Banding Together for a Farmer and Terra Madre Delegate

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Published July 19, 2010 at 11:46 a.m.
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Slow Food Indy comes together to support a farm family after a tragedy ... By Corrie Quinn, member of Slow Food Indianapolis ... “Happy is said to be the family which can eat onions together. They are, for the time being, separate from the world.” - Charles Dudley Warner, My Summer in a Garden, 1871 ... Folks with a thumb any shade of green can guess that farming is risky business: betting on the weather and against pests, doubling down on a chef’s preference and nearly folding when

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Georgian Wine on CNN

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Published April 23, 2010 at 1:19 a.m.
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I love broadening my own wine horizons, and I'm always surprised at how narrowly most non-wine-focused media see the world of wine ... So I was quite surprised to see a whole segment today on CNN all about Georgian wine ... No not the Southern State ... The country ... The country of Georgia hosts one of the oldest winemaking cultures in the world, and is regarded by some as the birthplace of winemaking. Georgian wine, of which I've had a scant couple of bottles in my life, comes in many

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Napa's Best Cabernet: Tasting at Premiere Napa Valley 2010

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Published Feb. 24, 2010 at 1:14 a.m.
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One of my favorite events each year involves the opportunity to sample some of the best wines that Napa produces in a given vintage ... At Premiere Napa Valley, an auction that serves as the world's most expensive "bake sale" to support the efforts of the non-profit Napa Valley Vintners Association, journalists like me get a chance to sneak a taste of hundreds of unique wines that are purchased by the nation's top wine retailers at staggeringly high prices ... This year, as every year, 200

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2007 Cornelissen MunJebel 4 Bianco, Etna, Sicily

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Published Feb. 14, 2010 at 2:18 a.m.
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Many of the world's greatest wines are also the most unlikely ... Unlikely because most sane, rational, educated, and professional winemakers wouldn't be caught dead making wine in some of the strange ways and places that yield the truly exciting ... It takes a strong vision, or as some might suggest, a special breed of insanity to break all the rules of modern winemaking and winegrowing, but those who break such rules often follow their passions across the border without a moment's thought to

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Il Canto di Fondo Antico Nero D'Avola 2006 Sicilia IGT

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Published Feb. 8, 2010 at 7:39 a.m.
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Attended Vino 2010 (Italian Wine Week) here in NYC last week and had the chance to meet many new friends and experience new Italian wines ... This lively and engaging Nero D'Avola from Il Canto di Fondo Antico, Sicilia is vinified in Stainless steel and aged in French oak barriques for 14 months and six months in bottle ... Wafting with ripe cherries, then morphing into floral aromas, and violets, then a bit of prune, contrasting with exotic flavors of white pepper, green peppers, red licorice

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Food Stuff: A Terra Cotta Dish for Earthy Baking

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Published Jan. 13, 2010 at 2:34 p.m.
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Southwest France has its own baking dish, an extra-thick slope-sided terra cotta bowl called a cassole, for making the region’s succulent cassoulets ...

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Saving the Family Farm

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Published Dec. 22, 2009 at 4:39 p.m.

Usually when we talk about saving the family farm, we are referring to the need for a new generation of farmers to replace the aging farmer population, the need for affordable land for these new young farmers, and the need for economic assistance for the failing rural economy ... Looking back on the past decade and looking ahead to 2010, it might also start to mean something else.  Climate change has brought new woes to the family farm in the form of floods, drought and tornadoes, as well as

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Terra Madre Day and the Georgia Flooded Farms Relief Fund

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Published Dec. 10, 2009 at 10:01 p.m.
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This year, in honor of Slow Food’s 20th anniversary, we celebrate Terra Madre Day—a day for celebrating eating locally, and honoring our local food communities.  ... Unfortunately today we also bring news of a “Terra Madre” community that has been adversely affected by extreme weather, an occurrence that has become all too familiar, especially to our Terra Madre communities in Georgia who have been hit especially hard this year.  ... A tornado barreled through the area around Ranger,

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Low Income CSAs

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Published Nov. 18, 2009 at 7:21 p.m.

by intern Grace Mitchell ... I live in a food desert.  It’s unexpected, considering that I live in the consumptive bustling metropolis of New York City where much is available to a person twenty-four hours of each day.  ... More thoughtfully considered, my food-parched neighborhood isn’t a conundrum; I live in a city gilded in concrete. I don’t live amid green and golden fields of pasture.  Not that fields are guarantors of food oases: Nebraska can be quite the food desert, too--driving

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Granny’s Recipe

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Published Oct. 28, 2009 at 8:42 p.m.

Our Slow Food friends in Paris-Bastille chapter are after your grand-mère.  Err ... rather, they are after your grandma’s recipes.  Their new family treasures project will be an online collection featuring tried and true recipes passed down through families.  And the three best recipes submitted before November 12 will be prepared as a meal at an upcoming youth Terra Madre gathering in Tours, France.  ... Submitted recipes should have only common and economical ingredients, be easy enough

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