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I just deleted 968 (mostly food) blogs from my reader because I just couldn't handle it anymore. Now I am going to start over.

SamBreach at 7:28PM on 09/04/08

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Dispatch from Slow Food Nation: Looking Forward

Hi Jen - great post.
I was very glad that the SFN added the Alemany Farm event to their program, although it would have been even better if those people had actually stayed and volunteered and actually worked the farm for the afternoon. I wish there had been more events like that. Your idea for a half day community commitment is brilliant. That's *exactly* the kind of thing I was searching for with this event, which is why I ended up at the farm. I also agree with all your other points and would like to add another suggestion: Hands-on workshops about to can/preserve/ferment/cure/etc. This is the type of education we who are interested in this kind of thing currently have to teach ourselves. It would be great to get some community support in how best to do this and preserve, not waste, seasonal foods when tey are at their peak!

SamBreach at 1:44PM on 09/02/08

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From Talk

How many do you read?

I just deleted 968 (mostly food) blogs from my reader because I just couldn't handle it anymore. Now I am going to start over.

SamBreach at 7:28PM on 09/04/08

From Serious Eats

Dispatch from Slow Food Nation: Looking Forward

Hi Jen - great post.
I was very glad that the SFN added the Alemany Farm event to their program, although it would have been even better if those people had actually stayed and volunteered and actually worked the farm for the afternoon. I wish there had been more events like that. Your idea for a half day community commitment is brilliant. That's *exactly* the kind of thing I was searching for with this event, which is why I ended up at the farm. I also agree with all your other points and would like to add another suggestion: Hands-on workshops about to can/preserve/ferment/cure/etc. This is the type of education we who are interested in this kind of thing currently have to teach ourselves. It would be great to get some community support in how best to do this and preserve, not waste, seasonal foods when tey are at their peak!

SamBreach at 1:44PM on 09/02/08

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How many do you read?

Not too many, but the very first food blog I got hooked on is The Girl Who Ate Everything -- SE's own Robyn Lee! *holla at Robyn*

Discovered SE through Robyn.. the only other blog I frequent is Eater SF, and the occasional visit at the Chowhound boards.

tinytophats at 3:58PM on 09/05/08

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I love The Paupered Chef. I've followed Blake & Nick's adventures for the past few years and have never been disappointed.

Ruhlman.com is also great. Most of all though, I love Michael's books. If you haven't read The Making of, Reach of, & Soul of a Chef series, I highly recommend them.

David Lebovitz's blog always inspires me--look up his carottes rapees recipe--my life is better for it. Plus, I'm hoping to join him & Mort Rosenblum on the 'Grand Chocolate Adventure' trip in Paris next year..!

TheChocolateLife.com. is a chocophile community. My 'posting' name there is Ek Chuah (the mayan patron god of cocoa, b/c i'm a big, big nerd.)

lastnightsdinner.net never fails to make my tummy growl.

As for the trashy, fun blogs I visit: gofugyourself.com leaves me in stitches, Rich does a fabulous job at fourfour.typepad.com, and I hit up pajiba.com daily.

Lots of downtime at work-lol.

gastronomeg at 11:39AM on 09/05/08

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How many do you read?

I have no idea why I don't have Google Reader set up. I'm going to tackle that this weekend (in between re-painting and re-decorating my apartment, grocery shopping, cooking/baking, working on setting up new online magazine, etc. etc....how does life get so busy??!)...
Thanks to everyone who posted their favorite food blogs.
I'm another OBSESSED food bloggie and I try to update my own, but it truly is so time-consuming!! How does everyone make time to create and maintain these beautiful works of art!?
I regularly read:
Orangette, Smitten Kitchen, Gluten-Free Girl (although I am not), Matt Bites, Amateur Gourmet, Tea and Cookies, Eat Drink One Woman, Nectar and Light, Bake and Shake, 101 Cookbooks.
And of course Serious Eats and Chowhound.
I have at least 200 more bookmarked on my home and work computers.
There just aren't enough hours in a day...

jbeach at 11:17AM on 09/05/08

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Dispatch from Slow Food Nation: Looking Forward

Jen, lovely post. I think your prescription for a better SLN are all good ones. I especially love the community service event suggestion.

I truly hope The Powers that Be are listening.

grubreport at 2:54PM on 09/03/08

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Dispatch from Slow Food Nation: Looking Forward

Actually, my reaction to this summing up is "quit making Slow Food about San Francisco or any of the other cities in which it might turn up."

It needs to be national and educational, and although you may go to SF for the convention/show, you should be carrying the clean food, sustainable agriculture, real food message to every part of your world.

Children are growing up not knowing milk comes from cows. Many of them eat manufactured food from morning until bedtime. There are grownups who don't know anything of nutrition and have children whose nutrition is their responsibility.

There are many rumors about the US food supply and Slow Food aficionados need to learn the truth and spread it. Is the meat full of hormones? Is the milk tainted with them, too? Does the government still fulfill its role of keeping the citizens safe on the food front, or is no one minding the store?

There's still time to fight for decent food, and that's where the energy needs to go, IMO.

Judith in Umbria at 8:45AM on 09/03/08

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Dispatch from Slow Food Nation: Looking Forward

As a person who volunteered Friday-Sunday, I, too, went and came away conflicted. I don't think I've ever been to an event attended by so many people that pleased everyone, or even most. SF is a hard crowd, most especially seen by the local media coverage this past week end.

I am a little confused by your first bullet point though. Having worked for various food producers and farmers at the Ferry Plaza Farmers' Market off and on for the last 10 + years, I have seen less and less people buying and more and more looking. And many farms have dropped out of that market because of it's downturn in sales since the move.

Also I don't take offense to Mr. Kummer's quoted comment and it appears, after reading all of your posts on SFN, that you don't really either. I read his point to mean that SFN will be a failure if most people walk through, buy a little, look a little and go home and cook their delicious foodstuffs, and stop there.

The truth is that none of us know who took what away, who learned something new, who became inspired to do more, and who went to Civic Center day after day just for the biscuits and the star chef watching.

I say it's all part and parcel of an event of this scale, and what each of us do with our conflicted feelings to better educate Slow Food or anything else is made all the better with our energies, no matter how they've been formed.

Thank you for exceptional coverage. Glad to know at least one of the people I was working so hard for appreciated it.

shunafish at 2:22AM on 09/03/08

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Dispatch from Slow Food Nation: Looking Forward

Agreed on the community service aspect. I called to volunteer a little late in the game (2 weeks ago) and was told the only available spots were during normal business hours. I would have been happy to give as much time as I could but the conflict with my day job made that hard. I know I should have signed up earlier, but perhaps making volunteering easier would be great to help the cause.

kitchenbea at 6:20PM on 09/02/08

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