slow food

Posted by Ed Yowell, FSNYC Governing Board Member, Slow Food NY/NJ Regional Governor, and Slow Food NYC Leadership Committee Member

Posted by Kerry Trueman, Eating Liberally

As overwhelming undertakings go, Slow Food Nation's inaugural event
was an awesome achievement. Slow Food Nation's goal, ultimately, according to
executive director Anya Fernald, is "to create a food system for
all Americans that is healthy, socially just, affordable, and delicious."

That's an awfully ambitious agenda, and this extraordinary event definitely
encountered a few speed bumps in its drive to downshift our fast food nation.
The folks who organized Slow Food Nation envisaged it as a "truly inclusive"
series of forums, tastings, exhibits, screenings, and so on, but there was a
notable lack of diversity in the crowds who turned out to the various events,
and the price of entrée to some of the forums and food tastings no doubt put
them out of reach for many.

Posted by Sara Grady
"Come to the Table," the motto of Slow Food Nation this past weekend in San Francisco, summed the gathering's goal of inspiring and catalyzing “a new critical awareness of food culture." It certainly was inspirational to see so many people connecting to a burgeoning social movement around food issues. Yet it appeared that most of us in attendance were already at the proverbial table.