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Flex Food versus Slow Food

September 12, 2009

How about the term “Flex Food” as a replace­ment for the rather dowdy term “Slow Food” — I’d rather imply a show of force; a tak­ing back con­trol over our bod­ies; our com­mit­ment to flex­ing our con­sumer dol­lars back into our local com­mu­ni­ties and farms.
Flex­ing is a show of power– food is under­go­ing a REAL revolution, […]

Tagged as: activism, cultural, political, slowfood

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Future Gardens of Mycological Mindfulness

September 10, 2009

This video gives me so much hope– it’s long (at about 17 min­utes), but worth the time. Besides inspir­ing you to think about mush­room mycelium as being like a huge under­ground brain net­work that com­mu­ni­cates with and man­ages resources for var­i­ous plant species, it will also explain how mush­room mycelium can be used to clean […]

Tagged as: activism, cultural, mushrooms, mycelium, mycoremediation, political

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Restaurant Culture as Unique

September 3, 2009

It is com­monly said among cooks  that work­ing in a restau­rant isn’t like the nor­mal out­side world– we work when every­body else is off work: week­ends, hol­i­days, nights, early morn­ings. It is also said that the peo­ple who work in restau­rants are a bit strange.…  I guess I am a bit strange, the peo­ple I […]

Tagged as: cultural, slowfood, Twenty/20

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Intuitive Eating, Chinese-Style

September 2, 2009

I have strug­gled for nearly two decades with binge eat­ing– it’s only in the last year that I’ve finally found the space inside myself that allows me to stop eat­ing when my body says “I’m full.” Part of it is slow­ing down a bit and lis­ten­ing to my body, my stom­ach. And part of it […]

Tagged as: activism, cultural, event, political, slowfood

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Preserving memories

September 1, 2009

Two days of can­ning– two days of jars filled with the happy mem­o­ries of late sum­mer. Not just the food­stuffs inside the jars, but sym­bolic. A day shared among fam­ily mem­bers and friends– a joy­ous warmth beyond calo­ries. Food is culture.

Tagged as: canning, cultural, summer

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