{"id":13092,"date":"2011-02-09T09:28:43","date_gmt":"2011-02-09T13:28:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/foodembrace.com\/?p=13092"},"modified":"2011-02-09T09:28:43","modified_gmt":"2011-02-09T13:28:43","slug":"slow-food-columbus","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/foodembrace.com\/2011\/02\/slow-food-columbus\/","title":{"rendered":"Slow Food Columbus"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/foodembrace.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/02\/slowfood_cbus.jpg\" data-rel=\"attachment-image-0\" data-rl_title=\"\" data-rl_caption=\"\" title=\"\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-13099\" title=\"Slow Food Columbus \" src=\"http:\/\/foodembrace.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/02\/slowfood_cbus.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"200\" height=\"124\" \/><\/a>I recently attended my first <a href=\"http:\/\/slowfoodcolumbus.org\/Welcome.html\" target=\"_blank\">Slow Food Columbus<\/a> meeting.\u00a0 I have been to a few classes sponsored by Slow Food but this was my first official Slow Food meeting and I&#8217;m really looking forward to becoming more involved with this group.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/slowfoodusa.org\/\" target=\"_blank\">Slow Food <\/a>is the exact opposite of <em>fast food<\/em>.\u00a0 The Slow Food motto is &#8220;Good, clean, and fair food&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>For those of you that have been following me for a while you know that there are several things I support:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Cooking at home<\/li>\n<li>Shopping at local businesses<\/li>\n<li>Educating yourself on where your food comes from<\/li>\n<li>Choosing to eat foods that are local and clean<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Slow Food represents all of these things and I&#8217;m happy to have found a connection with like minded people.\u00a0 By putting on classes, creating tastings, and events that feature local farmers, Slow Food makes educating ourselves about the foods we eat a little easier.\u00a0 They show us how simple it is to eat well and eat local.<\/p>\n<p>At the meeting, I learned that there are 5 Different Areas of Slow Food Columbus you can become involved in:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Conviviality<\/li>\n<li>Biodiversity<\/li>\n<li>Taste Education<\/li>\n<li>Food Policy<\/li>\n<li>Slow Food in Schools<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>For more information about what each group does, please <a href=\"http:\/\/slowfoodcolumbus.org\/Programs.html\" target=\"_blank\">Click Here<\/a>. There is also contact information for the chairs of each committee and they would be happy to talk with you about becoming involved.<\/p>\n<p>You can read more about <a href=\"http:\/\/slowfoodcolumbus.org\/About.html\" target=\"_blank\">Slow Food Columbus HERE<\/a> and with even more contact information available. Or you can Follow Slow Food Columbus on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.twitter.com\/slowfoodcmh\" target=\"_blank\">Twitter<\/a> or on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/#!\/pages\/Slow-Food-Columbus\/139992052698940\" target=\"_blank\">Facebook<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>You can become a member of Slow Food USA, which is the parent group, for $25 per year.\u00a0 From that website you&#8217;ll be able to see if there is a <a href=\"http:\/\/slowfoodusa.org\/index.php\/local_chapters\/\" target=\"_blank\">Slow Foods chapter in your area<\/a>. If not, you can find information about starting one!<\/p>\n<p>Will I see you at the next Slow Food Columbus event? I hope so!<\/p>\n<p><strong>Are you involved with Slow Food? Have you heard about the program before?<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I recently attended my first Slow Food Columbus meeting.\u00a0 I have been to a few classes sponsored by Slow Food but this was my first official Slow Food meeting and I&#8217;m really looking forward to becoming more involved with this group. Slow Food is the exact opposite of fast food.\u00a0 The Slow Food motto is [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[58],"tags":[62],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4KYWa-3pa","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/foodembrace.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13092"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/foodembrace.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/foodembrace.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/foodembrace.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/foodembrace.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13092"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/foodembrace.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13092\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/foodembrace.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13092"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/foodembrace.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13092"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/foodembrace.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13092"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}