The Slow Food Nation 08 event offers up the large celebration of food in the country and it's happening this coming Labor Day weekend. Looks like it's sold out but perhaps tickets can be had on Craigslist. They also have a fine blog you can check back with to keep with the latest trends in slow food*.
The Taste Pavilions present an unprecedented opportunity to sample the regional foods of America, with products from every state hand-picked by ‘curators’ who are nationally recognized experts in a particular type of food.
*Slow food, founded in 1986, is an international organization whose aim is to protect the pleasures of the table from homogenization of modern fast food and life. Through a variety of initiatives, it promotes gastronomic culture, [develops] taste education, conserves agricultural biodiversity and protects traditional foods at risk of extinction.
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