The aim of the international Slow Food movement is to protect the pleasures of the table from the modern homogenization of fast food and fast life. Through a variety of initiatives Slow Food promotes gastronomic culture, taste education, conserves agricultural biodiversity and protects traditional foods at risk of extinction. The movement began in 1986 with a protest of the first opening of McDonalds on the Spanish Stairs in Rome. Today it is 80,000 members strong representing over 100 countries.
Slow Food members are organized into local chapters or “convivia” and work at the grassroots level to carry out the Slow Food mission at the local, national and international level. Slow Food USA oversees the activities of over 140 convivia in North America.
*Join the Slow Food Movement
You can partake in the Slow Food mission every time you enjoy these pleasures:
- Trace your food sources
- Visit a farmers’ market
- Join a CSA
- Share a meal with friends and family
- Visit a farm in your area
- Plant seeds or harvest greens for a meal with your children
- Support restaurants who prepare traditional foods
- Start a kitchen garden
- Cook a traditional family recipe
- Learn your local food history
- Buy local, seasonal foods
Join the Conversation!Check out our blog: www.tetonslowfood.wordpress.comFull Circle Education, Sustainable Living Workshops, Vertical
Harvest, The People’s Market, Sustainable Film Festivals, A Locavore’s
Night Out and many more programs and initiatives are thanks to your
generous donations!
Everything you donate
here goes to programs here in the Tetons. Every penny counts. To join Slow Food USA and support the
national and international programs, visit Slow Food USA here.
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