How were the farmers and producers chosen for the Marketplace and Taste Pavilions?
Slow Food Nation released a call for nominations through grassroots networks and received hundreds of responses via nominations from Slow Food USA members, chefs, farmers and individual visitors to our web site. Additionally, the curators of Slow Food Nation were responsible for nominating products for inclusion in the Marketplace as well as selecting products to be featured in the Taste Pavilions. The Slow Food Nation team evaluated these products – and made decisions to integrate forums, films, and workshops into programming – by the criteria established on our value map. The overarching mission of Slow Food Nation is to build a food system that is good (delicious), clean (environmentally sound) and fair (socially just). Beyond the goals we had for shaping an individual’s experience of the event, we established the goal that each product, each panel and each single element of the event tell a diverse and unique story. Ideally, all featured products would have met all of these criteri
