Special Price for Slow Food Members

The Connection: 2008 Arts & Crafts Conference is pleased to present The Art & Craft of Dining Experience at the Roycroft Inn on Saturday October 25 at 7pm as part of the at the 5^h annual conference celebrating Western New York’s turn of the century Arts & Crafts Trail.

Chef Andrew Nuernberg and Dan Garvey from the historic Roycroft Inn is working with Slow Food Buffalo member Sandy Starks to create yet another spectacular Art & Craft of Dining© event. The dinner emphasizes Slow Food principles and features products produced locally and that are sustainable.

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The New York Times Magazine’s food issue is currently online and available for your reading pleasure.  It may be a little less comfortable to sip Sunday morning coffee at your desk with a computer as opposed to in bed with the paper, but we think it’s worth the sacrifice.

The periodical pleases the home gardner with a story about trials of weeding and tending toward food freedom, while another piece discusses the ban on tipping in an urban San Diego restaurant.  Perhaps more poignant is Michael Pollan’s exploration of food policy as it relates to our presidential choice, or a look at changing the way kids perceive healthy food through advertising.  There is also opinion and insight regarding the locavore movement and much, much more.

So snuggle up with a mug of well-brewed fair trade joe and enjoy!

–Photo courtesy of The New York Times

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This just in from Slow Food USA:

What will you be eating this Halloween? Is your candy Good, Clean, and Fair?

Slow Food USA has partnered with Global Exchange to spread the word about where our chocolate comes from on Halloween night with Reverse Trick-or-Treating.  Last Halloween, thousands of children, students, parents and others gave Fair Trade chocolate BACK to the households who gave them candy while Trick-or-Treating.  This year, we hope to reach a quarter of a million households across the country in an effort to further awareness about where our food comes from and how it is produced.

While Fair Trade does not address all hardships faced by farmers abroad, its goals are to provide a better price and support sustainable agricultural development. A good resource for reading more about Fair Trade is on the Fair Trade Federation website.

How Reverse Trick-or-Treating Works: The chocolate is attached to a card with information about social and environmental justice issues in the cocoa industry and how buying Fair Trade certified chocolate provides a solution. When someone gives you candy while trick-or-treating, you simply hand them a chocolate and card back.  Reverse Trick-or-Treating chocolate and cards are free. Participants pay only the cost of postage. Visit the Reverse Trick-or-Treating website to request cards and chocolate. The deadline to request cards is October 13.

–by Slow Food USA staffer Julia De Martini Day

Slow Food Buffalo will be doing its part to promote this project by offering 500 of these samples to those attending the Elmwood Bidwell Farmers Market Harvest Celebration on October 25th.  Come out and see us and Chef Bruce Wieszala who will be doing a cooking demonstration at the Slow Food tent using local foods from 10 a.m. - Noon.

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