Welcome to Slow Food Piedmont
Slow Food is a non-profit, eco-gastronomic member-supported organization founded in 1989.
Its purpose is to counteract fast food and fast life, the disappearance of local food traditions, and people's dwindling interest in the food they eat, where it comes from, how it tastes and how our food choices affect the rest of the world.
The Snail Of Approval program has taken off in the Piedmont!
The SOA progarm provides a way for restaurants, food-based establishments, producers, culinary artisans, and markets who exemplify the Slow Food philosophy to be recognized.
Awards presented in 2009:
- Bettini Farm
- Cane Creek Farm in Snow Camp
- Deep Roots Market
- Goat Lady Dairy
- Handance Farm
- Peterson Farm
- Snow Creek Family Organics
- Stauber Farm
- Sticks & Stones Restaurant
- Sweet Basil's Restaurant
- WeatherHand Farm
Details: Snail of Approval Directory...
Find out how to nominate someone and how it works...
Application Form... |
N.C. MOVES FORWARD TO CHAMPION LOCAL FOOD ECONOMY
Inaugural Meeting of the N.C. SLFAC Scheduled for Feb. 2
The North Carolina Sustainable Local Food Advisory Council will meet
for the first time Tuesday, Feb. 2 at the State Fairgrounds. The public is strongly encouraged to attend.
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| Films on Food and Thinking about What We're Eating |
Locavore: Local Diet, Healthy Planet
A documentary on the local food movement.
No blood, guts or gore…just the real facts in real environments with real stories from real people… |
Food, Inc.
"In Food, Inc. , filmmaker Robert Kenner lifts the veil on our nation's food industry, exposing the highly mechanized underbelly that has been hidden from the American consumer with the consent of our government's regulatory agencies, USDA and FDA." |
What's On Your Plate
A documentary about kids and food politics |
FRESH
New thinking about how we are eating |
The Greenhorns
A documentary film about young farmers
This flm is a film in the making - well worth following |
THE GARDEN
The fourteen-acre community garden at 41st and Alameda in South Central Los Angeles is the largest of its kind in the United States. Started as a form of healing after the devastating L.A. riots in 1992, the South Central Farmers have since created a miracle in one of the country's most blighted neighborhoods. Growing their own food. Feeding their families. Creating a community. But now, bulldozers are poised to level their 14-acre oasis... |
PRESSURE COOKER
Three seniors at Philadelphia's Frankford High School find an unlikely champion in the kitchen of Wilma Stephenson. A legend in the school system, Mrs. Stephenson's hilariously blunt boot-camp method of teaching Culinary Arts is validated by years of scholarship success. Against the backdrop of the row homes of working-class Philadelphia, she has helped countless students reach the top culinary schools in the country. And under her fierce direction, the usual distractions of high school are swept aside as Erica, Dudley and Fatoumata prepare to achieve beyond what anyone else expects from them... |
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Upcoming Events
Training for Ambassadors for Just & Sustainable Agricultre
Wednesday, February 10
Temple Emanuel in Winston-Salem!
SLOW FOODING in 2010
POSTPONED!
Beta Verde, 3733 Milhaven Road, Winston-Salem
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Piedmont Local Food
A new program that will match farmers with restaurants and other customers who want locally grown food.
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| Local Food Coalition plans virtual Farmers Market |
A new Rockingham County group pursuing nonprofit status wants to create a virtual farmers market that would enable Triad restaurants and other businesses to order meat and produce online.
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