Slow Food Kaua'i: July 2009

Friday, July 31, 2009

ALL LOCAL MEAL CONTEST

ALL LOCAL MEAL CONTEST
at the Hawaii Healing Garden Festival

Attention Kauai “foodies” and “locovores…” eat your hearts out at the All Local Meal Contest, part if the Hawaii Healing Garden Festival, August 22, 2009. Held at the Kilohana Plantation in Lihue at 2 PM, it’s a culinary celebration of the delicious food available right on Kauai!

Chefs – both amateur & professional – are invited to showcase their skills and vie for the People’s Choice award and accompanying prizes. Register by August 10.

The Healing Garden Festival runs from 10 AM – 6 PM and is deliciously full of activities for the whole family, educational presentations, and vendors showcasing healthy & green products and services. The presenting sponsor is www.HawaiiHealthGuide.com and the presenter of the All Local Meal Contest is the new Green Business Directory.

See hawaiihealthguide.com for official entry rules. Tickets for contest sampling will be available for purchase on the day of the festival.

The Slow Food International Manifesto, 1989

Our century, which began and has developed under the insignia of industrial civilization, first invented the machine and then took it as its life model.

We are enslaved by speed and have all succumbed to the same insidious virus: Fast Life, which disrupts our habits, pervades the privacy of our homes and forces us to eat Fast Foods.

To be worthy of the name, Homo Sapiens should rid himself of speed before it reduces him to a species in danger of extinction.

A firm defense of quiet material pleasure is the only way to oppose the universal folly of Fast Life.

May suitable doses of guaranteed sensual pleasure and slow, long-lasting enjoyment preserve us from the contagion of the multitude who mistake frenzy for efficiency.

Our defense should begin at the table with Slow Food. Let us rediscover the flavors and savors of regional cooking and banish the degrading effects of Fast Food.

In the name of productivity, Fast Life has changed our way of being and threatens our environment and our landscapes. So Slow Food is now the only truly progressive answer.

That is what real culture is all about: developing taste rather than demeaning it. And what better way to set about this than an international exchange of experiences, knowledge, projects?

Slow Food guarantees a better future. Slow Food is an idea that needs plenty of qualified supporters who can help turn this (slow) motion into an international movement, with the little snail as its symbol.

Friday, July 31, 2009

ALL LOCAL MEAL CONTEST

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