Slow Food Nation '08

Managing Editor

• Sarah Rich

  Sarah is a writer and editor working where sustainability intersects with design, architecture, food, consumer culture and futurism. She is an editor at Dwell magazine, where she specializes in green building and manufacturing processes. Before joining Dwell, she was managing editor of Worldchanging, where she co-authored and edited the bestselling book, Worldchanging: A User’s Guide for the 21st Century (Abrams, 2006). Prior to her journalism career, Sarah was the chef at the Berkeley Art Museum’s Café Muse (once home to the Swallow Collective cafe), and worked as a television production assistant for the Food Network. She holds a degree in Cultural and Social Anthropology from Stanford.

Contributors

• Tamar Adler

  Tamar Adler cooks at Chez Panisse in Berkeley, where she arrived two years ago after leaving Farm 255, a fully integrated farm-restaurant in Athens, Georgia, where she worked as head chef. Before that, she was an editor at Harper’s Magazine. Tamar is currently a leader of Slow Food Berkeley and directs the Bay Area Meat CSA, which seeks to create functional direct-sales models for small-scale ranchers.

• Layla Azimi

  After graduating college, Layla worked as a public relations coordinator for the San Francisco Symphony and Straus Communications. At Straus, she had the opportunity to work with clients that ranged from an online organic floral retailer to organic premium denim jeans. It was at there that she developed her love for all things sustainable, local and organic. Most recently, Layla worked as an event coordinator where she planned events ranging from intimate dinner parties to large weddings. She graduated from the University of Kansas with a degree in Strategic Communications, emphasis in public relations.

• Emily Callahan

  Emily Callahan is an elementary school teacher in San Francisco whose first love is food then writing. She is very excited to be a contributor to Slow Food Nation this summer.

• Andrea King Colllier

  Andrea King Colllier is a freelance writer and a Food and Society Policy Fellow. Her work appears in The Best Food Writing of 2007.

• Paula Crossfield

  Paula Crossfield is a contributing producer at The Leonard Lopate Show on New York Public Radio. She is a writer on food policy issues for the blog A Lucid Spoonful, and is currently working on a memoir about her journey beyond corn syrup.

• Caroline Cummins

  Caroline Cummins is the managing editor of Culinate.

• Debra Eschmeyer

  Debra Eschmeyer is the Marketing & Media Manager of the National Farm to School Network and the Center for Food & Justice. She works from a fifth-generation family farm in Ohio, where she continues her passion for organic farming raising heirloom fruits,vegetables, and chickens. Prior to joining CFJ, Debra was the Program Director at the National Family Farm Coalition in Washington, DC where she focused on U.S. agricultural policy and food sovereignty initiatives among grassroots domestic and international rural advocacy and other social justice networks.

• Leigh Farris

  Leigh Farris is the Communications Consultant for Slow Food Nation. She as formerly a Communications Director at CBS News.

• Russ Fernald

  Russ Fernald is a Slow Food Nation volunteer.

• Eve Fox

  Eve Fox is an Internet consultant and writer with a legendary love of aprons and a passion for food – growing it, cooking it, and eating it. She lives in Berkeley, CA where she can often be found salivating over the fruits and veggies at one of the many local farmers’ markets. Eve is also the creator of GardenOfEatingBlog.com.

• Aaron French

  Chef / Ecologist Aaron French is passionate about the connection that food forms between humans and our environment. He has a Masters in Ecology, is the chef of The Sunny Side Cafe, and is the EcoChef columnist for ten Bay Area News Group newspapers. You can contact him at www.eco-chef.com.

• Kurt Friese

  Kurt Michael Friese is chef/owner of Devotay in Iowa City, serves on the Slow Food USA National Board of Directors, and is editor-in-chief of the magazine Edible Iowa River Valley. His forthcoming book, A Cook’s Journey: Slow Food in the Heartland, will be published in August. He lives with his wife Kim in rural Johnson County, Iowa.

• Rose Hayden-Smith

  Rose Hayden-Smith’s work focuses on providing gardening and food systems education to youth, educators, and community audiences. She chairs UC’s Garden-Based Learning Workgroup, serves on California’s Instructional School Garden Committee, and is a 2008-2009 Food and Society Policy Fellow (FASP). Her personal website can be found at groups.ucanr.org/victorygrower/.

• Gordon Jenkins

  Gordon Jenkins is the Content Coordinator for Slow Food Nation. He is organizing activities at the event for students and aspiring farmers, cooks, artisans and activists. Previously, he served as an assistant in Alice Waters’ Office and as a student farmer and writer for the Yale Sustainable Food Project.

• Carolyn Jung

  Carolyn Jung is an award-winning food and wine writer. She is the recipient of a James Beard award for feature writing about restaurants/chefs, a Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism award of excellence for diversity writing, and numerous honors from the Association of Food Journalists, and the Peninsula Press Club. For 11 years, she was the food writer/editor for the San Jose Mercury News. She is also the creator of the food and wine blog, FoodGal.com.

• Jerusha Klemperer

  Jerusha Klemperer lives in New York City where she is a writer and the Program Manager for Terra Madre at Slow Food USA. She previously served there as Assistant to the Executive Director, and is the editor of Slow Food USA’s blog.

• Mike Madison

  Mike Madison farms melons, apricots, clementines, olives, and peonies near Winters, California, and operates Yolo Press, an olive oil mill serving Yolo and Solano counties. His recent books include Walking the Flatlands and Blithe Tomato.

• Willow Rosenthal

  Willow Rosenthal is the founder of City Slicker Farms.

• Marc Rumminger

  Marc Rumminger lives in Berkeley, California. On-line, he writes the Mental Masala blog and contributes to the The Ethicurean and Eat Local Challenge. Off-line, he writes the “Eating by the Numbers” column for Edible San Francisco.

• Hank Shaw

  A former line cook and commercial fisherman, Hank Shaw is a staff writer for Edible Sacramento and has written for Gastronomica, The Art of Eating and Meatpaper. He runs the blog Hunter Angler Gardener Cook as well as the Fish & Seafood cooking site for About.com. He lives near Sacramento.

• Naomi Starkman

  Naomi brings her extensive skills as a media consultant to The New Yorker, Condé Nast Portfolio, GQ and WIRED magazines. She was previously a senior publicist at Newsweek and the Director of Communications for the American Foundation for AIDS Research (amfAR). From 1997 to 2000, she served as Deputy Executive Director of the S.F. Ethics Commission. Naomi works with various clients on food policy and advocacy and is an aspiring organic grower, having worked on several farms. She holds a double B.A. in International Relations and German from S.F. State University, and a J.D. from Santa Clara Law School.

• Mark Winne

  Mark Winne is the author of Closing the Food Gap: Resetting the Table in the Land of Plenty (Beacon Press, January 2008). For more information contact www.markwinne.com.

• Lena Zuniga

  Lena is working on building a new program within Slow Food Nation by engaging ethnic communities, non-profits and folklore organizations in celebrating and preserving agricultural traditions. She has previously worked designing and facilitating knowledge sharing processes and the use of new media for a variety of multicultural groups and non-profit organizations, especially within the social economy movement in Latin America. Lena graduated as a journalist and has a background on multimedia production and Human Rights.

• NOV. 15 AND NOV. 22: COMMUNITY DAYS

  Come to the Victory Garden on Nov. 15 and Nov. 22 for events that build community through food.