Saturday is usually food day in the city – there’s the farmer’s market at the ferry building and it’s one of the few days when most of us have time to cook.
However, today the Slow Food Nation fair hit town and it was time to go and sample some of the wares available. 50,000 people are expected to attend and the city’s been gearing up for it for months. Part of the Civic Centre has been turned into an organic garden (see photo), there’s a music festival and stalls are packing out the city offering food you may not have tasted before.
The Slow Food movement started in Italy in the 1980s as a conglomeration of environmental and leftist thought on the nature of food itself. It builds seed banks, promotes non-standard varieties of fruits and vegetables and lobbies for higher food standards.
I took time to sample a number of new things, including an excellent wild rice salad, orange sherbet ice cream and picked up some slow roasted almonds for later. The tastes were superb and it made a very nice day out in the sun.
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