Slow Food and Earth Fare Unite As Friends

Wine Tasting Friday, Cheese Tasting September 19

Story by Kris Golden

This Friday, September 4, from 5:00 to 7:00 p.m., Slow Food Boone invites everyone (age 21 and above) to a tasting of wines from the local New River Winery. In addition to the wine and hors d’oeuvres, a winemaker from New River Winery will describe the vineyard and the winemaking process. The suggested donation for the event is $5. Local art will also be available to coordinate with the Downtown Boone Art Crawl that evening.

Also, on Saturday, September 19, from 5:00 to 7:00 p.m., Slow Food Boone will host a cheese tasting and local hors d’oeuvres at Earth Fare.

Amy Galloway, a professor of psychology at ASU, descriptively accounts in this quote the focus of Slow Food Boone, “What organization could be better? The focus of our Slow Food chapter is to eat fabulous food and to learn about where it comes from. In between licking the sorghum syrup off our fingers or scratching the ears of a milk goat, we learn about the hard work and absolute devotion of our local farmers.”

Slow Food Boone is the Friend of Earth Fare for the entire month of September. Earth Fare will provide a donation to the organization and offer the Earth Fare facilities for two Slow Food events.

Being a Friend of Earth Fare means that each time a customer reuses a bag for groceries instead of taking a new paper or plastic one, Earth Fare donates 10 cents for each bag to nonprofit Slow Food Boone. Not only does this help everyone conserve non-renewable resources used in the production of both paper and plastic bags, it helps immediately impact the health of the community through supporting Slow Food Boone. Reusable bags will be available at the Slow Food display table throughout September and are free to community members.

Donations from both events and throughout the month of September will be welcomed at the Earth Fare cash registers or Slow Food display table. Slow Food Boone will use a portion of the proceeds to support local school gardens at Mabel and Bethel elementary schools.

“It’s an exciting time to be involved with food activism because these days folks understand that buying high-quality food grown by our farmers in the High Country supports the local economy,” said Galloway. 

Slow Food Boone, a local chapter of Slow Food International, is based in the High Country and the local chapter works to advocate for farmers and artisans who grow, produce, market, prepare and serve wholesome food. Members also promote the celebration of food as a cornerstone of pleasure, culture and community. The group seeks to raise public awareness, improve access and encourage the enjoyment of foods that are local, seasonal and sustainably grown. Slow Food seeks to create dramatic and lasting change in the food system by reconnecting Americans with the people, traditions, plants, animals, fertile soils and waters that produce food. The organization works to inspire a transformation in food policy, production practices and market forces to ensure equity, sustainability and pleasure in the food Americans eat.

For more information on Slow Food Boone and/or Slow Food USA, click to www.slowfoodboone.wordpress.com and/or www.slowfoodusa.org. For more information on New River Winery, click to www.newriverwinery.com .

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