terra madre

I found out the other day that I’ve been officially sponsored to be a delegate to represent Slow Food Martha’s Vineyard at Terra Madre, the annual meeting of Slow Food International, which takes place in Turin Italy. I’ll be making the trip at the end of October, when things in the fields have quieted enough for me to slip away.

The things we islanders complain about are the very same things that make us stay – the rhythms and routines, the underlying sameness of a world without traffic lights or k-marts, the quiet of the off-season on a rock in the Atlantic. In some ways the world feels more finite here, more knowable. Slow Food makes sense everywhere, but here in particular it resonates.

That being said, in Italy I plan to wear clean clothes, eat fancy food, ask lots of questions, and have one hell of a good time.