Slow Food
Roaring Fork
PO Box 774
Carbondale, CO 81623
Slow
Food Roaring Fork
Board Members
Tom Passavant
President
970/963-0205
passavant@aol.com
Paul Noto
Vice President
noto@waterlaw.com
Lari Goode
Tresurer
970/379-8160
larigoode@aol.com
Dawne Vrabel
Secretary
732/284-8477
dawnevrabel@gmail.com
Theresa Rumery
Membership Coordinator
970/876-0668
theresa@osagegardens.com
Tanya Stevens
Sargeant at Arms
To join Slow
Food Roaring Fork/Aspen, Click
Here toand you will be redirected to the Slow Food USA
membership page. When you fill out the form, be sure to select Aspen (Roaring
Fork) under the Colorado chapter listings. This will become your primary chapter
affiliation. Thank you!
What
is a Convivium
Though English has convivial, which is based on the Latin convivium for a
feast or banquet (or, more broadly, a living together, from con + vivo), "convivium"
has not itself been in the language until recently.
It started to appear in Britain and other parts of the English-speaking world
in the late 1990s to refer to local groups or chapters?usually named in the
plural as convivia?set up by the Slow Food movement. This was formed in 1989,
as a result of an Italian initiative, as a reaction against increasing globalization
and standardization of food, especially fast food (hence its name).
One of its aims is the preservation, encouragement, and promotion of local
specialities, for example in cheeses, traditional ales, breeds of animals,
and varieties of fruits and vegetables. A key theme is to link together those
who enjoy good food with the environmentalists who want to preserve and support
local, small-scale producers, especially those using organic farming methods.
Its emblem is the snail, seen as a symbol both of gastronomic delight and
of "slowness".
Each convivium has a leader who is responsible for organising food and wine
events, tasting workshops and who generally raises the awareness of small
local producers. [Independent, July 2001]
Funding and support for these projects comes from local convivia and producers
as well as the regional authorities?the ideal of community lies at the heart
of the Slow movement. [Observer Food Monthly, Nov. 2001]