Posted on Apr 4, 2014 •
Chefs for The Marcellus’ Jeffrey Lizotte, executive chef of The Restaurant ON20, is helping to establish CT Chefs for a Ban on Fracking Waste and needs all of us to reach out to our CT colleagues to support the effort. He writes: Here in CT, our communities are threatened by fracking waste that will be...
Posted on Jan 30, 2014 •
Chefs for the Marcellus has followed campaign members Mary Cleaver, Michael Anthony, Bill Telepan, Jimmy Carbone, and several more in signing on to the NYS GMO Labeling Campaign. Please join us now in the fight to pass legislation (A.3525/S.3835) that would require the labeling of genetically engineered seed, seed stock and food sold retail in...
Posted on Dec 13, 2013 •
Chef Heather Carlucci, sat down with Joanne Camas of Epicurious.com to talk about our campaign and why it continues to be so important to her. Heather, mother of a young child, discusses why fracking is dangerous to water, farming, the local economy, and the environment we leave for next generations. “Restaurants and hotels can’t function...
Posted on Dec 11, 2013 •
Residents in the New York towns of Middlefield and Dryden were among the first to vote to keep their municipalities free of heavy industry, an effort to zone out fracking. These towns were promptly sued by drilling companies. “New York State has enshrined in its Constitution the principle of ‘home rule’ — the right of...
Posted on Nov 25, 2013 •
Residents in the New York towns of Middlefield and Dryden were among the first to vote to keep their municipalities free of heavy industry, an effort to zone out fracking. These towns were promptly sued by drilling companies. “New York State has enshrined in its Constitution the principle of ‘home rule’ — the right of...
Posted on Oct 17, 2013 •
Governor Cuomo will be hosting a brunch Saturday, October 19th to promote the bounty of New York State farms at the NYC Wine & Food Festival. We want to make sure he and everyone attending the festival knows that fracking would put our food, beer and wine at risk. Come to peacefully rally at NYC’s...
Posted on Oct 11, 2013 •
Food, Fracking, and You: How extreme energy projects affect our food, our local businesses, and our communities Join the Brooklyn Food Coalition Policy Committee and their partners Food & Water Watch, Chefs for the Marcellus, and Businesses Against Fracking New York on Tuesday, October 15 for an educational panel discussion on fracking and extreme energy...
Posted on Sep 28, 2013 •
Chefs for the Marcellus will be at the International Chefs Conference, September 29-October 1 at Pier 57 on the Hudson River. We’ll entice visitors and exhibitors to our booth to sign our letter to Governor Cuomo with actual tastes of the Marcellus Region thanks to Catskills Provisions, Eve’s Cidery and Brooklyn Winery. We will also...
Posted on Sep 25, 2013 •
Congratulations to our west coast colleagues who today launched the Chef’s Petition in Support of a Fracking Moratorium in California! We are thrilled that Chefs for the Marcellus has played a role in inspiring their team that includes Anna Ghosh at Food and Water Watch, Alice Waters, Chez Panisse, and Naomi Starkman. We urge everyone...