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The first vertical school garden

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Published April 14, 2010 at 9:53 p.m.

by intern Lila Wilmerding ... On March 17, the first vertical school garden in San Francisco was unveiled at Sanchez Elementary School in the Mission District. This vertical garden joins Sanchez’s existing traditional garden, which teachers have been integrating into their classes for the past couple of years ... The garden, originally cared for by a retired teacher, found support from Slow Food San Francisco and was visited by Slow Food founder Carlo Petrini in 2007. The program has

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Italian minister bites back after Guardian critic slates the McItaly

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Published Feb. 2, 2010 at 5:42 a.m.

Blog by Matthew Fort calling burger 'devilish' prompts angry response from Luca Zaia to 'Stalinist' food writer ... When Matthew Fort, Guardian food writer and lifelong lover of all things Italian, heard that the country's agriculture minister had endorsed McDonald's new McItaly burger, his gorge began to rise ... So incensed was Fort by Luca Zaia's comments about how the burgers would impart "an imprint of Italian flavours to our youngsters" that he wrote an irate column on the Guardian's Word

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Slow Food speeds up

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Published Sept. 24, 2009 at 6:28 p.m.

The UK Slow Food movement is in a state of rapid change. What do you think the organisation should be about? ... In a wind-flustered tent in the town of North Berwick last weekend I had a bit of a revelation. My 10-year-old son's nose was deep in a container full of cotton wool, sniffing hard. "That's rosemary," he said. A little later he had his hand in a blue box feeling a hidden object that was inside: "That's rosemary again" he said. And he was right ... He'd just recognised a herb by smell

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The slow death of Slow Food UK

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Published Feb. 19, 2009 at 4:30 a.m.

Slow Food UK is in crisis. Slow Food itself is a weird organisation. It has a charismatic founder/leader, Carlo Petrini, who presides over and directs the movement from Italy. It purports to be a grassroots movement, inherently democratic because the only thing you have to do to qualify for membership and join is to pay your sub - the £35 fee goes to Slow Food UK and the new member is assigned to a local 'convivium' ... (The vocabulary of Slow Food is its most peculiar feature – there are

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Gavi, The Great Piedmont White

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Published Jan. 28, 2009 at 10:30 a.m.

Our guest writer, Maurizio Fava, is an expert in Italian wines. A sommelier and consultant for top Italian wineries, Maurizio is sharing his knowledge with Italy in SF’s readers. Find his full bio on the “About” page.Gavi wine had been called by Carlo Petrini, SlowFood President, “the great Piedmont’s white”. More than 70% is sold [ ... ] ...

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