Thoughts from (and provoked by) the final panel at Slow Food Nation in San Francisco.
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Snapshot from Slow Food Nation: Native American plants in the Victory Garden
I had intended to do some “man in the garden” interviews while I hung around the Victory Garden watching the crowds come through. But my first set of victims were so interesting I talked to them for the entire half hour I had in between lectures.
Maestra Macuilxochitl, Luz Alvarez-Martinez, and Carlos Ruiz-Martinez turned out to […]
Snapshot from Slow Food Nation: Slow on the Go vendor Fatted Calf
Late Saturday afternoon I ran into Taylor Boetticher, who with Toponia Miller are the meat geniuses behind Fatted Calf and the youngest rock stars of the Bay Area’s charcuterie boom. (They still laugh about me calling their duck-liver mousse “sex on toast.”) Fatted Calf had by far the longest queue of the Slow on the […]
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