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Slow Food Hot Chocolate

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Can’t think of anything that could help body and soul shake off a day like today than the above mentioned subjects.

And if you got time this afternoon to drop by the Century Center that’s exactly what you’ll get. The Slow Food Triangle folks, including a good number of local chefs and farmers, are reviewing their tour of Italy and the international Slow Food Conference in Torino. Sheila Neal of the Carrboro Farmers Market is the moderator.
From the release:

In October, twenty-one of our local farmers, chefs, educators and agriculture professionals joined 6,000 delegates from 150 nations in Turin, Italy to work together to find solutions to the challenges they face as stewards of their land and communities at Slow Food International’s 2006 Terra Madre. Please join us on Sunday, January 21 from 4-6 pm at the Carrboro Century Center’s Century Hall to hear our Triangle delegates share their stories. For directions and information about parking. please visit their website.
Come sip bicerin (tasty Torino-style hot chocolate made with local milk from pasture-raised cows), see pictures from the trip and ask our panel of delegates about their experience. There will also be time to find out more information about Slow Food, our local convivium, and sustainable food production in our area.

At around 6 pm, we will move the discussion to Panzanella where we will gather for an informal dinner. If you can join us at Panzanella, please call the restaurant at 929-6626 as soon as possible to reserve a spot since seating will be limited.

Terre Madre 2006:
Terra Madre is a network of food communities each committed to producing quality food in a responsible, sustainable way. Terra Madre 2006 focuses on the relationships between food communities, cooks, and universities, their respective roles and specialized knowledge within the food world and the ways they can work together to make good, clean and fair food possible.

Slow Food:
The founding father of the Slow Food Movement, Carlo Petrini, recognized in 1986 that the industrialization of food was standardizing taste and leading to the annihilation of thousands of food varieties and flavors. Concerned that the world was quickly reaching a point of no return, he wanted to reach out to consumers and demonstrate to them that they have choices over fast food and supermarket homogenization. Today the organization is active in 50 countries and has a worldwide membership of over 80,000.