Does Slow Food Equal Good Food?

The international organization Slow Food International, founded in Italy, purports to be the final word on all things slow – and good – about food. Unfortunately, “slow food” also has taken on the connotation of “expensive food.” While Slow Food International claims to focus on regional cooking and local food production served as a communal experience, many of their events fall under the category of “too pricey.”

Preserving Our Farmland

Good local food depends on farming and farming requires clean, fertile soils in functional working landscapes. “And once productive farmland is converted to residential or commercial use, it’s converted forever. It’s practically impossible to bring it back,” Steve Ventura, University of Wisconsin, Land Information and Computer Graphics Facility.