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Musings from Sonoma County's Slow Food Conviviati
Not a bad ethic, eh? While I like to think life can be as simple as a skip in the park, the demands of most of our lives can at times make slowing down nearly impossible. In an effort to encourage a little more looking for love in our daily routine, sonomapicnic.com would like to introduce you to the Slow Food Movement.
Please include a return address. Photos are welcome, but don't send originals. Anything sent on floppy with a hard copy would be most appreciated, and email works great, too. (Please email image files directly to the webmaster, though, rather than to Jack's mailbox, please.) Links to our "Slow Living" features are presented to the right.
The Editor
Our century, which began and has developed under the insignia of industrial civilization, first invented the machine and then took it as its life model.
We are enslaved by speed and have all succumbed to the same insidious virus: Fast Life, which disrupts our habits, pervades the privacy of our homes and forces us to eat Fast Foods.
To be worthy of the name, Homo Sapiens, we should rid ourselves of speed before it reduces us to a species in danger of extinction.
A firm defense of quiet material pleasure is the only way to oppose the universal folly of Fast Life.
May suitable doses of guaranteed sensual pleasure and slow, long-lasting enjoyment preserve us from the contagion of the multitude who mistake frenzy for efficiency.
Our defense should begin at the table with Slow Food. Let us rediscover the flavors and savors of regional cooking and banish the degrading effects of Fast Food.
In the name of productivity, Fast Life has changed our way of being and threatens our environment and our landscapes. So Slow Food is now the only truly progressive answer.
That is what real culture is all about: developing taste rather than demeaning it. And what better way to set about this than an international exchange of experiences, knowledge, projects?
Slow Food guarantees a better future.
Slow Food is an idea that needs plenty of qualified supporters who can help turn this (slow) motion into an international movement, with the little snail as its symbol.
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Slow Food Features:
1. The Fisherman and the Octopus 2. "Skorda? No Skorda!" 3. "Live and Learn"
Contact Slow Food folks around the world, rapidly!
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Slow Food Links to Celebrated American Producers Featured at the October 2002 Salone del Gusto in Turin
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