RE: Slow Food

**Timberland RC&D t*@iserv.net**

Some of the folks associated with the Greater Grand Rapids Food Systems 
Council are trying to get together a local slow food "convivium". I 
understand from them that there are a fair number of application 
requirements including familiarity with what watershed one is in, etc. I 
applaud this! I see very few social-change initiatives that are more 
important than the emphasis on eating local food, sharing the experience 
with friends, and knowing where and by whom it was grown. I totally agree 
with Amanda, the movement seems to have a lot in common with community 
gardening.

As far as elitism, obviously there's a certain need for leisure time to 
prepare food versus grabbing it at Mickey D's, but that should not render 
it inaccessible to most people. (In fact I often wonder how low-income 
people without cars have access to fast food with such regularity; I guess 
that indicates more of that astute market/location analysis Eric Schlosser 
refers to.) Some of those who attended the first Grand Rapids Slow Food 
potluck were very low income (although of course that's by U.S./Canada 
standards), and it seems that part of the struggle is to be sure healthy 
whole foods are within reach of everyone.

Cynthia Price

-----Original Message-----
From:	Amanda Maria Edmonds [SMTP:aedmonds@umich.edu]
Sent:	Monday, November 04, 2002 8:49 PM
To:	community_garden@mallorn.com
Subject:	[cg] Slow Food

I just learned of this emerging movement, "Slow Food"-- seems pretty
interesting, and very much in line with the philosophies I think many of
us as community gardeners share of food as an important cultural,
community-building, and "growing" experience.  The web site in the US is
www.slowfoodusa.org.

Anyone out there already involved with this movement?  I'd be interested
in knowing more about how it's playing out in local communities...

Amanda

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Amanda Maria Edmonds

			"We must be the change we wish to see in the world."
   "To forget to dig the earth and to tend the soil is to forget
ourselves."
                                               			 		      - Mahatma Ghandi

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