Slow Food Chicago seeks to create dramatic and lasting change in our local food system to ensure equity, sustainability and pleasure in the food we eat.

Slow Food is an educational non-profit with the goal of creating a world in which everyone can enjoy food that is good, clean and fair. Slow Food represents a growing movement of 18,000 members nationally, including over 3,000 supporters in the Chicago area. We seek fulfillment of our mission by: 1) Connecting eaters to the Chicago region’s biodiverse and sustainable producers through organizational partnerships, publications, and social events. 2) Increasing public awareness around the economic, environmental, political, and cultural impact of our eating through education, garden projects, and social events.

Slow Food Chicago is proud to announce our 2009 Eat-In!

The Eat-In will be a fun, inspiring rally in one of Chicago’s greatest public spaces. In conjunction with Slow Food USA, we’ve started a national campaign to get REAL FOOD into schools through the reauthorization of the Child Nutrition Act. We’ll be featuring famous speakers, city and state legislators, local farmers & purveyors, and partner organization.

Join us on Wed. August 26th at Daley Plaza for the free Eat-In to learn about and show your support  for a better Child Nutrition Act. Bring your own lunch or visit one of our participating restaurants to pick up your Slow lunch (to be announced) and share with us at the table.

Then on September 7th host your own Eat-In, with your children, your community, and the rest of the nation.

Together, we can:

• Invest in our children’s health - Give schools just one dollar more per day for each child’s lunch.
• Protect against foods that put children at risk - Establish strong standards for all food sold at school, including food from vending machines and school fast food.
• Teach children healthy habits for life - Fund grants for innovative Farm to School programs and school gardens
• Give schools the incentives to buy local - Establish financial incentives that encourage schools to buy food from local farms for all child nutrition programs.
• Create green jobs with a school lunch corps. - Train underemployed Americans to be the teachers, farmers, cooks, and administrators our school cafeterias need.

Learn more about what we want to see & reasons to act now!

Come to the table and let’s all get real food into school lunches.

Contact your legislator & sign the petition.

How can I help?
What is an Eat-In?

Read more about Slow Food Chicago’s Dawes School Garden of Eatin’
Read more from the White House Garden