Doe Bay Café will host a Slow Food Potluck in honor of Terra Madre Day next Wednesday, Dec. 9th, at 5p.m. This is a free public event (the café is not open for business).
Doe Bay is welcoming local farmers, cooks, grocers and neighbors who are interested in supporting Local Food to come share their food and beverages together.
Guests are asked to be homemade food and, and if possible, homegrown or homebrewed food; also self-caught or wildcrafted foods are requested.
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About Terra Madre Day
Terra Madre Day celebrates 20 years of Slow Food: a network of more than 100,000 members across 150 countries, grouped in 1,300 convivia – local chapters – who are working to defend their local culinary culture.
“At Doe Bay, we would like to invite you to our Terra Madre Day Potluck, a local gathering of Orcas Island farmers, cooks and co-producers, sharing deliciously prepared dishes in order to celebrate eating locally grown food cooked by our own hands. We will all share our experiences, our sweet successes as we start the journey towards finding solutions to the challenges we all face as a community,” says Abigael Birrell, head chef at Doe Bay.
A short documentary called “People of Terra Madre” will also be shown.
What is Slow Food?
Slow Food is a non-profit, eco-gastronomic, member-supported organization. Founded in 1989, Slow Food’s mission is to counteract fast food and fast life, the disappearance of local food traditions and people’s dwindling interest
in the food they eat, where it comes from, how it tastes and how our food choices affect the rest of the world.
Slow Food promotes the pleasures of the table and regional food cultures and protects them from the homogenization of industrial food production. To do that, Slow Food brings
together pleasure and responsibility, and makes them inseparable. With gastronomy bound inextricably to agriculture, the environment and the health of communities, Slow Food has naturally broadened its focus over the years to actively support producers who demonstrate a small-scale, sustainable andlocal food production model.
What is Terra Madre?
Terra Madre is a project conceived by Slow Food, the philosophy of which evolved over the organization’s history and crystallized at its realization that “eating is an agricultural act and producing is a gastronomic act.”
Slow Food realized the need to protect and support small producers, and to change the systems that put them in danger by bringing together those players with decision-making power: consumers, educational institutions,
chefs and cooks, agricultural research entities, NGOs, etc.
It became clear that it is only through repeated, cumulative, local action, following a guiding global vision, that a significant impact can be achieved.
Thus Terra Madre was born: To give voice and visibility to the rural food producers who populate our world. To raise their awareness, as well as that of the population at large, of the value of their work. To sustain their ability to work under the best conditions, for all of our
good and for the good of the planet.
More About Slow Food and Terra Madre…
www.terramadre.org
www.slowfood.com
More information on the Doe Bay Café Potluck: 376-8059.
