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"Udderly Delicious!" A Slow Food Upstate taste education sponsored event for Kids

September 11, 2010

The Children's Museum of the Upstate, 300 College Street Greenville, SC 29601 (map)

Cost: included with museum admission p: 864.233.7755 f: 864.233.7790 e: info@tcmgreenvillesc.org

11:00 a m

Join the Happy Cow family at The Children's Museum of the Upstate for a fun day of dairy discovery.

Applicable Ages for Event: target is 6+, but this is not a requirement

What do cheese, milk, ice cream, and yogurt have in common? They all start with cows. In this program sponsored by Slow Food Upstate featuring Happy Cow Creamery, kids will learn about and taste a variety of dairy products that come from cows. Kids will make their own ice cream using milk from happy cows.

1pm: Make and taste your own goat cheese using milk from the goats at Patient Wait Farm. Learn about the nutritional benefits of goat’s milk and compare the taste to cow dairy products.

For more information, please contact Marnie Record at mrecord_17@yahoo.com

See our Calendar for other upcoming events.

Slow Food Upstate is the local convivium of Slow Food USA.

Upstate South Carolina includes: Greenville, Spartanburg, Anderson, Pickens, Cherokee, Oconee, Union, Laurens, Greenwood and Abbeville.

Everyone is welcome to receive our local newsletter, and members enjoy the benefits of the National and International Slow Food Movement. Join us as a member. Sign up to receive our local newsletter.

Mission and Special Emphases

The Slow Food Movement began with a protest against the opening of a fast food restaurant in Piazza di Spagna, Rome, which sparked the creation of the Slow Food organization. Slow Food is a non-profit, eco-gastronomic member-supported international organization that was founded in 1989 to counteract fast food and fast life, the disappearance of local food traditions and people’s dwindling interest in the food they eat, where it comes from, how it tastes and how our food choices affect the rest of the world. Slow Food Upstate based in Greenville, South Carolina, is a local convivium, part of the larger international Slow Food organization.

"Slow Food USA envisions a future food system that is based on the principles of high quality and taste, environmental sustainability, and social justice-in essence, a food system that is good, clean and fair. We seek to catalyze a broad cultural shift away from the destructive effects of an industrial food system and fast life; toward the regenerative cultural, social and economic benefits of a sustainable food system, regional food traditions, the pleasures of the table and a slower and more harmonious rhythm of life."

Mission Statement, Slow Food USA

Slow Food Upstate is the local convivium of Slow Food USA.

Upstate South Carolina includes: Greenville, Spartanburg, Anderson, Pickens, Cherokee, Oconee, Union, Laurens, Greenwood and Abbeville.

Under the general mission of Slow Food USA, we created a three-fold mission for Slow Food Upstate, with three special emphases areas.

Mission

1) Educational Outreach - Raising awareness of issues and practices related to "good, fair, and clean" food. Providing opportunities for the development of gustatory discernment (tasting good things, making good food choices). Providing practical support and information that empowers people to be responsible and enthusiastic co-producers of the food they consume.

2) Educational "Inreach" and Community Building for those already knowledgeable about and living a slow lifestyle and engaged with slow food production professionally or at home.

3) Convivium - Sharing (eating, cooking, etc.), honoring, celebrating and enjoying together the bounty of slow food.

Special Emphases:

1) Local traditions and production that are slow. By "local" we mean our immediate region (Upstate/Piedmont) but also our State and the south; however we give special pride-of-place to the Upstate. While we intend to honor traditions associated with the dominant historical culture, we also want to honor traditions of minority and immigrant cultures that are a part of our community.

2) Eating and the well-being of the person, environment , and community in the context of a slow lifestyle and outlook on life. While not promoting any one type of diet, we welcome those who follow a dietary program that fits with the Slow Food emphasis on "good, clean and fair" food. We want to encourage and model eating practices that balance health, justice and enjoyment.

3) Accessibility. Our programming should be available and affordable to those seriously interested in knowing about and practicing good, clean, and fair eating. We want to model honoring quality with a fair price in a culture that thinks cheaply about food. We also want to avoid the confusion of conspicuous consumption with good eating.

Membership

Membership is open to anyone. Join us today!
http://www.slowfoodusa.org/

Welcome

Upcoming Events

Walhalla Farmers Market

Friday, Aug 27 at 7:00 am

Clemson Farmers' Market

Friday, Aug 27 at 4:00 pm

Belton Farmers Market

Saturday, Aug 28 at 6:00 am

Union Farmers Market

Saturday, Aug 28 at 6:00 am

News

We are all frustrated and horrified by the ongoing oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico. In the last FOOD CHAIN, Slow Food USA offered a few avenues for giving support both financial and otherwise.

•Donate: Oxfam, Gulf Aid, Gulf Coast Fund and the Gulf Restoration Network

•Volunteer: Sierra Club is hosting clean-ups

Upstate Locally Grown

www.upstatesc.locallygrown.net

Need a volunteer support staff; people to pack and transport the orders to different drop-off sites.

Slow Food Upstate is featured on One Cause, a web site that allows you to shop on line and your selected merchants will contribute a percentage of the sale to Slow Food Upstate. Go to www.onecause.com and become a member, then select Slow Food Upstate as your Cause to support. Add the One Cause browser tab to your computer and select your merchants through the One Cause web site. One Cause will then send Slow Food Upstate the contributions. You must however, access the merchant through the One Cause web site to participate.

These contributions will help further the Slow Food Upstate missions in our area.

The South Carolina General Assembly will be voting on a bill that would create the ability for farms to have signs posted. This would aid farmers in SC very much, so please voice your opinion to your State Representative.

More information:

http://www.scstatehouse.gov/sess118_2009-2010/prever/4904_20100428.htm

Launch of Edible Upcountry Magazine

Published quarterly with the seasons, edible Upcountry focuses on local, sustainable food sources and the people who work the land to bring this bounty to our tables in the Upstate region of South Carolina.

With beautiful photography and thoughtful content, the magazine and website will help us to savor and appreciate our region's food culture. An indispensable guide for people who are passionate about food, edible Upcountry will be a feast for the eyes, the intellect and the palate.