Slow Food

There is a movement called Slow Food, a grassroots Italian movement claiming that “a firm defense of quiet material pleasure is the only way to oppose the universal folly of Fast Life.”  They also link the pleasure of good food with a commitment to community and the environment.

Michael Pollan writes:

“You have to wonder whether it’s realistic to think the American way of eating can be reformed without also reforming the whole American way of life.  Fast food is precisely the way you’d expect a people to eat who put success at the center of life, who work long hours (with two careers per household), get only a couple of weeks vacation each year, and who can’t depend on a social safety net to cushion them from life’s blows. 

But Slow Food’s wager is that making time and slowing down to eat, an activity that happens three times a day and ramifies all through a culture, is precisely the wedge that can begin to crack the whole edifice.”

Truly, one of the things that excited me the most about leaving my corporate routine was that I would be able to make my own breakfast, lunch, and dinner, and to truly be able to put the time and love into my cooking that my family and my body deserve.

Perhaps some of the balance lies in slowing down and making time to cook and eat. 

Off to wash, cook, and eat (slowly) the lovely, new veggies!