On the 16th of August 2016, the president and founder of Slow Food, Carlo Petrini, visited Cape Town to give an address on the Slow Food movement and its initiatives around the globe. As a group of critical food politics and culture studies students and researchers, we attended the event. None of us really knew what to expect. I suspect
that at the back of all our minds was the feeling that “slow food” would be presented as an indulgence of the North or at best, as a Northern initiative that we southerners
should embrace – like so many other initiatives in today’s North-South knowledge flows. But the event proved to be politically and culturally engaging and important.