Know Your Mushrooms
Sept. 2 at 7:30
Filmmaker Ron Mann (Grass) cooks up a tasty stew of mushroom arcana seasoned with astonishing facts (did you know the world's largest organism is a five-mile-long fungus?) and eccentric characters. Using goofy animation and original music by the Flaming Lips, Know Your Mushrooms is a funny, informative tribute to the wild mushroom and the cultural experiences—mind-expanding and otherwise—attached to it. Best Feature, NYC Food Film Festival.
Q&A: Gary Lincoff, who is featured in the film, is one of the nation’s best known mushroom experts. He is the author of the National Audubon Society Field Guide to North American Mushrooms.
Sunday, August 23, 2009
Sunday, June 28, 2009
ANNOUNCING - TIME FOR LUNCH
A Special Message from Slow Food USA
Time for Lunch Petition
This summer Slow Food USA is launching an awareness campaign called Time for Lunch to bring public attention to the need to help our schools feed our children healthy foods (not fake or fast foods), and to help our schools source real food locally.
This fall the Child Nutrition Act, the bill that governs the National School Lunch Program, is up for reauthorization in Congress. The National School Lunch Program provides a meal to more than 30 million children every school day. By giving schools the resources to serve real food, 30 million children will benefit with better health, better nutrition, better concentration, and, as many studies have shown, academic achievement.
The Slow Food USA platform is recommending these inclusions to the bill:
Invest in children's health - Give schools just one dollar more per day for each child's lunch.
Protect against food that puts children at risk - Establish strong standards for all food sold at school, including food from vending machines and school fast food.
Teach children healthy habits that will last through life - Fund grants for innovative Farm to School programs and school gardens.
Give schools the incentive to buy local - Establish financial incentives that encourage schools to buy food from local farms for all child nutrition programs, thereby creating jobs in our communities, rebuilding rural economies, supporting family farmers, and shortening the distance food travels to save oil and ensure school foods are as fresh and healthy as possible.
Create green jobs with a School Lunch Corps - Train underemployed Americans to be the teachers, farmers, cooks, and administrators our school cafeterias need in a program similar to Americorps.
To sign the Time for Lunch petition and learn more: www.slowfoodusa.org/timeforlunch
Contact Your Legislators
A second component is telling your legislators that this issue is important to you. Quick steps:
1. Write a letter to your Washington legislators to vote for the reauthorization.
2. Make a phone call to tell them that change can't wait: It's time to provide America's children with real food at school.
3. Invite your legislators to your Eat-In (see third component below) and/or set up a meeting to talk in person.
To find your legislators' addresses, visit http://congress.org and type in your zip code. Remember that politicians work for you.
Community Eat-Ins on Labor Day
A third component of the campaign involves heightening media attention on the need to reauthorize the Childhood Nutrition Act through hundreds of Community Eat-Ins across the country on Labor Day. An Eat-In is a potluck that takes place in public and gathers people to support a cause - like getting real food into schools. Any type of Eat-In can be planned - big or small.
To learn more and for details on how to organize your own Eat-In on Labor Day, visit the Slow Food USA website at http://www.slowfoodusa.org/timeforlunch.
If anyone is interserested in hosting an event or would like to join an event, contact us at slowfoodwestchester@gmail.com.
Slow Food International is a non-profit, member-supported organization founded in 1989 to counteract fast food and fast life, the disappearance of local food traditions and people's dwindling interest in the food they eat, where it comes from, how it tastes and how our food choices affect the rest of the world. Today, we have over 85,000 members in 132 countries. To become a member, or renew your membership to Slow Food USA, please visit:
www.slowfoodlongisland.org
or
www.slowfoodusa.org
Time for Lunch Petition
This summer Slow Food USA is launching an awareness campaign called Time for Lunch to bring public attention to the need to help our schools feed our children healthy foods (not fake or fast foods), and to help our schools source real food locally.
