How Slow Food Are You?
Do you ever wonder if your obsession with local, seasonal foods makes you a conscientious consumer or just a starry-eyed elitist?
A friend and fellow Slow Food member came up with a quick quiz to help you tell the difference.
Malice Waters lives and writes in San Francisco.
How Slow Food are you? A quiz.
By Malice Waters
The foods in my kitchen come from within:
1) 7,000 miles
2) 1,500 miles
3) 150 miles
4) 50 miles
Bottled water is:
1) A Necessity
2) An Option
3) A Triumph of Fearmongering Marketers
4) An Evil Plot by Monsanto
If I had to choose between local and organic, I would:
1) Choose Local
2) Choose Organic
3) Go Hungry
4) Reserve a table at Quince
At the farmers’ market, I fill my Prius beyond capacity. Which of these purchases do I jettison?
1) Farmstead Goat Cheese
2) Artisan Salumi
3) Fiddlehead Ferns
4) None. I hail a hybrid cab and load it up.
John Mackey of Whole Foods is:
1) A Friend to Small Farmers
2) A Savvy Businessman
3) A Greenwasher
4) All of the Above
A new cabinet-level agriculture post should go to:
1) Sarah Palin
2) Mario Batali
3) Michael Pollan
4) Marion Nestle
A “Bourbon Red” is:
1) An Energy Drink
2) A New Cocktail
3) A Heritage Turkey
4) An Organic Zinfandel
A “locavore” is:
1) A Type of Rodent
2) A Myopic Elitist
3) A Burrowing Insect
4) A Person Who Favors Locally Produced Foods
“Biodynamic” is:
1) A Biotech Startup
2) Marketing Hooey
3) An Evil Plot by Cargill
4) Cosmic Agriculture
“CSA” stands for:
1) Can’t Stand Asparagus
2) Caring, Sturdy Aardvark
3) Community-Supported Agriculture
4) Carrot Succulence Always
I throw a potluck party and a friend brings fajitas made with feedlot beef. My response is:
1) Say “thank you” and enjoy the fajitas.
2) Say “thank you” and then forget to serve the fajitas.
3) Say “thank you” but resolve to drop said friend.
4) Call PETA.
An $80 dollar-a-plate al fresco dinner at a local farm sounds:
1) Dubious
2) Great, if the Farmer Gets the Proceeds
3) Like an Evil Plot by Archer Daniels Midland
4) Like My Wedding Reception
Tally your score
12–20: See you at Wal-Mart.
21–26: Read Fast Food Nation and then try again.
27–35: Read Food Rules and then try again.
36 and up: Congratulations. You may now join Slow Food.
How Slow Food are you?
I scored 33 🙂
Beat ya – scored 37 🙂
Awesome…don’t you mean Alice Waters?
The author preferred to use a pen name, so we made up Malice Waters as a joke.