The Slow Food Experience

A restaurant in Buenos Aires  brought to our attention by Treehugger got us thinking about the Slow Food movement, the restaurant, Kensho is an example of this.   Restaurants  around the world have been adapting their menus and experiences in order to embrace this growing trend. The slow food  may have started on the Spanish steps in Rome but the movement has gone global.

According to the official Slow Food website:

It was founded in 1989 to counteract fast food and fast life, the disappearance of local food traditions and people’s dwindling interest in the food they eat, where it comes from, how it tastes and how our food choices affect the rest of the world.  Today, we have over 80,000 members all over the world.

Treehugger’s description of the restaurant not only wet our appetite when describing the menu, but highlights the innovative menu and “food in four stages” experience.  Founders Cabrera and Martin Rodriguez call the menu “food in four stages”.

First consists of a plate with three different creams to spread on the homemade bread that includes carrots-mayonnaise, humus, and lentil-pâté.

Second is gazpacho with fungus ceviche; and third varies with the time of the year, but has included quinoa tortilla with goat cheese and citrus fruits, and pumpkin curry. Dessert also varies, and includes seasonal fruits with homemade ice cream (the one we tasted was a fruit-salad with coconut ice cream and hot chocolate).

All this is of course prepared minutes before it’s served with fresh ingredients bought in local markets, and can be accompanied with organic wine, three classes of artisan beer or an exquisite homemade lemonade flavoured with ginger and basil.

Treehugger: Eat Green in Buenos Aires Part II: Kensho, an Indoor, Slow Experience

- Contributed by Amy Daroukakis