Taste, Traditions, and the Honest Pleasures of Food

 

Public Meeting Thursday April 3rd 2008 at 7pm at the Leon County Library - Main Branch downtown.
We have some exciting new ideas, new goals, and new committees. We want to share this information with you and hear your ideas!
Plus we will have a great speaker: Beverly from Raw Naturel will provide demos, print material, and a discussion about the myths/facts of Raw Food.
We will be asking for a $1 donation to help offset her costs for the evening program.

 

What is Slow Food Tallahassee?

Slow Food Tallahassee is strongly committed to promoting the idea of slowing down.  It's time to embrace the pleasures of the kitchen and return the table to it's rightful spot as as the center of pleasure, culture and community.  Bring the whole family and pull up a chair, this is where you belong.

"Slow Food aims to be everything fast food is not."  -- USA Today

Slow Food Tallahassee is an organization that believes strongly in increasing the awareness of local agriculture and in bringing scrutiny to our accepted food sources and their quality.  We embrace the idea of buying foods locally and getting to know your food sources much better.   When you buy locally you re-establish a connection with the people in your community, and keep our local farms going.  When you read labels and educate yourself you can make informed decisions that have rippling effects on the world around you.

An alternative to the current industrial food production system exists: one where food quality and variety are valued, rural regions thrive, and links between producers and consumers are strong.

Here in North Florida and South Georgia, our local Slow Food Tallahassee convivia is blessed with several farms, farmers markets, organic growers, and a dairy or two. We want to support these established growers and promote new ones. To do this we will use pot-luck dinners, field trips, and various kinds of food-centered celebrations to explore authentic flavors... and to slow down and enjoy a world of good food, good wine and good company.  Join us today!

Recognizing that the enjoyment of wholesome food is essential to the pursuit of happiness, Slow Food USA is an educational organization dedicated to stewardship of the land and ecologically sound food production; to the invigoration and proliferation of regional, seasonal culinary traditions; and to living a slower and more harmonious rhythm of life.  Slow Food Tallahassee is your connection to that greater effort.

We applaud Slow Food's rejection of homogeneity and its celebration of the local,

the quirky, the rare. -Saveur