Slow Food

slow food is produced nearby;
here, from E. 7th and Denmark, Sonoma,
at the Garden Park,


slowness
is
one of
life's keys

to slow
down
is
to give
ourselves
a chance

to be present

to change our behavior

to learn
something new

to remember:
I am alive

to heal
ourselves
and the
Earth

to breathe
and follow
our breathing

to think
a new
thought

to feel
a
new feeling

to actually
listen
to another

to say
something
besides the same
old thing
we always say

to think
before
we
say
the same old thing

to move
in a new
and delicious
way

to savor
being

and to savor
being
alive

and to savor
all the Life
around us

.....

here's a component
to slowing
down,
the slow food movment
quotes follow:

Carlo Petrini, :Slow Food Nation

Book Description (coming this spring):

By now most of us are aware of
the threats looming in the food world.
The best-selling Fast Food Nation and
other recent books
(including Carlo Petini's
The Case for Taste)
have alerted us
to such dangers as genetically modified organisms,
food-borne diseases,
and industrial farming.

Now it is time for answers,
and Slow Food Nation steps up to the challenge.
Here the charismatic leader of the
Slow Food movement,
Carlo Petrini,
outlines many different routes by which
we may take back control of our food.

The three central principles of the Slow Food plan are these:
1.
food must be sustainably produced
in ways that are sensitive to the environment,
2.
those who produce the food
must be fairly treated,
3.
and the food must be healthful and delicious.

In his travels around the world
as ambassador for Slow Food,
Petrini has witnessed firsthand the many
ways that native peoples are feeding themselves
without making use of the harmful
methods of the industrial complex.

He relates the wisdom to be gleaned
from local cultures in such varied places
as Mongolia, Chiapas, Sri Lanka, and Puglia.

Amidst our crisis,
it is critical that Americans look
for insight from other cultures
around the world and begin to
build a new and better way of eating in our communities here.

About the Author
Carlo Petrini is the founder and driving force of Slow Food and was recently acclaimed as a great innovator in Time magazine's list of "European Heroes."

See, if you wish,
a Interview with Carol Petrini