Tauranga Slow Food – Appreciating Food from the Beginning to the End!

 

 

The Slow Food movement started in Italy in 1986, mainly as a backlash to fast food.  It’s about getting back to the basics of caring where food comes from and the enjoyment of preparing it and cooking it yourself.  Our lives are now so hectic, it’s good to take the time to cook and enjoy a meal with your family and friends, even just one day a week.

 

The movement encourages us to source food locally and to eat food that is in season, something which is becoming more important in these days of climate change and caring about our carbon footprint.  There are also enormous health benefits to eating seasonal food which you have grown and cooked yourself, because it is fresher and you can control what fertilisers, pesticides or additives are used.  It’s about appreciating food from the beginning to the end.

 

 

‘Degustation’ means ‘a careful appreciative tasting of various foods’ and the evening begins at 6pm with canapés and a glass of mulled wine, followed by a seven course dinner, using locally sourced produce, prepared by three top local chefs: James Broad of Cuisine Concepts, Peter Blakeway of Deli on Devonport and BOP Polytechnic’s Hospitality Tutor, Lee Pearce, assisted by hospitality students from the Polytechnic.

 

There will be a cash bar with wine, beer and juice available on the night.  Tickets for the dinner cost $85 and are available from Bel Mondo at 68 St John Street, Deli on Devonport at 22 Devonport Road & Good Earth Organics at 5 Merivale Street, Tauranga or by emailing taurangaslowfood@gmail.com.  Ticket sales are limited and close July 27^th (if not sold out prior.)