Slow Food

Have you heard about slow food? To simplify, the opposite of fast food. It is a movement started to preserve traditional food from the threat of fast food which has revolutionised our life style, eating habit and even work culture. Fast food is unstoppable especially for the yuppies and working class with time is an essence for them. However, there are people worried about losing our traditional recipe on food making, the taste and even the memory of good old days. It is also a concern of standardization in food preparation, ingredients and monotonous selection of food will jeopardize our continue pursuing for good and variety of food. Using of same kind of ingredients will also discard the use of other types of vegetation, hence the degradation of biodiversity.

In Malaysia, slow food promotion is not targeting on opposing the fast food, rather than encouraging public to enjoy eating healthily and sustainably. It relates to organic farming as well. By encouraging people to cook with less oil, salt, sugar, vinegar and even to consume sufficiently for the need rather than want. People are also taught about planting for their own consumption by recycling the resources such as composting our household waste and using the seeds again.

The above were the theme for the 3rd Organic Day held on 5Th December 2009. The Organic Day was organised by MBPJ, CETDEM and Section 19 Residents Association to promote organic produce and sustainable urban lifestyle. It is a Local Agenda 21 capacity building program to raise public awareness for sustainable development. The event saw a big turnout and interested the most must be the demonstration on traditional way of making chee cheong fun. It certainly brought back the feel good old days.