Welcome to our website - we hope you join our Catskill Mountain chapter and share our passion for local food.
Plans for 2009.
Our chapter leaders are planning on each hosting a pot-luck meal during the May - October months, featuring different local products or methods of preserving foods. These events will have an educational segment to start off followed by good food and conversation. There will be a small charge to chapter members and a little more for non-members - so think about joining today.
Pure Catskills Buy Local Campaign |
Our Slow Food Catskills chapter is a member of the Pure Catskills Pure Catskills Buy Local Campaign. We encourage you to use their annual Buy Local guide brochure or website to find great local sourcing for all your food needs.
We also encourage you to join Slow Food member Lucky Dog Farm's CSA - it runs 24 weeks from early June through October. Visit their website for more details. |
We will be posting a few seasonal recipes to hopefully inspire you to cook new meals using locally raised food. Stay tuned!!
To contact the Catskills convivium, please e-mail us. To reduce spam we've broken apart our email address. First is slow food
cats (but all combined with no spaces) and after the AT symbol type in gmail which is a dot com.
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. Slow Food educates communities about
their local and traditional foods, encourages local agricultural biodiversity and protects traditional foods
at risk of extinction. Slow Food U.S.A. oversees Slow Food activities in North America, including the support
and promotion of the activities of 140 local chapters, each called a convivium. Each convivium
advocates sustainability and bio-diversity through educational events and public outreach that promote
the appreciation and consumption of seasonal and local foods and the support of those who produce them.
To join, log on to the national website at www.slowfoodusa.org .
Please designate the Catskills as your primary convivium. If you are currently a member and
would like to switch to the Catskills convivium, please contact the US national office at 718.260.8000 or
email info AT slowfoodusa.org.
Our Food History
The Catskills has a classic food history of many cold, woodland climates. Sitting from 1500 to 2500 feet above sea level,
altitude has given us a shorter growing season. Much of the food culture is based on small
livestock, wild foraged foods, and root vegetables and the methods used to preserve them over the long winters. Our moutain farms are now home to new breeds of animals and plants that survive well in our climate. It is our goal to educate those that live here about the bounty of the Catskills and to support food that is fair, good and clean.
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