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Jan 17, 2007 19:33

Local Food Tasting
Wednesday January 24th, 8pm Danforth LoungeThe impromptu culinary club is bringing a student chapter of Slow Food USA to campus (www.slowfood.com). Several local producers/organizations have generously donated bread, cheese, cured meat, and other foods for the event. So come eat some tasty free food ( Read more... )

Comments 9

softlycrying January 18 2007, 01:44:24 UTC

I'd definitely like to be on the d-list for that. Anything involving yummy food is always good! ^_^

lisibit January 18 2007, 11:06:55 UTC

Sure thing. What's your andrew ID?

softlycrying January 19 2007, 05:40:42 UTC

Oh! Right... cpalermo :) Thanks

betaphen January 18 2007, 01:53:47 UTC

and you do this after i've left.

anguish!

gustavolacerda January 18 2007, 03:45:39 UTC

I like this idea! I just missed this one. When is the next time?

lisibit January 18 2007, 11:07:41 UTC

I'm confused on what you've missed. This event is next wednesday.

rapier1 January 18 2007, 04:04:00 UTC

Personally, I'd be way more into the Slow Food thing if they'd drop the pseudo political/environmental rhetoric and just focus on the food. The explict and implicit economic elitism is annoying to say the least.

lisibit January 18 2007, 11:12:48 UTC

There are things about the organization that I don't care for (especially some of the very awkward vocabulary ie convivia)

Personally, i'd like a student chapter more focused on having food related events and addressing campus-specific and local issues. I think it could be what people wanted to make it- not just snooty people wanting to go to expensive wine dinners and feeling like they're politically superior and environmentally informed.

What sort of changes would make you more interested in this?

rapier1 January 24 2007, 17:54:22 UTC

Food. Its all about the food. Local is great - but mostly because of the freshness issue rather than anything else. The 'sustainability' thing usually encompasses a whole range of assumptions about what is best or what isn't. However, the upshot is generally that the focus is on foods that have a premium price that exclude the people that could be most helped by a greater appreciation of 'slow' foods. As such this sort of thing ends up being aimed at the economic and social elite with only lip service being paid to the underclass. Its also generally is a rejection of green revolution techniques that have allowed the world to have 8 billion people on it with a lower level of famine and hunger than we've ever seen in the history of humanity. Less than 70 years ago famine and malnutrition was a serious concern - even in the United States. Now, for the most part, hunger is a result of political unrest and transportation infrastructure rather than not having enough food. A lot of slow foodists I know either want to, essentially, return to ( ... )