Updates

Hey Everyone!

Last night's meeting involved girls, carrot cake, and a live cow butchering. Sort of.

Here's the lowdown on our upcoming panel:

Slow Food BU presents
The Foodie's Dilemma: How Boston's Cheapskates Can Eat Sustainably

Thursday, February 28th 7:30 pm
Kenmore Classroom Building (565 Commonwealth Avenue), Room 101

The word is out: industrially-produced food just isn't that good for your body, the environment, and your conscience. But it's not easy to eat all that delicious, local, sustainably-produced food while trying balance your meager student budget and braving a cold winter in the city. So why bother? These foodie-experts will discuss the merits and difficulties of eating ethically:

• Jean-Claude Bourrut, Coordinator, Serving Ourselves Farm
• Chef Chris Douglass, Executive Chef and Owner, Icarus and Ashmont Grill
• Corby Kummer, Senior Editor of The Atlantic Monthly and Advisory Board member of Slow Food USA
  
• Jamey Lionette, Lionette's Market, Co-author of Manifestos on the Future of Food and Seed
• Dr. A. Starr, Professor of Sociology at Chapman University (check out her Political Economy of Food course)

The event is free for BU students, faculty, and staff; it is also open to the public, with a suggested donation of $5 (proceeds go to Slow Food BU).

Partially funded by your Undergraduate Student Fee!

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More meeting round-up:

• Myles Dining Hall is going trayless on Tuesday Feb 12th!! SFBU will be there, tabling and distributing information.
  
• Get involved! We need volunteers for a number of things, including:
• Donating baked goods to the ESO/SFBU Valentine's Day Bake Sale at the GSU on Feb 14th
  
• Helping out at the SFBU tables at Myles on Feb 12th (see above) and at the GSU on Feb 14th
• Making posters about sustainable foods to hang up in Myles
• Spreadin the word about the Feb 28th panel
  
• Our own Jessica Volz has volunteered to compile a Slow Food BU Cookbook. Submit your recipes to slowfood@bu.edu, or bring them to an upcoming meeting.
• A Slow Food Night will be happening sometime in April at Myles.
  
• Our local foods tasting is postponed until after Spring Break.
• Lionnette's is doing a cow break-down on Feb. 20th. Find out what real beef looks like in this month's newsletter.
  

Other news:

• Happy Chinese New Year! 2008 is the year of the rat. It's also the year of the potato, says the UN. You decide which is tastier.
• "Buying organic meat is meating vegans halfway"
• There's still hope for the Farm Bill!
• Yum, free food :)
  

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Next meeting/potluck: Tuesday February 26th, 7:30 pm, Room 109 at 808 Commonwealth Ave (Fuller Building).