Slow Food

This Thursday the Runa interns prepared a “slow food” dinner. The idea behind slow food is that you collect every ingredient from its original point source so that you really “know” your meal in its entirety. In the case of this dinner, we managed to collect some ingredients ourselves (platanos and live chickens) while we ended up buying things like dried cacao seeds and vegetables. On Wednesday, I milked a cow and went night fishing with a few técnicos from fundacion Runa. I was struck by how easy it was to get the food from its original source. In the US, I’d have to jump through quite a few hoops to milk a cow and then buy the raw milk. But here, buying locally is what makes sense financially. If only it were the case back home!