The Slow Food movement began in the 1980s when a group of Italians protested the opening of a McDonald’s near the Spanish Steps. Today, the official Slow Food organization boasts more than 100,000 members in 132 countries. The Slow Food mantra is “good, clean and fair.” Proponents believe food should taste good, production should minimize [...]
Here are a few of the more substantive parts of my media diet this week: Joy of Less by Pico Iyer (NYTimes.com “Happy Days” blog) Iyer says that “the crazily accelerating roller-coaster of the 24/7 news cycle has propelled people up and down and down and up and then left them pretty much where they [...]
No. But apparently I do. My name is Mark Berkey-Gerard. I am a college journalism teacher. I teach online and multimedia journalism courses at Rowan University in Southern New Jersey. I spend a lot of my day teaching students how to do “techie” things. But my real passion – and my real challenge – is [...]
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