Slow Food Aylsham is part of the international Slow Food movement. Founded in 2004 with membership open to everyone in Aylsham, its surrounding area and beyond, it promotes local food, its producers and associated businesses, particularly through the Aylsham Food Festival which it has organised every Autumn since its inception.
We believe that food is more than fuel to keep us going but is something to be savoured. Fast food may be all very well when you are unavoidably in a hurry, but when time allows, a good meal can be a real treat, an enjoyable event. And it doesn’t have to be a gastronomic feast: good fresh food is enjoyable whether it cost £1 or £20!
In a rural area such as ours, though, food is more than just good eating. Its producers are part of our community, a major component of what makes it such an enviable place to live.
Slow Food Aylsham contributes in no small way to Aylsham’s quality of life.
There is also Slow Food group based in Norwich and its website is at www.slowfoodnorwich.org.uk/
Photo: Sam Meyer