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Slow food movement

Tasting food, preparing food, smelling food, stimulating gastric juices and feeding the ones you love around the dinner table is a basic human instinct.  In todays fast paced world these simple joys are often overlooked.  Using the food we eat as medicine is the ideal way to nourish our bodies and become in tune with the seasons in turn increasing a wholesome sense of wellbeing and connectedness. 

Slow Food is a non-profit organization founded in 1989 to counteract fast food and fast life.

Slow Food brings brings together pleasure and responsibility to reduce the disappearance of local food traditions and people’s dwindling interest in the food they eat, where it comes from, how it tastes and how our food choices affect the rest of the world. Slow food members believe that the food we eat should taste good; that it should be produced in a clean way that does not harm the environment, animal welfare or our health; and that food producers should receive fair compensation for their work.

Good things about the slow food movement....

• Slow food works to defend biodiversity in our food supply with efforts to save traditional grains, vegetables, fruits, animal breeds and food products that are disappearing due to the prevalence of convenience foods and industrial agribusiness. The organisations set up to achieve this are "Arl of Taste", "Presidia", "Terra Madre" and "Slow food movement for biodiversity".
• Taste education aims to reawaken the senses to the joys of eating and understanding the importance of caring where their food comes from, who makes it and how it's made. Programs introduce local foods and producers to both members and non-members and encourage initiatives such as school gardens and Taste workshops which offer guided tastings with food experts.
• Slow food created the University of Gastronomic science to offer a multidisciplinary academic program in the science and culture of food.
• Slow food organise fairs, markets and events all over the world to showcase products of excellent gastronomic quality and introduce the producers.

For more information about the slow food movement and upcoming events please follow this link to their website -http://www.slowfood.com/welcome_eng.lasso