Brooklyn's Park Slope Food Coop, a longstanding food cooperative,
(72) The Park Slope Food Coop opened in 1973 and now has
(I also may have discussed this project during my last food-processing shift at the
Park Slope Food Coop.)
With battle lines long drawn, as many as 3000 members of the (16,000-member)
Park Slope Food Coop will gather in a Brooklyn school to vote on whether to hold a Coop-wide referendum on whether to cease selling the (very few) products made in Israel or the West Bank.
In addition to Gourmet Garage, scheduled participants in the focus group are Dean & DeLuca, Balducci's, Garden of Eden, The Food Emporium, Blue Apron Foods, the
Park Slope Food Coop, and Commodities.
The Park Slope Food Coop was founded in 1973 at the same moment as many alternative art spaces.
BY MEMBERS OF THE PARK SLOPE FOOD COOP, FOOD PROCESSING COMMITTEE, C WEEK MONDAY AFTERNOON SQUAD
This Sunday afternoon, at the Old Reform Church two blocks away from the
Park Slope Food Coop, a group opposing a boycott of Israeli goods is holding a panel that will include Michael Walzer, the longtime editor of Dissent and a board member of the left-wing group Americans for Peace Now.
There was only minimal, informal discussion at last night's monthly
Park Slope Food Coop members' meeting of the issue that has put the 40-year-old institution in the news lately.
The awards ceremony recognized a slew of Brooklyn local food leaders: Bob Lewis, co-founder of the Greenmarket; Annie Hauck-Lawson, President of the Association for the Study of Food and Society; her brother Robert Hauck, a fisherman; Anas Moustapha, owner of Oriental Pastry and Grocery; co-founder of the
Park Slope Food Coop Joe Holtz; the Reverends Robert and DeVanie Jackson, who founded the Brooklyn Rescue Mission and the Bed-Stuy Farm; and Shineka Williams, a young farmer at bk farmyards.
Pity the
Park Slope Food Coop. Drubbed almost annually by some crabby reporter in the New York Times, satirized by author Amy Sohn in her last novel, Prospect Park West, the 38-year-old cooperative grocery store in the heart of gentrified Brooklyn suffers from an image problem.
Official Statement on
Park Slope Food Coop, Israel and the BDS Discussion [Water Over Rocks]