Slow Food Emory strives to reconnect students to the soil, water, organisms, cultures, and traditions salient to the production of food and establish sustainable communal interactions. Slow Food Emory seeks to invigorate genuine interest in food policy and production, encourage student involvement with the local sustainable food community, and encourage an appreciation for the importance of food in our daily lives.

Slow Food Emory is a local campus chapter of the international Slow Food Movement.  Our main goal is to advocate “Good, Clean, and Fair” food in a way that is adaptable and accessible to Emory students.

How to get involved:
We have general body meetings every other Tuesday at 7:00pm in Few Demo Kitchen.  We spread awareness of the Slow Food movement through educational outreach, pairing up with Slow Food Atlanta to do events/fundraisers, volunteering at farms and festivals dedicated to local and organic food, and cooking!

What we are trying to achieve:
Wendell Berry once said that “eating is an agricultural act.”  We encourage people to be thoughtful about their food, and realize that what you put into your mouth affects way more than just yourself.  We hope that giving people the knowledge to be able to choose between organic and conventional food, the farmers market and the supermarket, fair trade versus standard, pesticide versus natural, etc. will allow them to “vote with their fork” on what values are important to them.  Slow Food is not about being a purist. It’s just about doing what you can.

Contacts:
President: Jenny Jia
Vice President: Ashley Morris
Communications Representative: Rachel Levine
Secretary: Ehren Dancy
Treasurer: Piali Samanta

Emory Environmental Alliance

10/14- “Deconstructing Supper” showing (Anthro. 250)

Emory Environmental Alliance

10/21 – Wonderful Wednesday: make your own Thai basil roll with basil from the Sustainable Garden!

Slow Food Emory

10/21 – Whole Foods 5% Day: 5% of Everything bought at Whole Foods will be donated to the Georgia Farms Flood Relief Fund.

Slow Food Emory

10/24 – 350 Day. 350 ppm is what scientists say is the safe upper limit for carbon dioxide in the atmosphere.

Nifty General Environmentalism

10/24- Light bulb retrofit (with compact fluorescent bulbs) on main or Clairmont campus on at 6pm (time may change).

Emory Environmental Alliance

10/24 – Our goal is to get 350 people to pledge to eat locally and/or vegetarian for one day to decrease our “food miles” and subsequently fossil fuel emission.

Slow Food Emory

10/28- “Black Gold” showing (Anthro. 250)

Emory Environmental Alliance

11/3 – General Body Meeting: Cooking night –> canning!  Local farmer Linton Hopkins is coming to teach us how to can our favorite summer fruits and veggies to preserve them for the winter.

Slow Food Emory

11/7 or 11/8 – Overnight at Will Harris’s White Oak Pasture Farm. (TENTATIVE).  We’ll lend a hand on the farm in the day, cook a delicious meal at night and camp out on the farm.

Slow Food Emory

11/11- “Super Size Me” showing (Anthro. 250)

Emory Environmental Alliance

Please email cekelem@emory.edu if you would like to be added to the tour list.

Meetings are at 6pm on Thursdays in Cox Computer Lab, Classroom A

Food Film Series with Anthropology 250 (Fast Food Slow Food). The movies are all on Wednesdays at 6pm in White hall (need to find out the room number). These are the dates and film titles:

• 9/30- Mondo Vino
• 10/14- Deconstructing Supper
• 10/28-Black Gold
• 11/11-Super Size Me

Contacts:

Chloe Ekelem – Co-president, cekelem@emory.edu

Andrew Tate – Co-president, atate2@emory.edu

Cassandra Webster – Co-Vice President

Jenna Shweizter – Co-Vice President, jshweit@emory.edu

Matther Qiao – Treasurer, mqiao@emory.edu

Jack Etheredge – Webmaster, jethere@emory.edu

Generation Response

Emory Environmental Alliance

Volunteer Emory

Roosevelt Institution

Slow Food

Greeks Go Green

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