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Tuesday, March 21, 2006

Slow Food Dinner

Smith and Latham, St Marys, OntarioThere will be a fundraising dinner this Saturday, March 25 at 6:30 pm at Smith and Latham Restaurant, 139 Queen E, St Marys. The 4-course meal for $115 will feature locally produced game meats and other locally grown items. Funds raised will be used to send local delegates to Turin, Italy this October for Terra Madre the Slow Food sponsored meeting of world food communities.

Slow Food, founded in 1986, is an international organization whose aim is 'to protect the pleasures of the table from the homogenization of modern fast food and life.' It has over 80,000 members in a 100 countries including over 600 members across Canada.