Slow Food

For years I've tried to find a way to combine my passion for the environment, growing and eating healthy food, writing, cooking (and eating!). I wasn't sure exactly what my cause was until I heard about the Slow Food movement in Italy. Once I learned more about the Slow Food cause, I felt like my seemingly disparate passions had finally found a happy home.

In 1989, Carlo Petrini, an Italian, founded the Slow Food movement to "counteract 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." 

And I super like this last line: "Slow Food brings together pleasure and responsibility, and makes them inseparable."

Ah...leave it to Italians to combine pleasure and responsibility. Che miracolo! I don't know where I got my fabulous guilty conscience from, but I've spent most of my life feeling guilty for pleasure, as if the only meaningful thing I could do was be responsible for everything and everyone, instead of actually having a bit of fun.

Boring!

It's time to change things up a bit.

So, here are my two goals for La Cucina Orgasmica, which will combine pleasure and responsibility both for you and for me:

Goal numero uno: To provide simple, healthy, and ridiculously delicious (dare I say orgasmic?) Italian recipes, with wheat and gluten-free options for those with fabulously fun sensitivities like me.

Goal numero due: To help support the mission of the Slow Food movement: to get you thinking about the food you eat, where it comes from, how it tastes, and how our food choices affect the rest of the world.

So...cominciamo! Let's begin!

P.S. While you're at it, check out the Slow Food website at: www.slowfood.com