Slow Food Madison, one of the oldest Slow Food Chapters in the country, held its annual meeting on May 20. Jeanne Carpenter of Cheese Underground reflects on what Slow Food truly means and how it has changed her life.

As a family, we were on our way to realizing what good food was, but we didn't yet have the resources to eat it full-time. Today, when I open my fridge and see an entire drawer of artisan cheeses made by hand from that same Driftless Region of which Piper remembers, I appreciate the good, clean and fair food I now enjoy on a regular basis.

Read the full blog post here.