Slow Food Nation will take place Labor Day weekend in San Francisco. Here's a another chance to answer the question of whether sustainable, localized, in-season eating is a luxury, available only to the froo-frooiest among us. It's interesting. The slow food movement in Europe, despite being seen as a high-brow food dilettantism and a shallow cultural choice, is still quite popular. But it's been slow to take root in the U.S., even though it has the awesomest of snail logos.

How do we get over that hurdle stateside? It seems like it might require those of us who believe in slow food principles to articulate some clearer thinking about the politics of said food: who deserves to eat what, when, why, and how. Seems to me one answer is to infiltrate American culture through school cafeterias -- brainwash 'em when they're young and can't put up a fight!