Slow Food Gourmet

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 d...

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...

History A Delicious Revolution: How Grandma’s Pasta Changed the World It was 1986 and a McDonald’s franchise was coming to Rome, adjacent to the Spanish Steps in Piazza di Spagna. Italian journalist Carlo Petrini was outraged. What would fast food do to the food culture of Rome? Would it threaten the local trattorias and osterias, the local dining establishments of the working class? Petrini rallied his friends and community to take a stand against this global industrialization of food, and the social and culinary costs of homogenized eating. Instead of picketing with signs, he armed the protestors with bowls of penne. Defiantly they declared, “We don’t want fast food… we want slow food!” And the idea of Slow Food was born. Soon after, Petrini realized that in order to keep our alternative food choices alive, it was crucial for an “eco-gastronomic” movement to exist – one that was concerned with environmental sustainability (eco), and the study of culture and food ...

Our history Slow Food: The History of an Idea Slow Food was started by Carlo Petrini and a group of activists in the 1980s with the initial aim to defend regional traditions, good food, gastronomic pleasure and a slow pace of life. In over two decades of history, the movement has evolved to embrace a comprehensive approach to food that recognizes the strong connections between plate, planet, people, politics and culture. Today Slow Food represents a global movement involving thousands of projects and millions of people in over 160 countries. 1986 Slow Food is created in Italy after a demonstration on the intended site of a McDonald’s at the Spanish Steps in Rome. 1989 The international Slow Food movement is officially founded in Paris and the  Slow Food Manifesto  is signed. 1990 First  Slow Food International Congress  is held in Venice. The first  Osterie d’Italia   guide is published, marking the founding of   Slow Food...