Slow Food advocates for a clean and fair food system in over 170 countries. In Canada, we are a volunteer organisation stretching from coast to coast, with members involved in every link of the food chain. Slow Food Edmonton’s Kevin Kossowan was tasked with capturing the diversity of the movement for the short film, What is Slow Food in Canada? In his trademark vibrant style, Kossowan’s camera takes us on a cross-country culinary journey to Vancouver, Vancouver Island, the Okanagan and Similkameen valleys, central Alberta, Montreal, Vallee de la Batiscan, Lanaudiere, Cocagne in New Brunswick, Toronto, Tatamagouche Nova Scotia, and more,
Kossowan says, “it’s become obvious, at least to me, what Slow Food in Canada is. It’s a force, like an oversized kid that doesn’t know its own strength. As an aggregate, the projects the people on the ground are having across the country are dramatically changing the face of good, clean, and fair food… showing me the best of our country through the lens of Slow Food.”
The piece is subtitled in both English and French and celebrates our complex and creative Canadian culinary identity.