Snacks and Glints

Forging a Hot Link to the Farmer Who Grows the Food – cool article in the Times

Raj Patel wants you to Buy Japanese or at least, live in Japan

Teenagers near fast food = obesity. And Marion Nestle has some ideas on it. And she was in the NY times last week. Go Marion.

The new Food Inc movie. Can’t see it here in Nairobi but see it if it comes to a theater near you…

And another film called “Food Fight”. It is hard to keep up these days…

Best Trattoria in Rome? Let the Debate Begin. God, how I would die to be eating this food every night. Taking slow food to the profound letter. But hell, this the origin of slowness in all its beauty.

a vegetable garden on the south lawn

The new administration has broken ground for a vegetable garden of local, organic foods on the White House lawn. This idea, advocated by First Lady Michelle, should be credited to Slow Food USA’s president Josh Viertel and organic chef Alice Waters who have been pushing for our government to take notice and make changes how America’s food is produced and consumed. High time we have a government who is thinking about nutrition. A true seed of change indeed.

NY Times published a map of what will be planted. No beets for Barack but plenty of the fixings for Mexican food. Sounds like my kind of people.

There are some accompanying articles on organic food and its movement in the Times. And I must add that the vegetable garden article was the most viewed for three days in a row.