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Amelia Lang
Amelia has traveled around the world backpacking, photographing, drawing, and attempting to learn various languages. After a long hiatus in Portland, Oregon, New Zealand, Spain, and Africa, she…
Amelia has traveled around the world backpacking, photographing, drawing, and attempting to learn various languages. After a long hiatus in Portland, Oregon, New Zealand, Spain, and Africa, she recently returned to her roots in San Francisco. She couldn’t find a city she liked more. Barcelona came close, Berlin and Tokyo were up there too, but as corny as it may sound, she left her heart in San Francisco. Amelia balances her love for both the rural coastline just north of the Golden Gate Bridge and the stimulation of city life. She graduated from University where she studied history and fine art. She comes from a family of artists and can’t help but indulge her own creative impulses. She looks forward to graduate school in design and art history, hopefully somewhere abroad. Although she knows she will always succumb to her gypsy spirit, for now she is happy nesting in San Francisco.
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Part of the draw to living in San Francisco is the city's unrelenting commitment to dialogue. Here, "hot topics" are at home and there are always supporters, protestors, scholars and revolutionaries ready and waiting to dissect current debates in open and enthusiastic forms.
The Slow Food movement is a popular topic of conversation as authors like Michael Pollen bring to our attention uniquely American habits of eating. In books like Omnivore’s Dilemma and In Defense of Food, we are asked to reevaluate our relationships to plants and animals. These topics will grow literal roots in the coming weeks as San Francisco is taken over by Slow Food Nation. Slow Food Nation 2008 invites anyone and everyone to come to the table from August 29th- September 1st. Witness the largest celebration of food in America. This event will have nothing to do with McDonald’s, Burritos or a American Hotdogs. But rather, Slow Food Nation is a historically ground breaking celebration where education and activism focus on food.
There will be taste pavilions where you can sample simply the best of the best in sustainable and organic food. There will be a marketplace, perfect for souvenirs, organizers will also screen films, and provide picnics, lead hikes, cooking classes, show photography exhibitions, host poetry performers, dancing and more tasting. Bring a hungry stomach, an interested mind and get ready to see San Francisco work her festival magic.