Evaluating Websites

Review Websites

Currency: How recently was the website updated? Are the links on the webpage active?
Relevance: Does the information relate to your topic?
Authority: What does the URL reveal about the author or source?
Accuracy: Are there spelling issues or typos?
Purpose: Are the intentions or purpose clear? It is unbiased with impartial information?

Slow Food USA
Slow Food USA is part of the global Slow Food network of over 100,000 members in more than 150 countries. Through a vast volunteer network of local chapters, youth and food communities, we link the pleasures of the table with a commitment to protect the community, culture, knowledge and environment that make this pleasure possible.
Our mission as an international grassroots membership organization is good, clean and fair food for all.

Edible Communities
Edible Communities offers 59 regional publications emphasizing local foods and farms in distinct culinary regions throughout the United States, Canada, and Europe.

Epicurious: Seasonal Cooking
Slow and Local food is largely about eating what is in season. Check out these recipes for ideas on how to use seasonal produce.

UNISG - University of Gastronomic Sciences
The University of Gastronomic Sciences, founded in 2004 by the international non-profit association Slow Food in cooperation with the Italian regions of Piedmont and Emilia-Romagna, is a ministerially recognized, private non-profit institution.

Its goal is to create an international research and education center for those working on renewing farming methods, protecting biodiversity, and building an organic relationship between gastronomy and agricultural science.

DOP Foods of Italy
An explanation of what the DOP label means, and examples of Italian products carrying this label.

Slow Food International
The Slow Food movement, started in Europe, is characterized by local rootedness and decentralization of production. The emphasis is on traditional artesanal ways of food production throughout the world.
Slow Food Multimedia
Audio, video and text files to listen to, watch and download
Key Documents
LInks to key documents, almanacs, companion guides

Slow Food Foundation for Biodiversity
Part of Slow Food International, the Foundation operates projects to defend local food traditions, protect local biodiversity and promote small-scale quality products, especially in the southern hemisphere. They also have an Ark of Taste with lists of endangered foods throughout the world, but mainly in Europe.

Slow Food Italia
Go to the country where the slow movement started. The site is in Italian but what better time to learn the Italian language?

Osterie d'Italia - The Best Osterias in Italy, Region by Region, 2016
Each year, Slow Food releases a guide to the best Osterias (casual restaurants) in Italy that embody the principles of Good, Clean, and Fair food for all. This link (in Italian) lists the chosen restaurants of Italy for 2016, region by region.