International Disco Soup Day
April 29, 2017From Tehran to Madrid to Hong Kong, Slow Food Youth Networks around the world are joining together on Saturday, April 29 to celebrate World Disco Soup Day to stop perfectly edible food from reaching landfill. Disco Soup
is a food waste awareness event, set to music, where unsellable or expired food from farms and groceries is rescued and made into hundreds of free meals for the public. World Disco Soup Day will be the largest food waste awareness event in history, with over 100 Disco Soups in 40 countries planned for April 29. U.S. World Disco Soup Day events stretch from Slow Food Vermont to Slow Food Metro North
in South Salem, New York to Slow Food Austin in the live music capitol of the world. It is not too late to join the efforts of World Disco Soup Day; Slow Food International outlines a six-step guide to hosting a Disco Soup
and events as small as a dumpster-dive potluck do a lot to raise awareness around waste. Read more in our latest blog by US Disco Soup Day Coordinator, Lauren Nelson!
Slow Food Nations Delegate
National Call
May 9th, 2017Join us on Tuesday May 9th at 4 PM ET for a Slow Food Nations National Call all about the delegate experience. We will provide more information about the delegate summit programming and answer any questions you may have about logistics, including the Delegate Reception, free tickets, hotel disounts, and more. Tuesday May 9th at 4 PM ET
Please join my meeting from your computer, tablet or smartphone.
https://global.gotomeeting.com/join/944842821 You can also dial in using your phone.
United States: +1 (224) 501-3312
Access Code: 944-842-821
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Slow Food USA Leaders and Members, we want to hear your voice! National Statute Comment Period
Open Until May 15, 2017The National Statute is the governing document for our local chapter network, ratified by leaders on April 15, 2012 at the Slow Food USA National Congress in Louisville, KY. Proposed amendments will be voted upon this year at Slow Food Nations by Slow Food USA's membership and is subject to ratification at that time. Watch
our April 4th National Statute Webinar to learn more about the proposed amendments, open comment period, and voting process. Feel free to check out the proposed amendments or review the original statute from 2012.
Contribute to The Immigrant Cookbook: Recipes that Make America GreatInterlink Publishing is embarking on a new cookbook project with Slow Food Beirut, Lebanon member Barbara Abdeni Massaad called The Immigrant Cookbook: Recipes that Make America Great to counteract the anti-immigrant policies of the Trump administration, help raise funds to support the work of the ACLU (American Civil Liberties Union) in defending the rights of immigrants, and to celebrate the many ethnic groups that have contributed to America’s vibrant food culture. The book will promote
the message of unity and will feature 80 or so recipes from prominent American immigrant chefs that will highlight the diversity of America as a whole. This beautifully designed and photographed cookbook will be published later this year by Interlink Publishing, a 30-year-old, Massachusetts-based independent publishing house. Interlink will donate half of the profits generated from the sale of this book to the ACLU. If you know a self-identified immigrant chef (first or second generation) who would like to contribute to the cookbook,
please have them submit a recipe by May 15, 2017. Questions or comments? Email Michel Moushabeck publisher/editor at Interlink Publishing.
Chapter Taxes due May 15, 2017Don’t forget that taxes are due by May 15, 2017! If your chapter fails to file, you risk losing your tax-exempt status. Not to worry though! On the Leader Resources page of our website, you will find a
guide to filing your chapter taxes. Once you have filed them, forward the confirmation email from the IRS to chapters@slowfoodusa.org along with the name of your chapter. If you have any questions, do not hesitate to contact the network support team by emailing us.
SLOW FOOD SPOTLIGHT
Buy an Ark of Taste Garden Kit!Each garden kit includes seeds for Aunt Molly's Ground Cherry, Early Blood Turnip-Rooted Beet, and Amish Deer Tongue Lettuce; a limited-edited poster and stickers; a Slow Food field notebook with recipes; engraved plant markers; and a beautiful cedar sign for your garden. Buy a kit here.
Andrew Fisher co-founded and led the Community Food Security Coalition (CFSC), a national alliance of groups working on food access and local food, until 2011. He successfully led advocacy efforts and passage of crucial federal nutrition legislation to address food security, including the establishment of the Community Food Projects and Farm to School grants.
His new book, Big Hunger: The Unholy Alliance Between Corporate America and Anti-Hunger Groups, is the launch for a new vision for how to untangle corporate interests from food banks and the anti-hunger movement. Fisher is currently on a national book signing tour. If your chapter would like to host a talk and book signing event, contact Andrew. Current book signing events can be found here.
MESA Launches Online Certificate in Applied Agroecology Program The Multinational Exchange for Sustainable Agricultural (MESA) has launched an online Certificate in Applied Agroecology Program (CAAP). The
program is open-sourced, community based, and co-developed by experts in the field, which builds both technical knowledge and theoretical framework of the socio-political aspects of farming. Sign up now to be one of their 2017 global cohorts of farmers, thinkers, and doers!
“…the care of the earth is our most ancient and most worthy and, after all, our most pleasing responsibility. To cherish what remains of it, and to foster its renewal, is our only legitimate hope.”
- Wendell Berry
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