In the Race
Now, here, you see, it takes all the blogging I can do to keep in the same place.
If I want to get somewhere else, I must blog twice as fast as that!
You see, I'm in
the Red Queen's Race...
Slow Food? Not So Fast; At Least In The Mid-West
By Janet Evans
Saturday, Sep 13 2008, 07:05 AM
“Slow food;” it’s a movement, if you will.
Basically, it’s about eating more healthy…a change in lifestyle.
I know there are people here in Wisconsin who eat this way…fresh foods, organics. But look around in Wisconsin and what you’ll still see is mostly fast foods…
Out west it’s a different story:
"TOURISTS who took a wrong turn on their way to San Francisco’s cable car recently were in for a shock. There, between City Hall and other government buildings, a temporary organic garden had sprung up. Around it bustled a farmers’ market. Healthy-looking people were sampling local hams, heirloom tomatoes and raw-milk cheeses. And thus the Slow Food movement, founded two decades ago in Italy, officially arrived in America, the home of fast food. For several days there were taste pavilions here and slow hikes, slow picnics and slow dinners there. Chefs demonstrated their craft and put the footage up on You Tube. The world’s food celebrities weighed in on everything from the global food crisis to the role of food in the presidential election. "
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