Passing the word about Slow Food

[Greg]

Chris, you did something wrong. Actually, you just misread, is all. It's $60.00

[Papa]

Thank you guys!

It feels great to be here!

[Devotay]

Gee, Chris, I guess it's an easy mistake to make, since I misread it myself in your post. (thank God for Dyslexia, it always gives me an excuse)

The correct amount is $60.00, that's all. Also, there is a $75 couples offering

Peace,
kmf

[Kimmie]

Hi Chef Kurt,

Ooo, you are subversive. I'm considering it. Especially if it's $60 and not $60,000!!

[shroomgirl]

Just signed a grant letter in connection with our SLU dieticians and some farmers to teach Habitat for Humanity participants on how to cook food from their organic garden/coop CSA.
There are $25,000 grants for school gardens available or were last Spring. You may wanna check into grants. I got 2 last year one through Mo Dept of Ag for market pr($2800) easy one...
The other $5000 for inschool farmer-chef-dietician teaching nutrition and sustainable farming practices....
You have several components in your program that set you up for major grant fundage....from several different sources.

[Devotay]

Thanks, Shroomgirl. actually we have begun that process already, applying for a major grant through the Leopold Center for Sustainable Agriculture at Iowa State. We hope that this will give us a "Grubstake" (so to speak)for looking for additional funding.

Peace,
kmf

[SeattleDeb]

Was on Mollie Katzen's site - she's referencing Eco-Gastronomy: The Slow Food Movement and linking to slowfood.com as well.

http://www.molliekatzen.com/messages.htm

[Devotay]

YAY! Go Mollie! Wake the kids! Call the Neighbors! Tell people in elevators and at stop lights!

"We are all going to the same place. Let us go there slowly." - Carlo Petrini

Peace,
kmf

[Papa]

Dear Kurt:

I do not know if you have heard the latest news about McDonalds in France. It is like a story out of Les Miserables!

"A worker at a McDonald's restaurant in France should not have been sacked for giving a beggar free burgers, an industrial tribunal has ruled.

The tribunal in the southern town of Albi fined the fast food joint's manager Pierre Loiret-Fournier 6,000 francs (565 pounds) for wrongfully dismissing employee Remi Millet in March last year.

"The dismissal was not based on a real cause," it ruled.

Millet, 24, said he used his lunch allowance to pay for five cheeseburgers he gave to a woman who came into the restaurant to beg for money to buy food. He said he thought the gesture would be good for McDonald's image.

"It's great. A year of hassle is finally recognised by this court, which also acknowledged my motivation and the nasty blow the manager dealt me," Millet told
Reuters after the ruling on Tuesday.

McDonald's is considering an appeal."

I thought that the story was so unbelievable that I had to verify it before passing it on.

[Devotay]

Geez. Well, finally McDonald's is appealing.

My convivium is mushrooming this Saturday. What is Connecticut up to? And did you make it to the BBQ in NYC?

Peace,
kmf

[Papa]

Dear Kurt:

I am afraid that I missed NY. I have been extremely busy lately as a lot of the work that I have been doing for years now, finally is showing its results. I am very happy with the way our business is going but my free time has been cut down dramatically.

I was interviewed last week on Connecticut's Public Radio program "Food Schnooze" where I also passed the word about Slow Food. The Food Editor of “The Day” which is Eastern Connecticut’s leading daily newspaper also interviewed me. The article is coming out in two weeks. She promised me to write a special article about Slow Food for which she knew nothing about before our meeting.

In June I am giving a class on olive oil and olive oil cooking techniques at the Mystic Cooking School. I am going to be wearing my Slow Food apron.

On the other hand, Slow Food Connecticut is organizing a day tour of local farms in Eastern Connecticut. I hope to make it to this one.

[Devotay]

Great, Papa. Glad to hear that business is going well. Wish I could gt your stuff, there's still no one out here in the hinterlands who distributes it.

As I mentioned, Slow Food Iowa is mushrooming tomorrow, led by Neil Necker,a local expert who also grows mushrooms at his Dyersville farm (yes, for those who are asking themselves, that is where the "Field of Dreams" is)

Next month we'll have a booth at the Iowa Arts Festival, in July it's a Slow Dinner with Paella ove na open fire, then the Leaders Congress in Bulinas, CA. (Will you be out there, Papa?)

In August it's the Iowa State fair, where we will again have a booth, and I'll be doing some cooking demos.

In other Slow Food news, I've begun offering discounts to Slow Food members on my cooking classes and wine tastings, and will be persuading other restaurateurs in the area to do the same sort of thing.

Also, we are very close to receiving our grant on the "Edible Schoolyard" project. So things here are really moving!

Must sign off, now. I hear my restaurant calling.

Peace,
kmf

[Pooh]

Hi KMF,

I just wanted to thank you for the Slow Food contact in Montreal.

Paul Caccia
401 rue De Rigaud - H2L 4P3 Montréal, Québec
CACCIA-PAUL@ithq.qc.ca

He is across the street from the ITHQ (Institut du tourisme et de l'hôtellerie du Québec). It's probably the best cooking school around here!

Kimmie and myself are discussing it.



[ May 18, 2001: Message edited by: pooh ]

[Devotay]

Good! And Good luck to you. can tell you'll be a fantastic addition to to fold. Perhaps you can organize a Slow Food dinner around Poutine and Smoked Meat.

To the rest of you who are following this thread, I am happy to answer anyones questions, guide any of you to any answers you might seek. Talk about it here on the BB or eMail me directly at SlowFoodIowa@Devotay.com

Peace,
kmf

[Kimmie]

Poutine and Smoked Meat!!

We'll pass, thanks!

How about wonderful Indian food?