"Twenty five years ago I started Greens restaurant in San Francisco,
then left to live in Rome, where I began writing on food and cooking. I
departed Rome just as the Slow Food movement took root there in 1986,
and I didn't become formally involved for another ten years. (Among other
things, I now run Slow Foods Santa Fe chapter). But I was informally
supporting Slow Food concepts all along. My deepest sympathies have
always been with the landscape of food and farming, and that led me to
join the Santa Fe farmers market, near my new American home, as a
manager and board member. I spent five years visiting markets and
farmers across the country as I researched my 2002 book Local Flavors.
At Terra Madre I reconnected with many of those same food producers and
farmers." Deborah Madison shares more in this inspiring piece.
