About Us

• Slow Food Calgary Slow Food began as a grassroots response to the expanding ‘fast food’ industry in Europe. In 1989, delegates from fifteen countries signed the manifesto that created the Slow Food movement. In 1998, The Wall Street Journal called the Slow Food movement the ‘Greenpeace of Gastronomy’. Slow Food seeks to protect cuisines, regional dishes, ingredients, and small purveyors from the deluge of industrialization and to restore pleasures to our fast-paced and hectic lives.
• Our Mandate  Making connections between consumers, chefs, food processors and producers of sustainable agricultural products. Building public awareness of local farmers’ products and acknowledging the restaurants and processors who support them.

Planning Committee

dee Hobsbawn-Smith, President

Eric Giesbrecht, Communications

Beth Lipsett, Secretary

Janet Henderson, Agricultural Program Development & Farm Community Outreach

Jared Kalancha, Treasurer

Karen Anderson, Events & Memberships

Gail Norton

Catharine Hortsing, Taste Education

Tonya Lailey, Web Development

Sal Howell, on maternity leave

Kris Vester, Terra Madre Liason

SAIT: Simon Dunn, Maxwell Lawrence, Andrew Hewson

SAIT Students: Stephanie Kolk, Kate Campbell