Dave Epstein: Hi! I’m Dave Epstein, I’m here today with John Lee on Growing Wisdom and we’re are talking slow, should I slow down?
John Lee: Yes. We should all slow down.
Dave Epstein: We should all slow down, right.
John Lee: Absolutely, we should all slow down. Smell the roses, as they say. Yeah, slow food is a relatively new food movement and it is exactly that. It is about slowing down and taking your time, and tasting the food that you eat and knowing it and understanding or appreciating it. It’s about eating locally, and supporting local producers, that grow the food, that keeps you and your family healthy and well.
Dave Epstein: When does this movement started?
John Lee: The movement started about 20 years ago in Italy. It was started by a gentleman named Carlo Petrini, who realized that when McDonald’s came to Rome, it was a time for a change. There was time to slow down, and his sense was, Italy was rapidly losing its food culture and he wanted to re assert, re-value the names that were attach to a lot of the food that we all grew up with. What we know as Roquefort cheese, for example, wasn’t necessarily from Roquefort. We are happy to by Greer that comes from Wisconsin or New York, or anywhere. But greer that comes from the greer region of France has a very specific taste, and we sort of forgotten what it is.
Dave Epstein: So we got some local, slow food. We want to slow down, should we try some of these?
John Lee: Absolutely. We have a local bread here. We got two goat cheeses here and believe it or not, they’re going to taste quite different.
Dave Epstein: The taste of this particular goat cheese, which comes from Maine, is going to taste very different from a goat cheese that comes from, say, from Vermont or other places.
John Lee: Yeah, absolutely. Because the flavor of the cheese is base on what the goats are eating. And if you have a goat that’s fed on grasses strictly, it will taste better than a goat that fed on herbs or broad leaf green.
Dave Epstein: So John, I want to thank you very much, not only for the cheese, the bread and the apple, for the company, and for slowing us down a little bit here in Growing Wisdom, and you can watch all of our video, peruse through them, take your time, watch as many as you can here at GrowingWisdom.com.
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