Digest - Blogsnacks: Feminism and slow food, Hillary likes USDA name change, FoodMed reporting

Slow Food makes women feel bad?: Bay Area food writer turned blogger Jennifer Jeffreys has a fantastic post about whether the SOLE food movement is counter to feminism. She writes: "I started thinking about how we as women feel such tremendous pressure to stay svelte, balance our budgets, keep a journal, send birthday cards, raise brilliant children, work on our relationships and keep our pedicures fresh, and now we must also research, procure, and prepare food that is sustainably produced, locally grown, and in season." See what she concludes… (Writer: The Feminist in My Kitchen (Part 2) via Chow's Grinder)

So what are urban farms, chopped liver?: The National Rural Assembly asked Sen. Clinton if she would support changing the "name and the mission" of the Department of Agriculture to the Department of Rural Affairs. The presidential candidate said it sounded like a dandy idea. (Daily Yonder -- an awesome new site)

Everyday heroes: Supermom Ali or the The Cleaner Plate Club blog is at the FoodMed 2007 conference, where she's reporting on the connections between our broken food system and public health. She has a great post up today about how people frame their relationships with food — "like doing battle with the enemy" — and a later one taking on the rBST op-ed in the Times.

Pueblo produce: High school students in Zuni, New Mexico, established an edible schoolyard. The garden will combine traditional Zuni agriculture with today's greenhouse techniques to grow produce for school lunches and for sale to the community. (World Changing)

The salad side of the street: Bay Area transplant Tea celebrates how in Seattle, it's not just lawn and flowers that people are growing in their front yards — they’re growing food as well. (Tea & Cookies)