Slow Food is a non-profit member supported International movement, founded in 1989 to counter the rise of fast food and fast life, the disappearance of local food traditions and people's dwindling interest in the food they eat, where it comes from, how it tastes and how our food choices affect the rest of the world.

We were honored to host Paolo Di Croce our Slow Food International Executive Director here in Philadelphia a few weeks back.  Thanks to your generosity we raised $500 as a donation for Coalition Against Hunger a grassroots organization headed by Carey Morgan that provides food to those in need in our community.

Paolo gave us an inspirational speech on the value of good, clean, and fair food and showed a video of a Terra Madre Program that Slow Food International has been spearheading "A Thousand Gardens in Africa". The project is working toward creating vegetable gardens in schools and villages throughout Africa.  To learn more about this project and how you can donate go to www.slowfood.com/donate/pagine/eng/progetti.lasso.