Comments on: Slow Food: Elitist, Irrelevant or Just Too Defensive? http://peoplesgrocery.org/brahm/peoples-grocery/slow-food-elitist-irrelevant-or-just-too-defensive Brahm Ahmadi's Personal Blog Thu, 21 Aug 2008 18:19:40 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.0.1 by: Sudeep Motupalli Rao http://peoplesgrocery.org/brahm/peoples-grocery/slow-food-elitist-irrelevant-or-just-too-defensive#comment-27849 Wed, 28 May 2008 23:34:21 +0000 http://peoplesgrocery.org/brahm/peoples-grocery/slow-food-elitist-irrelevant-or-just-too-defensive#comment-27849 Thank You Brahm for articulating beautifully an important aspect of the Slow Food phenomenon. I never read Bruce Sterling's write up but when I first came to know about Slow Food, I was immediately aware of the jarring disconnect with low income people, minorities or for that matter any common man or woman. It came across to me as a European import that was consumed without digestion. Reminded me about aristocracy and all the anachronistic manure that's associated with it. But after meeting and hearing Carlo Petrini speak and studying the origins of the movement and its philosophy, I realized that it was fundamentally very earthy and familial. It resonates deep within. I think that we're justifiably repulsed by the contemporary and local manifestation of Slow Food because it didn't pause to introspect about people that are not at the table. And why it was so. The season has changed and people are emerging who have a fresh inclusive vision. I concur that the issue is not how can we get more low income people or minorities to join the Slow Food movement but rather how Slow Food can fundamentally redefine and chart a blazing path to remedy the inequities so that after a while we realize and discover that the person we're embracing is a slow foodie, less poor and very different from us. Welcome to Slow Food 2.0. Sudeep Motupalli Rao Host, The Food Justice Community Kitchen at The Big ONE Convergence www.beautifulcommunities.org Thank You Brahm for articulating beautifully an important aspect of the Slow Food phenomenon. I never read Bruce Sterling’s write up but when I first came to know about Slow Food, I was immediately aware of the jarring disconnect with low income people, minorities or for that matter any common man or woman. It came across to me as a European import that was consumed without digestion. Reminded me about aristocracy and all the anachronistic manure that’s associated with it. But after meeting and hearing Carlo Petrini speak and studying the origins of the movement and its philosophy, I realized that it was fundamentally very earthy and familial. It resonates deep within. I think that we’re justifiably repulsed by the contemporary and local manifestation of Slow Food because it didn’t pause to introspect about people that are not at the table. And why it was so.

The season has changed and people are emerging who have a fresh inclusive vision. I concur that the issue is not how can we get more low income people or minorities to join the Slow Food movement but rather how Slow Food can fundamentally redefine and chart a blazing path to remedy the inequities so that after a while we realize and discover that the person we’re embracing is a slow foodie, less poor and very different from us. Welcome to Slow Food 2.0.

Sudeep Motupalli Rao
Host, The Food Justice Community Kitchen at The Big ONE Convergence
www.beautifulcommunities.org

]]> by: TracyFood » Recent reading roundup! http://peoplesgrocery.org/brahm/peoples-grocery/slow-food-elitist-irrelevant-or-just-too-defensive#comment-24973 Tue, 20 May 2008 17:39:40 +0000 http://peoplesgrocery.org/brahm/peoples-grocery/slow-food-elitist-irrelevant-or-just-too-defensive#comment-24973 [...] I had another “what does this mean about my world?” moment when I found out aboutBruce Sterling on Slow Food, which I haven’t read yet, but discovered through a People’s Grocery blog post with the awesome title Slow Food: Elitist, Irrelevant or Just Too Defensive? Win. [...] […] I had another “what does this mean about my world?” moment when I found out aboutBruce Sterling on Slow Food, which I haven’t read yet, but discovered through a People’s Grocery blog post with the awesome title Slow Food: Elitist, Irrelevant or Just Too Defensive? Win. […]

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