Another wonderful Slow Food Bloomington event coming up Sunday, August 14, from 4-7.

(You can click on the poster to read it more clearly.  Details follow below) Slow Food Bloomington is proud to be part of the Bloomington Eats Green Weekend — three events celebrating local sustainable eating in January. First, two speakers: On Friday, January 22, noted ethnobotanist (and native Hoosier!) Gary Nabhan, is speaking on "Renewing…

The Chefs Dinner is a couple of weeks past now, fabulous as always. We’ve been buzzing with guests and good food here and I am fighting a deadline on our textbook revisions (should be done in a month, except for the copyediting, etc.) but I do intend to get back to blogging – I miss…

The Slow Food Bloomington Chefs Dinner is coming up this Sunday at 5:30 at the Bloomington Convention Center. Here’s the menu (subject to final tweaks and improvements.) The wine pairings are still in the works. Tickets are available for $100 per person at Bloomingfoods East and West, or email me if you are out of…

Well this is kind of embarrassing, but here I am. Politics still driving me crazy, but one must eat, after all. Food. Of course I have been eating all through this ordeal (though there have been a few moments when I actually lost my appetite.) Some highlights really stand out. A visit from Dave and…

Sorry for my blogging silence of late – I’ve been broadsided by my day job. Besides writing about food, what I do is teach political science and write about American politics. With primaries and caucuses every other day (or what feels like every other day), this is our silly season. And I may as well…

So it’s not a gorgeous picture, it tasted gorgeous and that’s what counts. Here’s the thing. Even during my meat eating years I wasn’t all that big a fan of chicken. It just tasted like, well, chicken. A little dry, boring, nothing to get worked up about unless you coated it with fry, which we…

I haven’t been such a hot blogger this year – what with one thing and another there were some long dry spots between posts on my end. I haven’t been able to read blogs as regularly as I’d like, either. Makes me feel especially guilty when I consider what I have gained from you all…

Ah, Life in the slow lane, at last. School’s out, we are in Florida,  took a long walk on the beach this afternoon with the dogs (who have come down here with us for the first time), and all’s right with my world. I meant to make a long detailed post about the Lebanese feast…

We meant to go to Florida for Thanksgiving this year but stuff came up. Had to go to Savannah on business last weekend and then some paperwork needed to be dealt with here and then… I don’t know, four days in a car with two dogs to spend three days in Apalachicola didn’t seem like…

A couple of weeks ago several student members of Slow Food Bloomington got together to work on chartering an IU chapter of Slow Food on Campus. As the faculty sponsor, I got to tag along, which was a good thing because they met over a terrific potluck supper at one of the student’s apartments.  Among…