Celebrations & Fundraisers
An organic garden grows on the roof of a touring school bus.
Sustainable food advocates tour in topsy-turvy bus with garden on top to raise awareness for locally grown produce, garden on White House lawn. Benefits, beyond health, include lower transportation costs, community building, and reconnecting to nation's agricultural roots. Skeptic calls push for First Garden a shallow stunt.
By Brian Reed
National Public Radio/All Things Considered 2008-12-24 (entry)
Hot ticket at inauguration festivities will be charity dinner for 80, cooked by Alice Waters at Phillips Gallery. Other culinary luminaries - Daniel Boulud (Restaurant Daniel), Dan Barber (Stone Barns), Ricky Bayless (Frontera Grill) - will cook for 20-30 guests in homes around the city. Dinners benefit anti-hunger efforts in D.C. For tickets, call (510) 548-4795 or click 'See also' after January 1.
By Marian Burros
The New York Times 2008-12-22 (entry)
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Americans who surged to the polls to give Barack Obama their votes are ready right now to give more. All you with time and energy left over: Help homeless and hungry people. Work for an environmental organization, a food pantry or a community garden, or all three. Tutor a vet who is aiming for college. Some local cause is struggling. Find it and pitch in.
By Lawrence Downs
The New York Times 2008-11-10 (entry)
As economy falters, friends and neighbors with stake in community find that local food is investment opportunity with tangible return - a share in risks, certainly, but also bounty of vegetables, seafood, milk or discounts at restaurants. And: Town unites around food, agriculture to save itself (click 'See also').
By Peter Andrey Smith
Gourmet.com 2008-10-08 (entry)
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As food prices increase, urban and rural citizens engage by growing their own food as well as noticing the neglected harvests around them. Gleaning an overabundance of zucchini, or pears to stock food pantries, experts say, ties the community together.' And: In Seattle, Community Fruit Tree Harvest sends volunteers to harvest, then deliver produce to local food banks and meal programs.
By Patricia Leigh Brown
The New York Times 2008-09-14 (entry)
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In first event of its kind in U.S., Slow Food Nation expected to draw 50,000 to San Francisco over Labor Day weekend. Organizers hope to change world socially, ecologically and politically through people's stomachs. Slow Food, begun in Italy in 1986, works against industrialization of food production. Critics see food snobbery in group.
By Stacy Finz
San Francisco Chronicle 2008-08-26 (entry)
Slow Food USA hoping to draw 50,000-plus to its Woodstock at Labor Day weekend festival. In preparation, it has turned San Francisco's City Hall lawn into edible garden, accepted corporate partners and raised more than $2 million. Group will showcase inclusive, independent direction for U.S. branch (Italian parent organization criticized by columnist as elitist global movement to combat globalism - click 'See also').
By Kim Severson
The New York Times 2008-07-23 (entry)
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Democrats' guidelines for convention caterers include half the meal of fruits and/or vegetables, foods in a variety of colors, no fried foods, 70 percent organic and/or local, reusable silverware and no bottled water. Official promises no grease police for those who sneak funnel cakes. And: Denver councilman declares fry-free menu anti-Southern (click 'See also').
By Sara Burnett and Julie Poppen
Rocky Mountain News 2008-07-11 (entry)
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City adds greater police presence to its popular 'Taste of Chicago' event after four persons shot following holiday fireworks display. Shootings occurred a mile away from festival, officials said. Sixty-five vendors are offering a total of 287 items for tastings. For interactive map, click 'See also.'
By Angela Rozas And Jason Meisner
Chicago Tribune 2008-07-04 (entry)
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For Nowruz, the Persian New Year celebration, olives represent fertility and love.
For 3,000 years, Persians (and those of Persian descent) have celebrated their New Year on the first day of spring. Najmieh Batmanglij, a cookbook author, celebrates the 13 days of Nowruz with spring herbs, fish (for abundance), eggs (for fertility) and soup with noodles, which symbolizes unraveling the difficulties in the year to come.
By Bonny Wolf
National Public Radio 2008-03-16 (entry)
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To enhance participation, set up food booths at your job and financial advice fair, then place the only seating in front of the speakers at the convention center. That's what the Hartford, Conn., organizer of the Latino Expo did. With plates full of steaming tamales, skewered chicken and fried pork skins, the crowds of people sat down to eat - and listen.
By Lynn Doan
The Hartford Courant (may require subscription) 2008-02-24 (entry)
Superbowl Sunday calls for exhaustive taste-testing of dip-worthy potato chips. Some tasters like them pale, others deep and dark, some like them thick and some thinner. Low-fat and baked versions aren't on the radar. And the best? Kettle Krinkle Cut Chips.
By Carol Ness
San Francisco Chronicle 2008-01-30 (entry)
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Internet matchmaking service links dedicated dairy farmers, who live a lonely, twice-daily milking kind of life, with possible mates who aren't intimidated by tractors and don't hold their noses while walking in the pastures.
By Carolyn Starks
Chicago Tribune 2008-01-02 (entry)
If you grow it, will they win? A fan shows support for beloved Buckeyes by interspersing yellow-leafed soybeans with the more common green-leafed type in his employer's test plots.
By Mary Beth Breckenridge
Akron Beacon-Journal (OH) 2007-11-09 (entry)
Buoyed by Arab custom of big family meals, iftar celebrations have become lavish celebrations of sugary snacks, with waistlines and health problems following, says French physician in new diet book, "Chrono-nutrition - Ramadan special."
By Kerstin Gehmlich
Reuters 2007-09-14 (entry)
Gin Gin Cane Cutting Festival in Australia brings the old-time sugar industry experts and other contestants together, timing them to cut a section of sugarcane by hand, the way it was done before mechanical harvesters, while racing the clock and each other.
By Jodie van de Wetering
Australian Broadcasting Corporation 0000-00-00 (entry)
Lamprey harvest is a waterlogged, delicious tradition for Native Americans in the Pacific Northwest that begins with pulling them off rocks where they have flung themselves - just watch out for those big round bloodsucking mouths full of sharp teeth.
By Ann Dornfeld
National Public Radio 2007-08-10 (entry)
Son's battle with cancer, and his effort to eat more healthfully during battle, inspires grieving mother to honor her son and support leukemia resesarch by compile cookbook and donating proceeds.
By Erin Sauder
Geneva Republican (IL) (entry)
