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It’s been a suspense-filled few weeks, waiting to get the go-ahead from Slow Food USA, but good news arrived just yesterday for the dedicated founders/board members of a proposed new local Slow Food chapter. Slow Food S.G.V. is to support all that is on the flip side of today’s fast paced food and culture. The [...]
The filmmakers who brought you Food Matters, an insightful documentary looking at modern medicine and its alternatives, are hosting a free worldwide online premiere of their latest film Hungry For Change. This film presents some of the world’s prominent authorities in natural medicine and nutrition to empower you to take health into your own hands. [...]
Last week, Nisha announced an event titled “Who Owns the Future of Food?” where panelists had a dialogue about Genetically Modified Organisms here in downtown Los Angeles. She reminds us that the majority of food commercially available has been contaminated by these laboratory products. Many people have an issue with that and some people have decided to do something [...]
January 26, 2012 by Davey Fresh is a film that celebrates those who are re-inventing the food system. Featuring some of my favorite activists such as Michael Pollan, Will Allen, and Joel Salatin, this film shows the vision that they are creating for both the short and long term – an alternative to what the industrial complex has to offer. This is [...]
Culture Club 101 is a Pasadena-based co-op that specializes in providing its members with cultured foods (i.e. foods that contain live probiotic cultures). From lacto-fermented sodas, to pâtés, to thick yogurt, to kombucha, they are able to please their members with biologically active yumminess. For generations, cultured foods have been a tradition of many cuisines from around the [...]
December 27, 2011 by Davey Who doesn’t like ice cream? I know I enjoy it – my new favorite spot is Mother Moo Creamery. I finally had the pleasure of visiting this new artisanal shop in the foothills of the San Gabriel Valley. Karen Klemens, owner of Mother Moo, isn’t new to the art of creating delicious treats. She has won [...]
November 14, 2011 by Davey This isn’t just any old pumpkin pie made with your average pumpkin from the holiday season pop-up pumpkin patch. This pumpkin was hand-sown into the soil and raised with love at the The Growing Home in Diamond Bar. Now that the pumpkins have been harvested, Iris Marialaki, from the Cuatro Caminos Collective, has taken on the task [...]
November 7, 2011 by Davey The 5th Annual Opportunity Green Business Conference is the largest B2B multidisciplinary sustainability conference, bringing together today’s leading companies and visionaries, and showcasing the authentic players, sought-after opportunities and profound innovations driving today’s new green economy. From Fortune 500 powerhouses to inventive startups, this conference attracts over 1000 professionals and executive decision-makers from around the globe. The [...]
Hippocrates said, “Let thy Food be thy Medicine and thy Medicine be thy Food”. That is the message from the founding father of modern medicine echoed in this controversial new documentary film Food Matters. With nutritionally-depleted foods, chemical additives, and our tendency to rely upon pharmaceutical drugs to treat what’s wrong with our malnourished bodies, [...]
