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09-04-23 p01-16.qxd 4/22/09 10:19 PM Page 1 OFFICIAL NEWSLETTER OF THE PARK SLOPE FOOD COOP Established 1973 Volume DD, Number 9 April 23, 2009 Coop Hosts Forum on Just Say Protecting New York 200,000 Pounds of City’s Watershed By Adriana Velez regulate or ban the drilling. Cheese! n March 21, the Zolas began the forum with Park Slope Food a short primer on New York Coop hosted a City’s source of water, a water- forum, “Protecting shed located in Delaware By Carey ONew York City’s Watershed.” County in the Catskills. The or Meyers The forum was conducted by water there is so clean it does those Carolyn Zolas, Watershed not require filtering. The Fof us who Coordinator of the Sierra watershed also happens to Club, Atlantic Chapter, and contain Marcellus shale, believe that cheese is its own food group, the Under Park Slope Food Coop is Yuri’s cheese leadership, top an especially welcom- sellers have ing place. The stan- become Coop dard selection has regulars something BY KEVIN RYAN PHOTO for everyone and the “cheeses 2007 after shadowing Marty ordering, cutting, packaging of the week” selection offers for a month. Under his lead- and stocking cheese in place. tastes of artisanal products ership our cheese program “Nothing was broken, so with an increasing focus on has flourished. “I had been there was nothing to fix. But domestic cheese. All of this here long enough to know the over time I’ve moved some of BY INGRID CUSSON PHOTO comes at a fraction of what ins and outs of our somewhat the bestselling cheeses of the Waterfall in Prospect Park. you’d pay elsewhere. complicated buying structure week into the regular cheese Two years ago when the and Marty knew I liked selection.” New York State Assemblyman which is believed to harbor a Coop’s longtime cheese man, Yes, the cheeses of the James F. Brennan. The focus honeycomb of unconnected Marty Stiglich, relocated to week: That top shelf of bulk of the forum was the possibil- deposits of natural gas. Major Chicago, those of us respon- cheeses, where there is always ity of natural gas drilling in multinational oil and energy sible for more than our share something new to try. “Distrib- New York City’s watershed of the $30,000 in weekly utors come by with new and pending legislation to CONTINUED ON PAGE 4 cheese sales were a little con- cheeses, and the ones that are cerned. If we’d had the equiv- great will eventually find their Next General Meeting on April 28 alent of a Department of way into the cheeses of the The General Meeting of the Park Slope Food Coop is held on the Homeland Security Advisory week mix. I’ll start with 10-20 last Tuesday of each month.* The next General Meeting will be and Alert, it would have been cheese. I apprenticed during pounds—a small order—and MORRISON BY ROD ILLUSTRATION on Tuesday, April 28, at 7:00 p.m. at the Congregation Beth Elo- code red. his final weeks and learned if the response to it is posi- him Temple House (Garfield Temple), 274 Garfield Place. Much like the DHS alerts, two key lessons: Don’t drop tive, I’ll order it again,” says The agenda is in this Gazette and available as a flyer in the this one, happily, was false as cheese on your foot and Weber, who reports that the entryway of the Coop. For more information about the GM and well. always have good music play- Portuguese sheep’s milk about Coop governance, please see the center of this issue. Marty’s successor, long- ing in food processing.” cheeses have been winning * Exceptions for November and December will be posted. time staff member Yuri Weber says he has more or Weber, took over in February less left Marty’s systems for CONTINUED ON PAGE 3 IN THIS ISSUE General Meeting Report . 2 Fri, May 1 • Film Night: Fresh 7:00 p.m. Coop Hours, Coffeehouse . 8 Sat, May 2 • BROOKLYN FOOD CONFERENCE: Puzzle, Coop Calendar, Workslot Needs Coop www.brooklynfoodconference.org Governance Information, Mission Statement. 9 Thu, May 7 • Food Class: Pai Kin Khao 7:00 p.m. GM Agenda . 10 Event Interview with Anna Lappé. 12 Fri, May 15 • The Good Coffeehouse: Letters to the Editor . 13 Highlights Sapphire and Angela Lockhart 8:00 p.m. Community Calendar . 14 Look for additional information about these and other events in this issue. Landfills and Biodegradation . 14 Classified Ads . 