WELCOME
Welcome to the Slow & Steady event page! Here you will find event details and information on local food production in Upstate New York's Greater Rochester region. Check back frequently, for updates.
GET INVOLVED
Consider contributing to the event through financial or food sponsorship. Local food items are needed for the event reception. Local food organizations are invited to bring a dish that highlights your product. Your support will be acknowledged in an event pamphlet and on this website. If you are interested in getting involved, send an email to christinboggs[at]gmail.com.
PHOTO GALLERY
Click here to view photographs of local food production by Christin Boggs.
Click here for the Facebook Event Page.
Click here for a list of sustainable food producers in the Greater Rochester Region.
Click here to view the Slow & Steady event blog, which contains updates, along with a collection of recipes made from ingredients grown in the Greater Rochester Region.
Opening Reception:
6 - 9 Friday,
October 01, 2010
Gallery Hours:
9 - 5 M - F
or by appointment
On view through
November 30, 2010
Slow & Steady, a thesis exhibition by Rochester Institute of Technology’s Masters of Fine Arts candidate Christin Boggs, examines the contemporary movement away from mass-produced foods in a return to traditional modes of food production and preparation. Photographs depict scenes from community gardens, Community Supported Agriculture (CSA) farms, and farmers markets within the greater Rochester region.
Awareness of food problems has been widely spread by the recent emergence of food writers and film producers. In the summer of 2009, producer/director Robert Kenner released Food, Inc., co-produced by Eric Schlosser and featuring Michael Pollan, authors of Fast Food Nation and Omnivore’s Dilemma, respectively. The documentary sheds light on a money-hungry system of food production that checks moral responsibility at the door. In response, individuals have sought out a solution that, economically and ethically, is a return to ancestral traditions of growing, preparing, and sharing food within small communities. Slow Food International was established in 1986, when Carlo Petrini protested the opening of a McDonalds in Rome. Locavore, a term coined in 2005, denotes a person who has made a commitment to eat foods produced within a 100-250 mile radius. Grassroots projects such as city and school gardens have become a trend across America in recent years. The movement toward slow food and local eating is catching on quickly. Within the greater Rochester area, many individuals and small communities have rejected convenience foods to responsibly grow, prepare and share sustenance in cooperative groups. Here exists a community of people from all walks of life, with differing belief systems, coming together in pursuit of food beyond Wonderbread and Kraft American Cheese.
CREATIVE SUPPORT
RIT MFA Thesis Committee:
Angela Kelly, Committee Chair
Jessica Lieberman
Alex Miokovic
James Rajotte
RRCDC:
Joni Monroe, AIA
Daniel Cosentino
Printing Assistance:
Eric Kunsman, Booksmart Studio
Writing Assistance:
Karen vanMeenen