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Slow Food Movement Picking up Speed on Vancouver Island
Submitted by Stefan Lehmann on Tuesday, October 20, 2009
Filed under On-Line News
Great article in September's issue of EAT Magazine about our convivium.
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Butternut Squash Soup
Submitted by Eva Cherneff on Tuesday, October 20, 2009
Filed under Seasonal Recipes
Butternut Squash Soup, Inspired by Foxglove Farm on Salt Spring Island
Serves 6
By Eva Cherneff
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Apple Butter
Submitted by Stefan Lehmann on Tuesday, October 20, 2009
Filed under Seasonal Recipes
This is a great recipe, modified from Pam Corbins Cider Apple Butter recipe. As an additional bonus, you can use the peel and cores from the apples to create a pectin stock for spring fruits...see the N.B. at bottom.
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Braised Pork Shoulder Butt with Blueberry Sauce
Submitted by Don Genova on Monday, October 19, 2009
Filed under Seasonal Recipes
Getting to know the farmers that produce my food remains one of my favourite pastimes. While it's hard for us living on Vancouver Island to source all of our ingredients locally, there's no reason why some of our most important and most expensive purchases shouldn't be done locally. It takes just a little bit of effort to find farmers who are dedicated to providing a clean, tasty product.
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Slow Food's Canadian Wild Salmon Manifesto
Submitted by Stefan Lehmann on Sunday, October 18, 2009
Filed under Articles
Drafted by Dr. John Volpe, a Marine Foods Systems Specialist from the School of Environmental Studies at the University of Victoria, British Columbia, and Dr. Sinclair Philip, Canadian Councillor to the International Slow Food Board. This manifesto was passed unanimously by the convivium leaders present at the National Meeting of Slow Food Canada, in Calgary on April 23rd, 2006.
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Michael Pollan Video: Deep Agriculture Part 2
Submitted by Stefan Lehmann on Sunday, October 18, 2009
Filed under On-Line News
This Link TV special brings you celebrated author Michael Pollan as he takes on the industrialization of the U.S. food system, and proposes dramatic solutions to Americas addiction to mechanized agriculture and processed foods.
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Michael Pollan Video: Deep Agriculture
Submitted by Stefan Lehmann on Sunday, October 18, 2009
Filed under On-Line News
This Link TV special brings you celebrated author Michael Pollan (The Omnivores Dilemma, In Defense of Food) as he takes on the industrialization of the U.S. food system, and proposes dramatic solutions to Americas addiction to mechanized agriculture and processed foods.
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Eating local can help ease pressure on the planet
Submitted by Stefan Lehmann on Sunday, October 18, 2009
Filed under On-Line News
In a bid to get Canadians to consider their impact on the planet, World Wildlife Fund Canada has launched a campaign to encourage people to not only eat local but also to use food as a springboard to see how theyre affecting the planet....
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Carlo Petrini Backs Australian Fast Food Protest
Submitted by Stefan Lehmann on Sunday, October 18, 2009
Filed under On-Line News
A CAMPAIGN against the construction of a McDonald's near the Spanish Steps in Rome in 1986 was the catalyst for an international movement against fast food and the destruction of local food traditions.
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60 Minutes piece on Alice Waters
Submitted by Stefan Lehmann on Saturday, October 17, 2009
Filed under On-Line News
Alice Waters has been preaching the virtues of cultivating fresh food for decades.
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