The Blog Has Moved!

You may now find the Slow Food on Campus blog here.

Gourmet Goes Local

The respected and often tasteful Gourmet has put out a new restaurant guide, which you can find here. The focus this year is on the local, with the guide then broken down into sections (my personal favorite being "Meat Rules," but I'm from the Midwest).

Gourmet says that eating local has "caught on," which perhaps sounds far too much like fad-lingo (yes, I'm thinking whole-grain). Still, this does indeed gesture at our country's growing concern with what we eat, and an increase in the demand for a local product. Catching on is good; hanging on is better.

Luckily, we now have a short guide that showcases farm-to-table programs that are working--and working deliciously. Taste is, after all, a large part of Slow Food, and sometimes it is nice to be reminded.

Are You Involved in the Community Food Security Coalition?

Community Food Security Coalition is pleased to announce its two upcoming meetings:

12th annual Conference, scheduled for October 4-8, 2008 outside Philadelphia ( Cherry Hill, NJ)
- More details will be provided on this event as they become available.

Membership Meeting, November 11-12, 2007 Jekyll Island, Georgia.

-Held in a retreat setting along the beautiful Georgia coast, an hour from Jacksonville, FL, this event will be a different kind of meeting than CFSC has done in the past. Limited to 150 participants, it will be a more interactive and reflective meeting.

We want to engage you in thinking about and planning for the future of the community food security movement. We want your help in developing a common vision for our future direction.

We also want to engage you in thinking and planning for the future direction for CFSC, as a steward of the broader movement. How can our work promote, catalyze, and support an invigorated movement at all levels? CFSC is undertaking a strategic planning process, with a goal of making the organization more sustainable, inclusive, and responsive to members. This meeting is an integral part of that process.

We will be looking for your feedback at this meeting: to help us define our niche, to help shape the structures by which we gain membership input into our activities, and to shape our programs and committees. We encourage you to join existing member committees, or to create new working groups on the topics you feel are most important to the movement and your work.

The meeting is open to CFSC members. Non-members can join when they register. Registration starts on September 17th and closes on October 23rd.

See http://www.foodsecurity.org/2007MemberMeeting.html for more details.

Contact our office at 310-822-5410, or aleta@foodsecurity.org with any questions

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