what is slow food?

Slow food, is all about local and traditional foods made to be savoured.

It’s also a term used to promote an international movement against the mass production of the fast food industry. The slow food movement promotes healthy, locally-sourced food and regional traditions to combat the mindless and hurried consumption of food in the modern day. It is the opposite of globalization. It promotes local farmers, sustainable agriculture, heritage and provenance. It promotes honesty & quality starting from the soil up.

Is it important?

Take a minute’s pause and ponder with this: are the best meals, vegetables or fruit you have had those grown by your grandparents, or your neighbour, or that guy that sells watermelons by the side of the road, by someone from the office that shared some figs picked from his grandma’s back garden?

How about tomatoes? how about the smell and taste of those local heirloom tomatoes, grown naturally in their real season? when was the last time you enjoyed one of those?

Did you go once to your local market cos its kind of trendy, found some, swore you would never buy from anywhere else ever again but then you compromised and then eventually forgot you were even compromising and now you are having that fast salad again?

We are not really supposed to try and remember. We should not need to distinguish between slow and fast, but we do -we have agreed to this distinction and normalised it.

So is it important? do you care about your health or animal welfare or small farmers support, tradition, heritage, sustainability or climate change take your pick the list is pretty long or just keep it simple with - dont you just love how it feels in your senses to have real and honest food?

When was the last time you have?

I say, take whatever works for you and make it important, make it a priority, the world of slow deserves more people like you and me in its embrace.

Read more here: https://www.slowfood.com/