Slow Food Mission
Slow Food USA seeks to create dramatic and lasting change in the food system. We reconnect Americans with the people, traditions, plants, animals, fertile soils and waters that produce our food. We seek to inspire a transformation in food policy, production practices and market forces so that they ensure equity, sustainability and pleasure in the food we eat.
Become a member of Slow Food Mohawk Valley USA - For just $25 - click here and begin enjoying your membership benefits today
Good, Clean and Fair
 Good: The word good can mean a lot of things to a lot of people. For Slow Food, the idea of good means enjoying delicious food created with care from healthy plants and animals. The pleasures of good food can also help to build community and celebrate culture and regional diversity.
Clean: When we talk about clean food, we are talking about nutritious food that is as good for the planet as it is for our bodies. It is grown and harvested with methods that have a positive impact on our local ecosystems and promotes biodiversity.
Fair: We believe that food is a universal right. Food that is fair should be accessible to all, regardless of income, and produced by people who are treated with dignity and justly compensated for their labor.
Join Us Slow Food Mohawk Valley is shaped by your direct involvement. Slow Food USA offers many programs for chapters to apply at the local level. Plug in and make it happen: it starts with you.
The Slow Food USA Ark of Taste is a catalog of over 200 delicious foods in danger of extinction. By planting, promoting and eating Ark products we help ensure that they remain in production and on our plates.
Slow Food in Schools teaches youth about the values of eating locally, seasonally and sustainably through hands-on projects. Programs can range from after-school cooking classes to school activities to improve school lunches or establishing a school garden.
Slow Food on Campus is a network of Slow Food USA campus chapters that engage college students around food system and food justice issues. Start a chapter today!
1000 Gardens in Africa Slow Food is embarking on an ambitious project to create food gardens in every Terra Madre community across Africa. The challenge to create 1000 gardens in schools, villages and on the outskirts of cities was launched at the Terra Madre meeting last October.
Slow Food Mohawk Valley is raising funds to sponsor one or more gardens. (Gift certificates are available.)
Terra Madre USA is a network of over 7,000 food producers, cooks and educators from 150 countries united by a common goal of global sustainability in food systems.
To learn about Slow Food Mohawk Valley, please contact either of the chapter leaders:
For more information about Slow Food USA, click here.
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News and Events
Mark you calendar: January offers plenty of opportunities to attend Slow Food events!
Saturday, January 21st:
TEDX Manhattan
10 am - 6 pm, Hamilton College. Registration is open, click here to sign up for this FREE event.
Seats are limited!
Sunday, January 29th:
"Souper Bowl Sunday" Potluck
1 - 3 pm @ RCIL's Smith Center for Advocacy
Who doesn't love a Community Pot Luck? Bring a soup and share an afternoon of community building with a dash of informative updates, a few presentations and lots of information on upcoming events to plug into this year!
Saturday, January 21st:
Wandering Fork Dinner presented by
Westmoreland Food Swap NY
In the Westmoreland Firehouse,
100 Station Road,Westmoreland, NY
This meal will be served in Tapas style, with food stations set up around the room in real wandering fork style! Please bring a small plate, place setting, wine glasses and your beverage of choice. Water, coffee & tea will be provided.
This will also be a FOOD SWAP – each participant must bring food items they have made, grown or foraged to swap. Dress up your food items, with ribbons and labels. Get creative!
For more inspiration go to the Westmoreland Food Swap NY –Facebook page – we will be posting links to other swaps and sharing lots of inspiration with you over the next few weeks there.
We have room for 30. Call Denise Szarek at 315-853-5901 to make your reservation. $20.00/person
Country Pâté w/ Housemade Mustard, Assorted Local Cheeses, Assorted Pickles & Jcookies Crackers
Sautéed Szarek Farms Swiss Chard w/ Raisins and Walnuts
Artichoke Heart, Fennel, Kalamata, Hearts of Palm & Tomato Salad, Lemon/Caper Viniagrette
Caribbean Plaintain Tostones Filled w/ Bay Scallop Ceviche
Salvadoran Papusas made w/ Gianforte Farms Masa, Filled with Combination of Chicharrones & Queso or Red Turtle Beans & Queso, Traditional Curtido & Salsa Accompaniments
Maple Hill Yogurt Cheese Tortoni w/ Cherries & Almonds
News from Slow Food USA
Food News: December 17, 2012 - January 6, 2012
More Young People Going Into Farming
Dinesh Ramde, Associated Press
A Wisconsin factory worker worried about layoffs became a dairy farmer. An employee at a Minnesota nonprofit found an escape from her cubicle by buying a vegetable farm. A nuclear engineer tired of office bureaucracy decided to get into cattle ranching in Texas. While fresh demographic information on U.S. farmers won’t be available until after the next agricultural census is done next year, there are signs more people in their 20s and 30s are going into farming.
Looking Ahead: 2012 Food Politics
Marion Nestle, The Atlantic
Q: What's on the food politics agenda for 2012? Can we expect anything good to happen?
A: By "good," I assume you mean actions that make our food system safer and healthier for consumers, farmers, farm workers, and the planet. Ordinarily, I am optimistic about such things. This year? Not so much.
U.S. Approves Monsanto Drought-Tolerant GM Corn
Reuters
USDA approved the variety after reviewing environmental and risk assessments, public comments and research data from Monsanto. Corn is the most widely grown U.S. crop and farmers grew 91.9 million acres of the feed grain this year, the second-largest area since World War Two.
Photos from our Mill Hollow Maple Tour:
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Good: The word good can mean a lot of things to a lot of people. For Slow Food, the idea of good means enjoying delicious food created with care from healthy plants and animals. The pleasures of good food can also help to build community and celebrate culture and regional diversity. 
