The History of Slow Food Boulder

Boulder's Slow Food convivium (Latin for "feast") began in 1996 in Charlie Papazian's (founder of The Association of Brewers) tee pee off Plateau Road. Peggy Markel, director of the Italian cooking school La Cucina al Focolare, in Italy, had met—and was inspired by—Carlo Petrini, who founded the International Slow Food Movement in 1986 when a McDonald’s restaurant opened in Rome.

Peggy brought Carlo's vision back to Boulder and planted the seed of the first Slow Food convivium in the United States, collaborating with a small group of like minded friends and culminating with formal membership status in 1997.