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Let's Talk About Slow Foods
The Slow Foods Movement, a cultural shift towards slowing down life's pace, began with a protest to the opening of a McDonald's in Rome and has become a global push to reintroduce the pleasure of slow-paced dining with family and friends, and to encourage the consumption of local, traditional foods.

In the past, many people had a day of rest but today the world operates 24 hours a day, 7 days a week. This modern obsession with speed has affected almost every dimension of our lives. One obvious casualty of this culture-wide acceleration is our distorted relationship with food. Today's food is not only fast, it's almost instantaneous! Not only does it appear at the drive-thru window on demand, it also arrives in our supermarkets from remote regions of the planet-with just a flash of our credit cards, we can have strawberries in January. These desires for out of season culinary delights, which we satisfy at a whim, drain natural resources and pollute our atmosphere as we try to harvest, process and courier our latest fancy to our tables now.

Things You Can Do

Eat close to the source
Locally and organically grown foods are better for you and the planet, and taste better.

Eat less packaged and more fresh foods
Most additives in processed foods are chemicals that lack nutritional value.

Get to know your local farmers
Buy Organic. Shop at your local farmers market, buy the products that are in season.

Eat lunch sitting down
Prepare a sit-down meal and savour it without watching TV, or reading the newspaper.

RisoWest uses the best quality local and organic ingredients from certified
organic farmers who treasure the natural beauty of their products.  We work
hard to preserve the natural flavour of the produce, meats and cheeses
that you may enjoy the best that mother nature offers.
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We deal with suppliers that produce a variety of products to suit a wide range
of palates.  From BC wild game, wild seafood, organic grain fed beef, organic duck
and poultry, to all locally grown organic produce and herbs.

Try it the way it was meant to be.....Simple, Real.

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