Slow Food Canada Articles http://www.slowfood.ca/news_articles.php Articles republished on Slow Food Canada for the Slow Food Canada Community. en-us Thu, 24 Apr 2008 23:21:33 -0500 Thu, 24 Apr 2008 23:21:33 -0500 webed@slowfood.ca webed@slowfood.ca Slow Food Canada Launches Three New Ark of Taste Items http://www.slowfood.ca/news_articles.php April 7, 2008 – Slow Food Canada celebrated the addition of three wild foods, miner’s lettuce, nodding onion, and Saskatoon berries, to the Ark of Taste with two quintessentially ‘slow’ events, a five-course dinner and a taste workshop held as the finale to a Stinging Nettle Festival celebrating the... Mon, 14 Apr 2008 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.slowfood.ca/news_articles.php?id=58 Cowichan Bay Unveils New Food Map and Takes Next Steps Towards First Città Slow Certification in North America http://www.slowfood.ca/news_articles.php Cowichan Bay, BC – April 4, 2008. In an open community meeting this week, Cowichan Bay’s new, hand-illustrated food map of the region was officially unveiled and the small district took its next step towards official certification as North America’s first Cittandagrave; Slow. Cowichan Bay village, w... Mon, 14 Apr 2008 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.slowfood.ca/news_articles.php?id=57 The Revolution Will Not Be Pasteurized http://www.slowfood.ca/news_articles.php The agents arrived before dawn. They concealed the squad car and police van behind trees, and there, on the road that runs past Michael Schmidt’s farm in Durham, Ontario, they waited for the dairyman to make his move. A team from the Ministry of Natural Resources had been watching Schmidt for months... Wed, 26 Mar 2008 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.slowfood.ca/news_articles.php?id=56 A New Global Oil Quandry: Costly Fuel Means Costly Calories http://www.slowfood.ca/news_articles.php Rising prices for cooking oil are forcing residents of Asia’s largest slum, in Mumbai, India, to ration every drop. Bakeries in the United States are fretting over higher shortening costs. And in Malaysia, brand-new factories built to convert vegetable oil into diesel sit idle, their owners unable t... Sun, 17 Feb 2008 00:00:00 -0600 http://www.slowfood.ca/news_articles.php?id=55 To Prepare for Changes in the Environment, We Must Rethink the Ways We Live http://www.slowfood.ca/news_articles.php Although no one knows what the decades ahead will bring precisely, there are enough indicators available to say with confidence that the 21st century represents a new era. Whether the concern is climate change, peak oil, overpopulation, species extinction, food and water shortages or something else... Fri, 25 Jan 2008 00:00:00 -0600 http://www.slowfood.ca/news_articles.php?id=54