Slow Food Tucson

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The Slow Food Movement In response to the frenzied opening of a McDonald's in Rome's historic Piazza di Spagna, journalist Carlo Petrini and friends founded the Slow Food movement in 1986. They had a strong belief in preserving local cuisine by using local ingredients--in restaurants and home kitchens. This touched such an international nerve, that the movement has grown to over 80,000 members in 100 countries.

Slow Food Tucson is affiliated with Slow Food USA, which supports Slow Food International. The Slow Food Tucson chapter was founded in 1999 and has been going strong ever since. The Tucson region has the luxury of many organic farms in and around our city, raising produce, meats and chickens, along with superb chefs and residents that support the Slow Food concept.

We offer an event each month including food demonstrations and dinners where chefs discuss the meal's ingredients, history and evolution. Activities in the past have included: cooking a Thai meal; making pizza in a woodburning oven; recreating a 2,000 year old funeral feast of legendary King Midas; sampling wine in Sonoita and from the Piemonte region of Italy. We have also eaten Hungarian goulash made from grassfed cattle, learned to make tamales for a Christmas celebration and enjoyed a full sampling of chocolates for Valentine’s Day.

Why Join Tucson Slow Food?
We are so much more than a dining club and want to support and celebrate local farmers and chefs with their efforts. While most of our events are also open to the public, your membership affords you a discounted price for most events and entry to "Members only events."

Local members include chefs, restaurant owners, business owners, writers, and people interested in cooking, eating, sampling and experiencing the tastes and flavors of the region! All are curious and enjoy learning about the origins of a dish, combining ingredients and meeting like-minded Tucsonans.

We’re always looking for new ideas so if you have suggestions, please contact us: slowfoodtucson@yahoo.com and help celebrate local growers and producers, artisanal products and heirloom seeds and vegetables as well as culinary traditions both local and international. Then, we’ll get together, lift a glass of wine in a toast and enjoy each other’s company, with good food and drink!

Past Events
To see a sample of our past events, click here.

Contact Information - slowfoodtucson@yahoo.com

Convivium Leader - Judith Dvorak
Vice President - Don Luria
Treasurer - Nancy Lutz
Secretary - Germaine Juneau
Past President - Barry Infuso