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 Delectable
Dining
As a couple or
with a group friends, enjoy a delectable five course
meal created with the freshest and most organic
ingredients available.
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theme evening adventures
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Dietary concerns? Please be sure to
contact us as soon as possible if you have any
dietary concerns. We will be happy to
accommodate you but require at least 48 hours
notice.
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The Slow Food movement
The Slow Food movement was founded in 1986 by an Italian
food and wine journalist called Carlo Petrini. Petrini had become haunted
by the spectre of fast food companies eroding Italy's ancient culinary
culture. The opening of McDonald's on the Spanish Steps in Rome was the
final straw. That a fast food giant could open its doors in the heart of
food-obsessed Rome symbolised to Petrini the vulnerability of older values
to brash new industrial methods. Processed fast food was not only changing
the physical landscape through intensive farming, but it was also eroding
a way of life that revolved around producing and eating great food in a
relaxed, sociable way.
It was time to act. Petrini realised that the key to
change lay in motivating people with similar concerns. Strip away the
Euro-talk and it is all about motivating ordinary people to take control
of how they live, work and eat. He knew that the only way to counter the
threat was to tackle the problem internationally and by promoting
gastronomic culture, developing taste education, conserving agricultural
biodiversity and protecting traditional foods that are at risk from
extinction.
Slow Food, whose aim is to "protect the pleasures of the
table from the homogenisation of modern fast food and life," was born.
Today, Carlo Petrini is president of an organisation that spans 100
countries and has around 80,000 members, all of whom are actively involved
in fulfilling the aims of Slow Food. There are more than 1,500 Slow Food
members in the UK.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/food/food_matters/slowfood.shtml#the_slow_food_movement
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"For many food shopping, cooking and eating have
become little more than a rushed chore. It
doesn't need to be that way, say members of the
Slow Food movement, who are keen to bring the
pleasure principle back to shopping and eating
habits." - Rose Valley encourages you to
slow down and enjoy meals together as family or
a group of friends
We support the following local businesses:
- Maltese Groceries
- East Coaster Lobster
- Great Northwest Coffee Company
- Agostino's
- Brent Park Store
- Steeper's Tea
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