Board Members
Leader
Martha Davis Kipcak
Co-Leader
David Swanson
Treasurer
Jill Weinshel
Julie Edell-Berlin
Jennifer Casey
Karen Siegel
Rebecca Wilcke
Dave Kozlowski
Slow Food International currently has over 83,000 members in 850 convivia in more than 100 countries on five continents. Slow Food USA has 15,000 members and almost 200 convivia in 47 states! We currently have 10 Slow Food on Campus convivia and we are aiming to open at least 10 more in 2008.
We are a non-profit, eco-gastronomic movement founded in 1989 by Carlo Petrini of Bra, Italy. Slow Food strives to preserve food traditions worldwide, encouraging a fresh connection with the food we eat, where it comes from and how it is produced.
Slow Food USA opened its national office in 2000 to defend and celebrate the food traditions of North America. Embracing a rediscovery of America's authentic culinary traditions, Slow Food USA works to stave off the industrialization of our food supply and the rapid loss of our precious farmland.
Slow Food Wisconsin Southeast (WiSE) encompasses the metro-Milwaukee area and its surrounding counties. Our chapter (called a convivium) joins the national organization of Slow Food in advocating the support of family farms and cooperatives, promotion of locally grown food, support for school gardens, conservation of regional culinary traditions and the maintenance of biodiversity.We are committed to working with other groups to achieve these goals.
Slow Food Wisconsin Southeast was formed in 2003 as the second convivium in the state of Wisconsin. Please visit our sister convivium, Slow Food Madison.
To learn more about the largest food movement on the globe, visit Slow Food International and Slow Food USA.