The Slow Food movement is commendable in it's efforts to conserve the good cuisines that all cultures have evolved since they began to cook. In the long run I don't think it will overshadow local groups of farmers and cooks who love food and have a passion to reclaim our collective cultural heritages. Rexrhino, I think that you are completely wrong in your evaluation of slow food, completely off the mark. Good local food is almost always a product of average to poor folks taking cheap and plentiful ingredients and making delicious and nutritious dishes to feed their families and friends. How, pray tell, is this elitist? Perhaps at this point the only people able to afford good,local, organic foods are at the top of the food chain, but I must tell you that it is possible to grow your own heritage beans, tomatoes, and greens, without much effort, and it is possible to search out your local farms and learn about where food actually comes from, which inevitable will be the earth, the ground, the soil. All powered by the sun of course. These are basic things that structure our reality, and without them we can't go on playing our WoW on Wifi because we will be freaking dead. Unless of course you're of the opine that we will be able to create life out of nothing, which as of yet hasn't been possible. I think that Slow Food basically recognizes that we do not understand that multitude of intricacies that weave the ecologies that sustain our human lives, so it is better to stick with the tried and true and to savor life and the many heritage food that have sustained our existences up until now. Don't forget, it's easy and pretty cheap to join a CSA and get a box of veg every week, but I guess for some it's even easier to buy a Big Mac and participate in the gradual destruction of the earth that we really depend on. I know I sound like a hippy, but it's really that serious.

The Slow Food movement is commendable in it's efforts to conserve the good cuisines that all cultures have evolved since they began to cook. In the long run I don't think it will overshadow local groups of farmers and cooks who love food and have a passion to reclaim our collective cultural heritages. Rexrhino, I think that you are completely wrong in your evaluation of slow food, completely off the mark. Good local food is almost always a product of average to poor folks taking cheap and plentiful ingredients and making delicious and nutritious dishes to feed their families and friends. How, pray tell, is this elitist? Perhaps at this point the only people able to afford good,local, organic foods are at the top of the food chain, but I must tell you that it is possible to grow your own heritage beans, tomatoes, and greens, without much effort, and it is possible to search out your local farms and learn about where food actually comes from, which inevitable will be the earth, the ground, the soil. All powered by the sun of course. These are basic things that structure our reality, and without them we can't go on playing our WoW on Wifi because we will be freaking dead. Unless of course you're of the opine that we will be able to create life out of nothing, which as of yet hasn't been possible. I think that Slow Food basically recognizes that we do not understand that multitude of intricacies that weave the ecologies that sustain our human lives, so it is better to stick with the tried and true and to savor life and the many heritage food that have sustained our existences up until now. Don't forget, it's easy and pretty cheap to join a CSA and get a box of veg every week, but I guess for some it's even easier to buy a Big Mac and participate in the gradual destruction of the earth that we really depend on. I know I sound like a hippy, but it's really that serious.