Tag Archives: Slow Food

Rethinking the obesity paradigm (part 1)

Posted on June 30, 2013 by Michelle Paratore

This is the first part of a post I’ve been meaning to write for many months now, ever since the second annual Childhood Obesity Bay Area (COBA) Conference, held in February (I know, an embarrassingly long time ago – blame … Continue reading →

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Little City Kitchen Co: laying the foundation for a life of healthy eating

Posted on October 5, 2011 by Michelle Paratore

Filled with excitement from Dr. Alan Greene’s keynote speech at last weekend’s Childhood Obesity Bay Area Conference about feeding babies vegetables and whole grains (see last week’s post), I was thrilled to meet Jill Epner: healthy baby food entrepreneur. Jill … Continue reading →

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Childhood Obesity Bay Area: how to reverse the trajectory

Posted on September 30, 2011 by Michelle Paratore

Last Saturday I had the pleasure of volunteering at Slow Food San Francisco’s first annual Childhood Obesity Bay Area Conference at the Commonwealth Club. The conference featured two truly illuminating keynote speeches from Dr. Alan Greene and Dr. David Kessler. … Continue reading →

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Edible Education 101: Carlo Petrini on The Global Food Movement

Posted on September 1, 2011 by Michelle Paratore

Carlo Petrini, founder and president of the international Slow Food movement, kicked off the much-anticipated Edible Education 101 lecture series at UC Berkeley this Tuesday. Given all the hype around the series (the ~300 free public tickets for this lecture … Continue reading →

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