1. Café
2. Take-Out Food Shop
3. Green meetings
4. Eco-catering
5. Ecological lunch boxes and accessories
6. Healthy Daycare/School Lunches
7. Cooking classes
8. Nutrition workshops
9. Private consultations
10. Edible green gifts for every season

Good Food | Responsible Food | Ethical Food | Environmental Food | Nutritious Food

Good Food

First and foremost the food we eat must be good food, it must be delicious and satisfying to all our senses. Good food is fresh food. Good food brings back memories of happy times and important people in our lives. Good food looks great, smells appetizing and tastes terrific. No matter how healthy a food may be, if it does not taste delicious we won’t eat it.

The Slow Food Movement

 The Slow Food movement began in the late 1980’s in direct response to the “McDonaldisation” of food all over the world. As they say on their website (www.slowfood.com) their raison d’être is “to counteract fast food and fast life, the disappearance of local food traditions and people’s dwindling interest in the food they eat, where it comes from, how it tastes and how our food choices affect the rest of the world.” It was founded by Italian chefs and gastronomes to provide an alternative to the uniformisation of taste across the world to a common blandness and similarity, best exemplified by McDonald’s, where you can be sure to get the same taste, look and feel whether you are in Shanghai, Mexico City or Paris.

The Slow Food movement’s three criteria for food that qualifies as “slow” are good, clean and fair. They 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. (www.slowfood.com)

At Credible Edibles we heartily endorse these criteria and our G.R.E.E.N. food not only accepts the importance of these criteria but takes them further by adding the importance of nutritious food to the equation. Credible Edibles is an active member of the Slow Food movement through Slow Food Canada (www.slowfood.ca) and our local convivium (www.slowfoodottawagatineau.org).