Five ways the Slow Food movement is good for your health Bringing down the speed and eating more mindfully helps us enjoy our food, but the Slow Food movement can also offer health benefits by Janet Ho Updated Nov 1, 2012 Picture this: You’re dining Al fresco with friends and family in a quaint Italian villa and you take a moment to soak in the view. The leaves on the Cypress trees rustle gently from the warm breeze coming from the south and its clear blue skies. The white table linen is covered with a colourful array of foods — a feast of fresh-baked cheddar bread , roasted olives , garlic lemon linguine with asparagus and shrimp , prosciutto and arugula pizza , Mediterranean tomato and bean salad , and bottles of almost-empty red and white vino. Western Europeans are famous for taking long, drawn-out meals, such as this. Perhaps they’ve learned that the only way to truly appreciate life (and good food) is by slowing down. We can learn a lot from that philo
Slow Food Nations July 14 9:00 am - July 16 10:00 pm Union Station & Larimer Square Denver, CO Admission: Free Slow Food Nations is a festival to taste and explore a world of good, clean and fair food for all. Inspired by Slow Food International’s biennial Terra Madre gathering in Turin, Italy, Slow Food Nations will combine the energy of a street food festival, rigor of an academic conference, and inspiration of a cultural exchange. Entrance to the festival is free and includes a taste marketplace with 100 Slow Food producers, an outdoor culinary stage, gardening and cooking activities for kids and families, intimate talks, and many more events. Ticketed events include dozens of interactive workshops, fun block parties, regional food and farm tours, roundtable discussions, and one-of-a-kind dinners throughout the weekend. Slow Food Nations will reimagine the food festival and inspire individuals and communities to change the world through food that is good, cl