Posted by Bruce Bilmes and Sue Boyle
, September 11, 2008 16:22
Slow Food Nation, an outgrowth of the Slow Food movement that started in Italy, took place during Labor Day weekend in San Francisco. To quote the Slow Food Nation website: “Slow Food Nation is dedicated to creating a framework for deeper environmental connection to our food and aims to inspire and empower Americans to build a food system that is sustainable, healthy and delicious.”
George Yatchisin was there, and wrote about it for The Santa Barbara Independent. He notes that there were seven million American farms in the 1930’s. Today there are two million, and half of them are corporate-owned. While we have mixed feelings about some of the specifics of the sustainable-food movement, the industrialization of our food supply has undeniably brought with it a slew of problems. Certainly anything that gets people thinking about where their food comes from, and why, is a good thing.
And there’s no denying that the Tamale Yucatecos served at Slow Food Nation by Primavera Tamales sounds scrumptious: “organic masa, Riverdog Farm Swiss chard, Early Girl tomato salsa, organic hardboiled egg, and pumpkin seed pesto.” Yes, there were good eats at Slow Food Nation!
Note: The title of this post comes from the title of a book by Sandor Ellix Katz. We like it, so we used it (the title; we haven’t read the book).
