Finalize Your Plans to Join Us at Slow Food NationsWe're only three weeks away from gathering around the table in Denver! If you haven't already, finalize your plans to join us for an incredible lineup of free talks, culinary workshops, summits, an outdoor bar and food lounge, and the Taste Marketplace for a free culinary adventure showcasing over 80 exhibitors of good, clean and fair food. Richard McCarthy and Krista Roberts hosted a Slow Food Nations Town Hall call earlier this month
to give a sneak peak of the festival weekend, ways to get involved, tips on travel and lodging, and more. Listen below!
Why the Slow Food Nations Leader Summit MattersA note from Slow Food International's
General Secretary, Paolo Di CroceDear Slow Food Leaders,
I urge you to join me in Denver on Friday, July 13th for the Leader Summit at the Johnson & Wales campus. It’s marvelous! As you may know, at our recent International Congress in Chengdu, we made important decisions about the future of our movement and our organization. We need your voice there at the Leader Summit to grow the global community of individuals and families who want to change the world! You can book your seat at the table here. Paolo Di Croce
General Secretary, Slow Food International
Programming for Terra Madre Salone Del Gusto AnnouncedThe program and tickets for Terra Madre Salone del Gusto 2018 are now online and will be updated with additional events over the coming weeks. A reminder that June 30 is the deadline to receive the final list of self paying delegates. Register here. Additionally, Terra Madre delegates attending Slow Food Nations will have an opportunity to meet-up. Additional informational webinars for delegates will be forthcoming post-Slow Food Nations.
Immigration MattersRead our most recent blog on why immigration matters and how the current administration's efforts to advance various anti-immigration measures impact the landscape of American agriculture. Rep.
Goodlatte (R- VA), Chair of the House Judiciary Committee, introduced the Agricultural Guestworker (AG) Act (H.R. 4092) last year. According to Farmworker Justice contributing writer Jessica Felix-Romero, the AG Act would “transform the farm labor force into a system of non-immigrant guest workers who would hold temporary work permits and are subjected to low wages and poor working conditions, with inadequate recourse for the abuses that will inevitably result from the program’s inherently flawed structure.” The bill sends a clear message: we will take your labor, but
we will not accept you as a human being. Slow Food wholeheartedly opposes the AG Act.
SLOW FOOD SPOTLIGHTWe are excited to welcome three new members to Slow Food USA's Board of Directors!
Chef Kevin Mitchell pursued a M.A. in Southern Studies at the University of Mississippi. He holds an A.O.S in Culinary Arts and a B.P.S in Culinary Arts Management from the Culinary Institute of America and considers home to be Charleston, South Carolina. With a background in food, he is very involved in the study of foodways, the preservation of southern ingredients, the history of African American chefs and food justice with the Slow Food movement. Chef Mitchell is an active member of the American Culinary Federation, as well as a founding father of the BCA, Bridging Culinary Awareness, formally the Black Culinarian Alliance.
Tomoko Miyahara is a Senior Manager with Deloitte Tax LLP in New York City. For more than a decade she has worked with Deloitte. Before New York, she worked in their Delhi, India offices. Fluent in many languages, cultures and culinary settings, Tomoko grew up in Hiroshima. Living now in Queens, NYC, Tomoko still lives within a stone’s throw of her favorite Indian foods: Kebabs, has malai and Indian sweets. She joins the board at a time when Slow Food USA and Slow Food Nippon are involved with a number of international and intercultural partnerships.
Ed Yowell has been a member of Slow Food since 2000. Presently, on the Slow Food NYC Board, he: co-chairs the Urban Harvest Committee, supporting good food education in 15 New York City schools and on a tuition-free, educational, urban farm in East New York, Brooklyn; serves on the Development Committee; and volunteers regularly with the SLOW U committee, that produces “slow” educational events. He also serves on the advisory committee of the New York City Greenmarket and on the American Farmland Trust New York Advisory Council. He is a Co-Chair of the Slow Food USA Food and Farm Policy Steering Committee and served as the Slow Food USA Northeast Regional Governor from 2005 to 2015.
Slow Food USA Change of AddressWe have moved to a new office within our building. Please update your records with our new suite address. Slow Food USA
1000 Dean Street,
Suite 402
Brooklyn, NY 11238
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