Slow Food in San Francisco Chronicle
Inside a former Olympic speed skating stadium in Turin, Italy, something very slow is taking place and spreading fast.
It’s the second Slow Food Terra Madre, a gathering of farmers, food producers, chefs and others who care about the quality, sustainability, regionalism and taste of the world’s food. Here’s a paragraph from the story by reporter Carol Ness, written in the San Francisco Chronicle, to set the scene:
“Senegalese cereal farmers in purple satin and matching headdresses trade packaging tips with Peruvian potato growers in traditional red embroidered garb. Goat cheese makers and Hmong longbean growers from California find common ground with their Italian and Eastern European counterparts. Israeli and Palestinian farmers, along with Iraqi and American food producers, share space and the excited chat that food never fails to stimulate.”
More than 5,000 small farmers and small scale food producers from 130 countries and 1,000 chefs are at the conference to share food, knowledge and connections. Slow Food was formed 20 years ago as a way of saving traditional Italian cuisines and restaurants. It has grown into an international movement working toward bringing food economies back to their local roots, according to the San Francisco Chronicle article.
To read more about the Terra Madre conference, the Slow Food movement and the experience of Bay area growers and chefs in attendance, read the article on the Chronicle’s website.
