The aim of the international Slow Food movement is to protect the pleasures of the table from the modern homogenization of fast food and fast life. The movement began in 1986 with a protest of the first opening of McDonalds on the Spanish Stairs in Rome. Today it is 80,000 members strong representing over 100 countries.
Slow Food members are organized into local chapters or “convivia” and work at the grassroots level to carry out the Slow Food mission at the local, national and international level. Slow Food USA oversees the activities of over 140 convivia in North America. Check out slowfoodusa.org to find a convivia near you or http://ecogastronomy.org/slowfood/ for our local Teton County Chapter.
Bob Arndt our wonderful owner of the store is a board member of our local Slow Foods Chapter.
