I am getting excited for Slow Food Nation. Leading up to my departure I am blogging like mad over at the SFN blog, and keeping up with the news there posted by other bloggers. Just over a week ago, Naomi Starkman wrote about the Commonwealth Club in San Francisco’s panel series entitled How We Eat. There was a panel last week featuring Eric Schlosser, Alice Waters and others and I thought you would enjoy seeing it too, so I posted the video above. Here is a quote I enjoyed from Alice Waters:

“When we eat fast food, we are eating the values of that fast food. And its telling us that food should be cheap. And its telling us that advertising confers value, and that standardization is more important than quality, and that kitchen work is drudgery. This is what is being said. We’re eating those ideas, those values. So we have to come to Slow Food values, and we have to understand that food is something very precious, not something that [comes] after the Nike shoes, the cell phones and the cars and whatever else we decide we’re going to spend our money on. It should be way up there [in our values]. And we either pay up front, or we pay [later].”