Comments on: A Taste of Slow: Abbotsford Convent Weekend

By: Abbotsford Blog » Slow Food Festival in the Blogosphere

Abbotsford Blog » Slow Food Festival in the Blogosphere — Fri, 29 Sep 2006 23:20:59 +0000

[...] Because I did such a crap job of reporting the Slow Food’s “A Taste of Slow” festival, I have found some links to people who did a better job, like Esurientes — The Comfort Zone, and Caper Berry Gravy and A Few of My Favourite Things. If you know of any other good wrap-ups, let me know. This guy’s point of view — “largely pretentious yuppy rubbish” — definitely deserves representation: I have this niggly problem with the whole scene, and I think it should come down to this. Slow food should not be expensive; it should be a movement of the celebration of simplicity and home-cooked food. I would have liked to see big crowds of Italian families competing in an Olympics of home cooking where the teams could consist only of nuclear families, and 44 gallon drums spurting fire were provided to each team. Then peppers could be roasted, goats roasted on spits, and octopuses thrashed periodically to soften them up as they were roasted over the fire, basted with bitter herbal liquors. No doubt lawyers have ensured that no such festivity is possible. [...]

By: cin

cin — Thu, 21 Sep 2006 02:37:00 +0000

Susan: I’m rejoicing at the warmer weather

JenJen: The butter is delicious and the slow food event was so much better this year

kamarkamarka: this food was worth dancing for!

Belinda: yes I saw a few SLRs too and was wondering as well…

Andrea: Glad you like the cookies! Enjoy!

By: SugarCocoon

SugarCocoon — Wed, 20 Sep 2006 21:21:00 +0000

Thank you sooo much Cin! I’m so fortunate to be able to taste the yummy Lime Jam Drop Cookies that Cin made! :p

By: Belinda

Belinda — Sat, 16 Sep 2006 15:30:00 +0000

No.. not us in the line! I saw a few cameras thre and I was wondering who was blogging.

By: kamarkamarka

kamarkamarka — Fri, 15 Sep 2006 15:04:00 +0000

Your post makes me feeling hungry and footloose all at the same time!

By: jenjen

jenjen — Wed, 13 Sep 2006 01:05:00 +0000

great photos! what a fun event, i love the look of that butter!

By: Susan in Italy

Susan in Italy — Tue, 12 Sep 2006 12:59:00 +0000

What a glorious event. And you’re so lucky you’re headed into spring!

By: cin

cin — Mon, 11 Sep 2006 22:00:00 +0000

Niki: are you in the queue??? I think that you may have arrived as I was heading over to Abbotsford Convent.

Have a great trip, btw. Looking forward to your OS posts.

By: Niki

Niki — Mon, 11 Sep 2006 16:35:00 +0000

Hehe – I was looking for Belinda and I in the queue of the farm cafe photo!
Am very jealous I didn’t get to try the butter cut like cheese – heck, I love butter!

By: cin

cin — Mon, 11 Sep 2006 02:06:00 +0000

helen: I just made some jam drop cookies with the jam – mmm mmmmmm!

ellie: you should’ve gone down, it was a great day.

belinda: wonder if I spotted you guys at all – I was the one with the SLR! yes, good point about the duck egg blue! i wonder why they are not all blue.