This fall the Child Nutrition Act, the bill that governs the National School Lunch Program, is up for reauthorization in Congress. The National School Lunch Program provides a meal to more than 30 million children every school day. By giving schools the resources to serve real food, 30 million children will benefit with better health, better nutrition, better concentration, and, as many studies have shown, academic achievement.
The Slow Food USA platform is recommending these inclusions to the bill:
Invest in children's health - Give schools just one dollar more per day for each child's lunch.
Protect against food that puts children at risk - Establish strong standards for all food sold at school, including food from vending machines and school fast food.
Teach children healthy habits that will last through life - Fund grants for innovative Farm to School programs and school gardens.
Give schools the incentive to buy local - Establish financial incentives that encourage schools to buy food from local farms for all child nutrition programs, thereby creating jobs in our communities, rebuilding rural economies, supporting family farmers, and shortening the distance food travels to save oil and ensure school foods are as fresh and healthy as possible.
Create green jobs with a School Lunch Corps - Train underemployed Americans to be the teachers, farmers, cooks, and administrators our school cafeterias need in a program similar to Americorps.
To sign the Time for Lunch petition and learn more: www.slowfoodusa.org/timeforlunch
Contact Your Legislators
A second component is telling your legislators that this issue is important to you. Quick steps:
1. Write a letter to your Washington legislators to vote for the reauthorization.
2. Make a phone call to tell them that change can't wait: It's time to provide America's children with real food at school.
3. Invite your legislators to your Eat-In (see third component below) and/or set up a meeting to talk in person.
To find your legislators' addresses, visit http://congress.org and type in your zip code. Remember that politicians work for you.
Community Eat-Ins on Labor Day
A third component of the campaign involves heightening media attention on the need to reauthorize the Childhood Nutrition Act through hundreds of Community Eat-Ins across the country on Labor Day. An Eat-In is a potluck that takes place in public and gathers people to support a cause - like getting real food into schools. Any type of Eat-In can be planned - big or small.
To learn more and for details on how to organize your own Eat-In on Labor Day, visit the Slow Food USA website at http://www.slowfoodusa.org/timeforlunch.
If anyone is interserested in hosting an event or would like to join an event, contact us at slowfoodwestchester@gmail.com.
Slow Food International is a non-profit, member-supported organization founded in 1989 to counteract fast food and fast life, the disappearance of local food traditions and people's dwindling interest in the food they eat, where it comes from, how it tastes and how our food choices affect the rest of the world. Today, we have over 85,000 members in 132 countries. To become a member, or renew your membership to Slow Food USA, please visit:
www.slowfoodlongisland.org
or
www.slowfoodusa.org
Wednesday, June 24, 2009
FOOD, Inc at the JACOB BURNS
Food, Inc.
Opens July 1
Food, Inc. is more than a terrific movie-it's an important movie, one that nourishes your knowledge of how the world works (or, in this case, has started not to work)." (Entertainment Weekly)
In Food, Inc., filmmaker Robert Kenner talks to best-selling authors Eric Schlosser (Fast Food Nation) and Michael Pollan (Omnivore's Dilemma) to lift the veil on our nation's food industry—a nexus of mechanized farms, engineered food, and unhealthy practices that's been effectively hidden from American consumers by slick public relations and slack government regulation. This eye-opening documentary explains how unfettered corporations exploited laws and subsidies to create wholesale monopolies, and explores how modern developments in food production pose grave risks to our health and environment.
Opening Night, July 1, 7:00 pm with Frederick Kirschenmann, a longtime leader in sustainable agriculture. Kirschenmann is President of Stone Barns Center for Food and Agriculture in Pocantico Hills and Distinguished Fellow for the Leopold Center for Sustainable Agriculture at Iowa State University. He also oversees management of his family's 3,500-acre certified organic farm in south-central North Dakota.
Robert Kenner. 2008. 94 m. NR. US. Magnolia Pictures.
