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Slow Food - Chicago chapter

Slow Food Chicago celebrates the grand biodiversity of Illinois’s agricultural roots by working to build a stronger connection between small, local farms, the wonderful food they produce, and the consumers who benefit from enjoying delicious, healthy food. We seek an agricultural system providing such food, cultivated with conscientious stewardship of the environment, and which fortifies social ties, invigorates culture, and strengthens local economies. Our Convivium (from the Latin convivere- “to live together”) is part of the larger international Slow Food movement founded in 1986 to counter the frenetic pace of "fast life", the destruction of global biodiversity, the insults of a tasteless, homogenized food supply, and the loss of important culinary culture and tradition. In short, we work for a food system which imparts health to the entire ecosystem and the humans who inhabit it, and that works with nature and society instead of against them. By doing so, we enjoy the benefits of responsible pleasure-- at the dinner table, in the city or countryside, with friends and family.