Letter from Our Presidents
April 13, 2008
Dear Friends of Slow Food,members and potential members,
Welcome to our website.
As you know, our Slow Food Gardening in the Schools program, led by Katie Leonaitis and other volunteers, has made great progress in the past year. Another aspect of our effort to improve the quality of food in local schools is our co-sponsorship of this upcoming visit to several schools in the Roaring Fork Valley by Kate Adamick. The benefit dinner on the 23rd has been organized by the Children's Health Foundation to help defray the expenses of bringing Kate to our valley, and we are pleased to be able to help spread the word.
As you know, our Slow Food Gardening in the Schools program, led by Katie Leonaitis and other volunteers, has made great progress in the past year. Another aspect of our effort to improve the quality of food in local schools is our co-sponsorship of this upcoming visit to several schools in the Roaring Fork Valley by Kate Adamick. The benefit dinner on the 23rd has been organized by the Children's Health Foundation to help defray the expenses of bringing Kate to our valley, and we are pleased to be able to help spread the word.
Also, we want to thank everyone who turned out at Zocalito the other night for our wonderful dinner. If anyone has suggestions for other venues and topics for this informal get-togethers, please let one of us know. Right now we have no definite plans for our summer events, but we hope to be announcing things soon, so stay tuned.
Happy spring! (It's scheduled to arrive any day now)
Tom Passavant and Joyce Falcone
Co-Presidents
Slow Food Roaring Fork/Aspen
Least we forget:
APRIL 22 is EARTH DAY!
GENERAL INFORMATION REGARDING SLOW FOOD
Slow Food is an international, non-profit, educational food movement that began in 1982 in Italy, when Carlo Petrini and others began protesting a fast food lifestyle (okay, it was a McDonald's) that had arrived in the Piazza Navona in Rome. Over the past twenty-five, Slow Food has grown substantially in size and influence, and now counts over 760 conviviums in 104 counties. Our convivium, Slow Food Roaring Fork/Aspen, was inaugurated in March 2004. We are a part of the 150 or so convivia in the USA. Our founding five members were Jim Sorensen, Katie Leonaitis, Louisa Goldsmith, David K Gibson and Joyce Falcone. We currently have around 45 active members.
The current officers for 2008-2010 are: Joyce Falcone and Tom Passavant, Co-Presidents; Mary Louise Ryan, Secretary; Lari Goode, Treasurer; Katie Leonaitis is the director of our Slow Food in Schools gardening programs, and Leslie Johnson is our board member in Carbondale. Our website was designed and is maintained by ProjectWest.
It is our mission is to assist Slow Food USA and Slow Food International in their effort to spread the philosophy Slow Food. Our agenda is simple: to support local farmers producing foods sustainably, to provide education to our children through the school garden program, to protect the regional biodiversity of the western slope of Colorado, and to encourage everyone to savor the pleasures of the table in a slow and enjoyable manner.
We would like to thank you for your interest in Slow Food and look forward to meeting you during our next SLOW encounter.