Opens July 1
Food, Inc. is more than a terrific movie-it's an important movie, one that nourishes your knowledge of how the world works (or, in this case, has started not to work)." (Entertainment Weekly)
In Food, Inc., filmmaker Robert Kenner talks to best-selling authors Eric Schlosser (Fast Food Nation) and Michael Pollan (Omnivore's Dilemma) to lift the veil on our nation's food industry—a nexus of mechanized farms, engineered food, and unhealthy practices that's been effectively hidden from American consumers by slick public relations and slack government regulation. This eye-opening documentary explains how unfettered corporations exploited laws and subsidies to create wholesale monopolies, and explores how modern developments in food production pose grave risks to our health and environment.
Opening Night, July 1, 7:00 pm with Frederick Kirschenmann, a longtime leader in sustainable agriculture. Kirschenmann is President of Stone Barns Center for Food and Agriculture in Pocantico Hills and Distinguished Fellow for the Leopold Center for Sustainable Agriculture at Iowa State University. He also oversees management of his family's 3,500-acre certified organic farm in south-central North Dakota.
Robert Kenner. 2008. 94 m. NR. US. Magnolia Pictures.
Tuesday, May 26, 2009
LUNCH BUNCH at THE COOKERY
Slow Food Westchester is hosting the final LUNCH BUNCH (until the fall) at:
THE COOKERY
39 Chestnut Street
Dobbs Ferry, NY
914-305-2336
THE COOKERY is David DiBaris' and his family latest Italian incarnation. David had been associated with Zuppa in Yonkers and Babbo in Manhattan. We are lucky to have an Italian Restaurant that cures it's own meat and makes its own pasta(actually Mom is making it in the basement). So, come make some new friends,catch up with old ones and support a new neighbor.
Friday, June 5, 2009
12:30-2:00
RSVP jan@jmaltby.com
THE COOKERY
39 Chestnut Street
Dobbs Ferry, NY
914-305-2336
THE COOKERY is David DiBaris' and his family latest Italian incarnation. David had been associated with Zuppa in Yonkers and Babbo in Manhattan. We are lucky to have an Italian Restaurant that cures it's own meat and makes its own pasta(actually Mom is making it in the basement). So, come make some new friends,catch up with old ones and support a new neighbor.
Friday, June 5, 2009
12:30-2:00
RSVP jan@jmaltby.com
Wednesday, May 13, 2009
POTLUCK at TABLE
Please join Slow Food Westchester
at Table Local Market
this month to celebrate the beginning of Spring.
Experience a very special local market that celebrates local farmers
and purveyors. You’ll also share sumptuous food provided by some of the most passionate locavores anywhere—you!
This event is a potluck, so we urge you to reach out to local farms and purveyors to create a dish you can share with others. The warm spring air might inspire dishes with early spring greens (lettuces or spinach), earthy morels, bright green asparagus, fingerling potatoes or perhaps the last apples of the season.
Table will provide wine (Fountain Head Wines/Bedford Hills), beer (Captain Lawrence/Pleasantville) and other refreshments, as well as a seasonal dish of their own along with spectacular local breads and cheeses.
So leave the kiddies at home and bring a seasonal dish and cutlery (we're trying to be sustainable here) to share with your fellow locavores.
Date: May 17th (Sunday)
Time: 6pm - 8pm
Address: Table Local Market
11 Babbit Road, Bedford Hills, NY 10507
Fee: $10 per person (and at least 1 dish per party, please)
Space Limit: This event is limited to 30 people
RSVP: slowfoodwestchester@gmail.com
Please let us know if you have any questions at all.
at Table Local Market
this month to celebrate the beginning of Spring.
Experience a very special local market that celebrates local farmers
and purveyors. You’ll also share sumptuous food provided by some of the most passionate locavores anywhere—you!
This event is a potluck, so we urge you to reach out to local farms and purveyors to create a dish you can share with others. The warm spring air might inspire dishes with early spring greens (lettuces or spinach), earthy morels, bright green asparagus, fingerling potatoes or perhaps the last apples of the season.
Table will provide wine (Fountain Head Wines/Bedford Hills), beer (Captain Lawrence/Pleasantville) and other refreshments, as well as a seasonal dish of their own along with spectacular local breads and cheeses.
