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Jerusha Klemperer on Slow Food USA

Series: Just Business
From: Carnegie Council
Length: 00:28:44

Jerusha Klemperer, associate director of programs at Slow Food USA, explains the differences between slow and fast food and discusses food equity--how to make slow food more affordable and more widely available. Read the full description.

Justbusiness_programhd_small Just Business is a series of audio interviews that examines some of the tangled pathways that companies and civil society face. Host Julia Taylor Kennedy sits down with thought leaders across a variety of sectors to discuss the intersection between business and society.

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Just Business is a series of audio interviews that examines some of the tangled pathways that companies and civil society face. Host Julia Taylor Kennedy sits down with thought leaders across a variety of sectors to discuss the intersection between business and society.

Transcript

JULIA TAYLOR KENNEDY: Welcome to Just Business, a series of interviews about global business practices. I'm Julia Taylor Kennedy, and today we're talking about worldwide access to food and the explosion of information and activism surrounding food and its supply chain.

I'm here at the Slow Food USA headquarters. We're in a converted warehouse, so if you hear some rumbles and noise, that's why. It's really a great grassroots office space here.

I'm here with the organization's associate director of programs and a prolific blogger, both personally and professionally, Jerusha Klemperer.

Jerusha, thanks so much for joining me on Just Business.

JERUSHA KLEMPERER: My pleasure.

JULIA TAYLOR KENNEDY: Before we start, let me just say that it's quite fitting that your offices are here in Brooklyn, because the shops, the Brooklyn Flea Market, everything, is full of a hyper-local, hyper-slow foc...
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Additional Credits

Deborah Carroll- Producer
William Vocke- Writer
Joel Rosenthal – Voice Talent
Julia Kennedy- Content Editor, Producer/Host of Just Business
Robert Smithline- Editor
Terence Hurley- Editor
Ina Pira- Production Assistant

Related Website

www.carnegiecouncil.org