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Thom Duncan

Join Slow Food Charlotte for dinner March 13, 2008

The first stop on Slow Food Charlotte’s monthly restaurant get together is Intermezzo Pizzeria and Café. Intermezzo is owned and operated by brothers Djordje and Branko Avramovic, natives of Valjevo, Serbia. They came to Charlotte a decade ago and worked for family friends and fellow Serbians Vlado and Sladjana Novakovic at Nova's Bakery, then located in South End. Soon thereafter, they both worked at Cosmos Café downtown. With the opening of Intermezzo, and with Nova's Bakery and the Bosnian Market just up the street, Charlotte has given center to the Balkan community in Plaza Midwood. So much more than a pizzeria, read more here,

Plan to join us next Thursday March 13, 2008 at 7 PM.

Please reply on the website, in the announcements section, if you can make it, so we’ll know how many tables to save.

Intermezzo Pizzeria and Café
1427 E. 10th St.
Charlotte, NC 28205

Tags: cultural, educational, food, restaurant, tour

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Karin & I plan to be at Intermezzo on the 13th.
Sounds great!!
Gary Kemp
Matt and I will be there

-amy
Christine and I will be there.
Matt
I will be there.
Thanks.
Sabrena
So gonna be there!
Gene and I plan to be there.

Great idea -- thanks for planning!

Cindy
Michelle, If you come to Intermezzo, I look forward to a good discussion. If not, we could start by identifying eating places, other than our own kitchens, where we can eat 'GOOD, CLEAN, FAIR & LOCAL' for anything near $100/couple.
Gary, I have a gardening class until 8:30 tonight. If you can stick around till at least 9, I would love to engage in a discussion. I noticed you really enjoy wine. Maybe we can talk over a drink. Thanks.
I am disappointed by Slow Food Charlotte's choice for this meeting. Intermezzo is an interesting restaurant nevertheless, it does not appear to me that they maintain the same principles Slow Food Charlotte is aiming to communicate to our community. I understand that this is an ethnic tour however, I find it more fitting for a slow food meeting to take place in a restaurant that holds the same ideals. If Slow Food Charlotte is dedicated to having a meeting at this restaurant or others like it, I think it is the responibility of those in attendance to communicate to the owners the importance of supporting local agriculture and slow foods. If we are attempting to change the culinary landscape in Charlotte we should be more vigilant in the businesses we choose to support financially. I am aware that these brothers are contributing to a diverse atmosphere and that is important still, I believe the farmers who contribute to the diversity of our table and soil should be rewarded as well.
Our philosophy

We believe that everyone has a fundamental right to pleasure and consequently the responsibility to protect the heritage of food, tradition and culture that make this pleasure possible. Our movement is founded upon this concept of eco-gastronomy – a recognition of the strong connections between plate and planet. Slow Food is good, clean and fair food. We believe that the food we eat should taste good; that it should be produced in a clean way that does not harm the environment, animal welfare or our health; and that food producers should receive fair compensation for their work. We consider ourselves co-producers, not consumers, because by being informed about how our food is produced and actively supporting those who produce it, we become a part of and a partner in the production process.
I would like everyone to read the philosophy that Slow Food was founded upon. Food should be GOOD, CLEAN and FAIR. Local is what we stand for. So remember to Support the Restaurants that Support YOUR LOCAL FARMERS. They grow your food. Because without you we all will go away. If we want a Ethnic dining club lets start one. I'm all for it. But lets not have it under the Slow Food banner if they don't practice the philosophy of GOOD, CLEAN, FAIR & LOCAL.
I hope Thom's messages smoothes the road ahead. None of this was done with malice or misappropriation in mind. You can read the Slow Food charter but there is no lawyer-ease that makes a pure definitive definition to each key point.

Saving culture is important, supporting farmers is important, having good clean fair food, is important. Slow Food started because Carlos' saw McD's moving in and blotting out the culture.. he didn't first see it as the farmer, he saw it as his history, his tradition, was being eradicated. The rest of the messages is equally important but it must be balanced.

If we come out of Intermezzo tonight with their ear bent and looking for local, then I feel we have made a stride.

As to the Slow banner, every major city has a Slow food restaurant book. When we are in a city with those roadmaps I visit those establishments. The directory for NYC is huge. Don't kid yourself that every one of those restaurants buy local for their menus, and who is policing them week to week to maintain it. It's the main sticking point to why I haven't condoned making a list of our own. I think, and I'd be happy to climb the SF phone ladder to find out, but I think many of those restaurants were chosen because of their cultural identities they are promoting equal to how they are sourcing their foods.

Slow Food is about a lot of things. At each link in the chain we will attempt to work on providing information and resources to people, establishments, and groups that are looking to drive further into a cultural and locavore mentality.

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