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Fast Slow Food
Posted on 4/25/2006 in musings

The steering committee of Slow Food Piedmont Triad has often discussed the need to show people that Slow Food need not be, well, slow.  Crock pots aren't excluded but they certainly aren't necessary.  While I hope many of the ideas batted around come to fruition, like fast Slow Food demos at the farmers' markets, I'm going to periodically post some of my fast slow menus here in the meantime.  To me, Slow Food is as much about intention as it is about the food itself.  In my mind, I see joy and leisure and sensory pleasures as integral components.

The other night, I spent the evening with a wonderful friend, Chelsea.  We met while working at Great Harvest Bread Company; we were both finishing college - she in piano and I in psychology.  She has since been one of those friends who is just easy to spend time with, if you know what I mean.  The kind of friend you can say anything to, have friendly debates with, sit smack next to even when on a couch big enough for a crowd. 

Anyway, Chelsea came over with a bottle of Shiraz, most of which we drank while standing around the kitchen, laughing, eating a button of Goat Lady Dairy dill and chive chevre on pita chips.  I tried out a new recipe for pesto that my sister, Rachel, found and passed along (I am her test kitchen, a job a truly enjoy), made more wholesome by the addition of flaxseed.  It was a parsley pesto – I’ll make it again with my preferred pesto base, basil.  The entire meal took at most a half hour to put together and was divine if only for the intention, the pure enjoyment and, most of all, the company.


 



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