15 09-04-23 p01-16.qxd 4/22/09 10:19 PM Page 2 2 April 23, 2009 Park Slope Food Coop, Brooklyn, NY GENERAL MEETING REPORT ye Growing Broccoli, Sustainable Food and New Coops u fo All Discussed at the March GM I w By Hayley Gorenberg b ab b ya b cu C u re p roccoli crises, a huge meeting’s Open Forum with a know it’s a big problem, and ing to “expand community tr local food conference, diatribe about the vanishing we’re working on it,” he said, awareness on the policies ge Bre-electing members of availability of Future Time Off noting that the Coop is con- and issues impacting the way the disciplinary committee, Program (FTOP) workslots. sidering adding slots for our food is grown, distributed D and the vagaries of our debit Anticipating the run on too duties such as parking mem- and eaten. Topics will explore card system were all jammed few slots likely to occur this bers’ bicycles. the politics behind farming M into the March 31, 2009 Gen- summer, when many FTOP- and the food supply, as well sy eral Meeting. pers choose to work, she Salmonella Scare as the effect of corporate and o An overflow crowd of near- warned, “It’s going to be crazy. Holtz also detailed the government policies on labor, tr ly 200 attended the meeting It’s going to be really crazy!” Coop’s response to recent nutrition, production, and th to learn about, discuss, ques- She described FTOP workers news that pistachios were con- programs such as school w tion, and sometimes vote on hovering like vultures, wait- taminated with salmonella. lunches. o these issues. All chairs were ing for FTOP sign-up sheets “Our pistachios are not “It also seeks to increase se filled, and members sprawled to be posted in the office: “If sourced from the company individual and family partici- w on gymnastics mats around you’re not there that second, that has the problem,” said pation in our communities by b the periphery of the ballroom they’re gone!” Holtz. “All the bulk pistachios proposing strategies and tac- re at Beth Elohim, some munch- General Coordinator Joe that we have…they’re all fine. tics for a local response to “T ing fruit and chips provided Holtz acknowledged the And then we started thinking, the important issues sur- W as snacks from the Coop. Coop has more people on ‘What else do we carry?’” The rounding the food we eat. A BY LISA COHEN PHOTOS to FTOP than there are slots Coop called Cedars, the com- Legislative Food Agenda will offering nuggets like his asser- FTOP Frenzy available: “I don’t have imme- pany that produces baklava be proposed to help position tion that the Coop sold $36 B A member kicked off the diate relief to tell you about. I sold from the Coop’s refriger- Brooklyn as a stage for million of food last year that ator case. The company change in the global food would have sold for $48 mil- Z promptly responded that its movement and to advocate lion at a typical, very large PARK SLOPE FOOD COOP pistachios were imported, not for food democracy.” food coop: “The difference of the Californian nuts that were The conference will kick off $12 million is the savings off Product Return Policy the focus of the problem. with a parade of massive pup- the top that you get from our J Holtz noted that the Coop pets saying something wild is method of operation,” he said. The Coop does not “exchange” items. You must return item and repurchase CO typically receives 10 to 15 happening in Park Slope, said Other financial highlights: what you need. Returns of eligible items will be handled at the Second emails or other notices daily Nancy Romer, the member The Coop’s pension fund ra Floor Service Desk within 30 days of purchase only when accompanied by • the PAID IN FULL receipt. about recalls of some kind. who reported on the upcom- is “down a lot” and will ing conference. The children’s require about $350,000 to o Please use the following guide to determine if an item is eligible for return: Food Conference activities at PS 321 include bring it up to its target range. in Produce May not be returned with the exception of Committee updates myriad learning activities, The auditor will clarify the go (fresh fruits & vegetables) coconuts, pineapples and watermelon. Even if included news about the though Romer conceded there amount of the charge and the If the claim is that the item is spoiled or that it huge Brooklyn Food Confer- had been one distinctive cut- tax consequences at the P was purchased by mistake, produce cannot be ence coming up on Saturday, back: “The cow was canceled. Annual Meeting in June, in returned except for the three items listed above. May 2, in Park Slope’s PS 321 We were told we can’t bring Eakin said.