash refund, or donate the cash back to the store’s chosen non profit organization.
October 20th, 2008 at 2:27 pm | 0 Comments |
Categories: news
Slow Food St. Louis would like to announce its new current co-leaders. Bill Burge, Kelly Childs and Kimberly Henricks are more than prepared to bring this convivium forward and expand upon the foundations that have been laid by so many St. Louis Slow Foodies.
The convivium was founded by Beki Marsh in 2000; Sara and Stephen Hale joined her in 2004 to help continue to promote its objectives and fulfill its missions, and all of them are thrilled to be working with such dedicated, enthusiastic volunteers. Thanks to all members and supporters who have helped make this convivium what it is. We’re all looking forward to many fabulous results in the future.
Festina lente,
Stephen, Sara, and Beki
June 21st, 2008 at 2:42 pm | 0 Comments |
Categories: General, news
From Kurt Friese
Hello Slow Food Heartland!
I’ve already spoken to a few of you individually, but this email is for the entire Slow Food Heartland community regarding our emerging efforts to help the farmers and food artisans affected by the storms and floods of the last couple weeks throughout the Heartland. There are a number of ways you and your convivia can help, and I hope you will consider any or all of them
We have established the
Terra Madre Relief Fund for precisely this purpose. Some of you may remember of the great successes this fund had, under Poppy Tooker’s able guidance, in raising over $40K to help victims of Katrina and Rita. Today the fund exists to help all those farmers and food artisans struck by natural disasters nationwide, and right now the focus is on the Mississippi River and its tributaries.
While we are indeed fortunate that the loss of human life in this tragedy has been relatively low, the stories are nonetheless as sad as they are all too numerous; such as Susan, a farmer in Iowa who’s 102-year-old barn was lost to one of the storms last week, leaving much of her livestock without shelter; and Andrew, who’s entire crop of heirloom lettuces took a beating from the hail that same week. Livestock has been swept away, almost 3 million acres of of freshly planted farmland is underwater and 35,000 people’s homes have been destroyed - this in Iowa alone. Wisconsin, Illinois and Missouri are seeing much of the same.
But just as it was for so many after Katrina, such as Kay and Ray Brandhurst, the shrimpers in Louisiana who’s trawler got a new engine thanks to the
TM Relief Fund, so that they could get back to providing good, clean, fair food, there is hope for the folks in the Heartland as well. We intend to help get these farmers back to the markets, and get those markets back up and running.
So I am writing to ask you for your help, not just for donations (though of course we need those too), but also for the stories of the people you know who were affected by this terrible flood.
Please also consider organizing a benefit event within your convivium to help us raise the money that is so desperately needed, or perhaps to refocus an event you already have planned to benefit flood relief. And please be sure to ask each of your members to give generously at
this link or by sending checks (made out to Slow Food USA - with “Terra Madre Relief Fund: Iowa” in the memo) to the address below.
I’m here to help with event planning, as are the regional governors and the SFUSA national office. In some cases I may be able to attend events, since I will be touring with my book starting in September anyway (something I’ll discuss with you all under separate cover), and a portion of the sales of every copy of my book will go to this fund.
We truly appreciate, and are relying on your generosity. Please give at the
Terra Madre Relief Fund, and feel free to contact me at any time with comments or questions. Thank you all so very much, and I’ll be in touch soon with more details.
May 9th, 2008 at 10:28 am | 0 Comments |
Categories: news
Slow Food has a program called the Ark of Taste which aims to rediscover and catalogue forgotten flavors, documenting excellent food products that are in danger of disappearing. More than 750 products from dozens of countries worldwide have been added to the international Ark of Taste which contains everything from heirloom vegetables to heritage animal breeds to salumi.
Bringing it closer to home, here are just a few items listed in the Ark with a strong foothold in Missouri:
- black walnuts
- norton grapes
- red wattle hogs
- traditional Sorghum syrup
LocalHarvest has now partnered with Slow Food USA and will be helping to bring attention the Ark of Taste by utilzing the LocalHarvest database to to find more farmers and artisanal food producers who might be interested in producing Ark of Taste products. They have also listed all of the Ark of Taste products independently under each farmers listing so that consumers can more easily find these unique items and learn about their place in our American food heritage.
More on the Slow Food USA Ark of Taste can be found here, and further information on the partnership is available on LocalHarvest’s website.
