Whats unique about Canadas Slow Food movement?
Canada and the U.S. are pretty much similar. You are creating a new historical heritage in North America. Farmers’ markets and Community Supported Agriculture (CSAs) – these are North American concepts that we are now adopting in Europe. And microbreweries. When I first visited the United States, there were only two kinds of beer available. Now there are more than 4,000. You have written that pleasure is not just sensual but also intellectual, and that the gourmet takes a sensual pleasure in food while a gastronome also takes in intellectual pleasure in it. A gastronome has a vision that is more holistic, interdisciplinary and complex. A gourmet just focuses on the pleasure of the dish. He is an egotist. I think a gastronome must be an environmentalist. A gastronome who is not an environmentalist is stupid. And an environmentalist who is not a gastronome is sad. For many people, you are the spirit and embodiment of the Slow Food movement. What will happen to the organization when you a
