What is Slow Food?
Slow Food is an idea, a way of living and a way of eating. It is a global, grassroots movement that links the pleasure of food with a commitment to community and the environment. Slow Food East End (Long Island) is a chapter of Slow Food USA, a non-profit organization, and through them, part of a larger international Slow Food effort to counteract fast food and fast life, the disappearance of local food traditions, and people’s dwindling knowledge about what they are eating, what it contains, where it comes from, how it tastes, and how our food choices affect the rest of the world.
Slow East End?
Our fast-paced world slows down here on the east end. We go slow on the road behind farm tractors. Or when walking the winter beach, or picking a June strawberry. With 34,000 acres still in active farming and vinifera vineyards, and a proud heritage of fishing and shellfishing, if not slow food here, then where?
Our Mission
Slow Food East End is a chapter of Slow Food USA, a non-profit organization that is part of international Slow Food, which has chapters in 132 nations around the world. The Slow Food movement brings together thousands of like-minded people to spread the word about the advantages (health, economic, environmental) of eating locally, seasonally
On the eastern end of Long Island we do that through education, sharing food in social settings, and encouraging consumers to consider carefully what they eat and drink. Our agricultural East End offers a unique opportunity in this regard. We can shop the local farmers’ markets, seafood shops, farm stands, local wineries and breweries. We can enjoy the freshest, deliciously ripe seasonal foods, while helping preserve our area's farms and natural, rural beauty.
Slow Food East End’s website is managed and edited by our Communications Committee: Tullia Limarzi, Chair and web editor, and contributing editors: Jeannie Calderale, Anne Howard, Mary Morgan, Carrie Ann Salvi, Linda Slezak, Ivo Tomasini and Jeri Woodhouse. Contact: SlowInfo@slowfoodeastend.org
We wish to thank our webmasters John Bogosian, web producer, and Jeremy Firsenbaum of, 27e Web Technology for their expertise and generosity in creating this site.
