Slow Food

Online grocery shopping conquered our daily social life and habits. How can you get ahead of it by supporting local production? — For a while, we have been meeting our kitchen needs via both physically and online. With the increase in technology use, each day we have witnessed an opening of dark stores for grocery and nowadays ghost kitchens for food delivery. Getir, Dija, Goxo, Bed, Bath&Beyond, Tesco and many more. In…

“The food on your plate is not just a substance, it is not a material, it is not a commodity, it is life.” — Sadhguru Inflammation is the body’s natural immune response to stress and injury. In short bursts it’s beneficial, but when it overstays its welcome, it starts to…

After reading We Are What We Eat: A Slow Food Manifesto, I was hungry for more Alice Waters. In a culture that monetizes time, slowing down is a revolution. In a culture that reduces food down to nutrients, as Michael Pollan would say, eating real food is a revolution. I…

“Hair is beauty. Hair is emotion. Hair is our heritage. Hair tells us who we are, where we’ve been and where we are going. Hair is Power. You can’t imagine what it’s like to lose it. But I refused to give up the fight. My hair grew back and so…

One evening as I was walking home in Barcelona, strolling past all of the local eateries and tapas joints, I was stopped in my tracks and I had to shake my head in utter disgust. A Burger King was there, despoiling the landscape. “How horrible!”, I thought. “America at its…

Slow living (sloh liv-ing: Proto-Germanic *slæwaz) 1. a lifestyle which encourages an intentional approach to all aspects of everyday life Back in 1986 a tiny company called McDonalds decided to open a restaurant in the heart of Italy. The location they chose was the Piazza di Spagna at the foot…

wonder | wander | world love to collect valuable resources and information — especially innovative projects that promote small and local produce, products and production. We are grateful and gratified to have stumbled upon John Sherwin Felix. This young man is a knowledgeable fountain of information on native food heritage and agrobiodiversity. You can find him at Lokalpedia — a visual archive of endangered, artisanal, heirloom, and small batch Philippine ingredients and food items.