Slow Food comes to Puget Sound

Slow Food UPS held its first meeting on October 24, 2006. Unsurprisingly, there was food involved: caramel apples made with homemade caramel and Liberty apples from Terry's Berries Farm.

Slow Food UPS is a campus convivium of Slow Food USA. We are in fact one of the first three campus convivia, joining Cornell and Georgetown in this regard! The idea for Slow Food UPS came from the International Political Economy Program's student steering committee (a.k.a. The Ministry of Hegemony), which is interested in developing campus programs that connect the local with global. Diana Hawk and Maggie Arends are responsible for organizing the group. Professor Veseth is faculty advisor.

Slow Food exists to provide an alternative to fast food and the fast world that it represents. The international Slow Food movement was founded in 1989 in Bra, Italy and has since spread world-wide with 85,000 members in 850 convivia or chapters. There are about 180 convivia in the United States. The first U.S. chapter was founded in Portland, Oregon in 1991.

Slow Food uses some of the mechanisms of globalization (such as this blog!) to undermine the dehumanizing effects of globalization. Click on the links at right to learn more about the international Slow Food movement.