I know that the UK is faraway from Cupertino but the message in the introduction is common to California and the US as well and concerns the growing issues surrounding our current food system and our food culture in general. The slow food movement in the US is in a similar situation to the UK and as mentioned in the podcast it is a series of dots that need to be joined together. Well my friends you hold the pencil that does the joining. No massive marketing campaign of TV advert is going to be coming anytime soon as this very much a grass root movement.
This whole podcast is basically an award show for slow food producers and purveyors in the UK the introduction by HRM Prince Charles (yep the guy that jilted Dianna) succinctly characterizes why this is important. The message is very much inline with the core objective of this blog.
By all means listen to the whole podcast and even though it is speaking to the UK (which is smaller than CA) try this little exercise. For each award ask yourself who you would give the same award to in your area. If you have an answer tell someone else (tell all your friends, blog, twitter, facebook etc) if not then start asking around and see if anyone else might have a candidate. This is how Slowfood happens and the dots get joined.
thanks for listening.....soapbox being put away now, for the moment
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