Slow food fast Portland Maine

Jessica Rhys writes in this week's dead tree version of The Phoenix (sorry, no link) about the Slow Food fest, Terra Madre, and waxes poetic about not so fast food in Turin and how Maine's way ahead of the curve when it comes to local, organic yadayas.

The article doesn't mention that she's part of the Maine School Garden Network or that Terra Madre 2008 was held last month. There's little about the local chapter or other participants from Maine, who, according to Slow Food, included: Amanda Beal, Mary and John Belding, Ben Hasty, Scott Johnson, Craig Lapine, Dana Morse, Leslie Oster, and Bob Smith.

[Updated 11/24] Rhys also shies away from the double bind of promoting a political agenda through consumption. This year, Carlos Petrini said:

"People who sniff a cheese and talk about how it has the most wonderful aroma of horse sweat. Think how incredibly boring we would be if we were still just a gastronomic society."