Slow Food and Convivia

I enjoy the process of preparing food, as a social art. I guess it goes back to memories of sitting on the front porch with grandma shelling peas, snapping beans, or shucking corn. Also, making pies with grandma, mom, my aunt, and cousins. There is something to the community process of getting a delicious repast, spread.

I enjoy the sociality as we prepare, enjoy, and clean up. The chatter, the discussion, the connection. The real life, supported by technology in its proper place. Where relationship reigns supreme.

There is a movement afoot, the Slow Food, rather than fast food movement. They call their groups convivia. This movement is only the tip of the iceberg to the movement to just slow down and simplify. I think the baby boomer generation is recalling the simpler life of their childhood and seeking the peace it can bring, to this plugged in, tuned out, high tech world. They are seeking the harmony of life, where technology serves us, rather than controls us. They seek relationship with the living, rather than with objects.

Slow food tastes better and is better for us.