So leave the kiddies at home and bring a seasonal dish and cutlery (we're trying to be sustainable here) to share with your fellow locavores.
Date: May 17th (Sunday)
Time: 6pm - 8pm
Address: Table Local Market
11 Babbit Road, Bedford Hills, NY 10507
Fee: $10 per person (and at least 1 dish per party, please)
Space Limit: This event is limited to 30 people
RSVP: slowfoodwestchester@gmail.com
Please let us know if you have any questions at all.
Wednesday, April 22, 2009
Come Meet the Chefs......
Slow Food Westchester and the Chef Association of Westchester and Lower Connecticut would like to invite you to, Come Meet the Chefs...... On Monday, May 4th, join us at the Doral Arrowood, 975 Anderson Hill Road, Rye Brook, NY as we present an introduction to Local Artisans, Sustainable Operations, Organic Products, The Slow Food Movement and the American Culinary Federation. There will be talks, demonstrations and sample tastings. Come early and enjoy a pre-meeting social in the THE PUB from 6-7. Meeting and Education 7-9 pm. RSVP at slowfoodwestchester@gmail.com.
On, Friday, May 1st our Monthly Lunch Bunch will be settling in Tarrytown at the newly opened Sweet Grass Grill. Come meet new friends and support the owners of Tomatillo in their new venture of local, fresh fare. RSVP to slowfoodwestchester@gmail.com
Thanks to all who made it to our SLOW COOKER POTLUCK. It was a great. success. I can't wait to open my recipe booklet and and try a few recipes. Watch for another potluck at the Mt. Kisco Child Care Center to celebrate the Fall Harvest
On, Friday, May 1st our Monthly Lunch Bunch will be settling in Tarrytown at the newly opened Sweet Grass Grill. Come meet new friends and support the owners of Tomatillo in their new venture of local, fresh fare. RSVP to slowfoodwestchester@gmail.com
Thanks to all who made it to our SLOW COOKER POTLUCK. It was a great. success. I can't wait to open my recipe booklet and and try a few recipes. Watch for another potluck at the Mt. Kisco Child Care Center to celebrate the Fall Harvest
Monday, April 13, 2009
SLOW FOOD WESTCHESTER IS BUSY
The women at Slow Food Westchester are busy. We are back and ready to move forward to promote the mission of Slow Food; assuring everyone has access to food that is good, clean and fair. We need to to make sure our children are left with a sustainable food system. One business that shares our concern is opening this weekend. TABLE,located at 11 Babbit Rd, in Bedford Hills, across from the train station.
Celebrate Spring, Celebrate Farmers!
TABLE's GRAND OPENING In Honor of Earth Day
Saturday April 18th - 10 AM - 6 PM
Open House with Special Tastings, Meet your Farmer, Children's Tastings.
Also, stop by THE BEDFORD POST tomorrow for our monthly Breakfast Meeting and share your ideas and meet great people.
Wednesday night is our SLOW FOOD POTLUCK at Mt. Kisco Day Care and May 1st is our third SLOW FOOD LUNCH BUNCH at the restaurant SWEETGRASS on Main Street in Tarrytown.
Take a moment and go on the Slow Food USA Food Blog to learn more about the recent article in the NY TIMES about the safety of Free-Range Pork.
Celebrate Spring, Celebrate Farmers!
TABLE's GRAND OPENING In Honor of Earth Day
Saturday April 18th - 10 AM - 6 PM
Open House with Special Tastings, Meet your Farmer, Children's Tastings.
Also, stop by THE BEDFORD POST tomorrow for our monthly Breakfast Meeting and share your ideas and meet great people.
Wednesday night is our SLOW FOOD POTLUCK at Mt. Kisco Day Care and May 1st is our third SLOW FOOD LUNCH BUNCH at the restaurant SWEETGRASS on Main Street in Tarrytown.
Take a moment and go on the Slow Food USA Food Blog to learn more about the recent article in the NY TIMES about the safety of Free-Range Pork.
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