Don Lindgren sees the Annual Slow Food Portland Writers’ Night as a vehicle to free people to truly enjoy food: “I’d say that there are some, even many, people these days that define themselves by what they don’t eat, rather than what they want to eat.”
This self-imposed restraint has served as an impetus for Lindgren to present a range of food-related interests and events to the community, both as a retailer and as part of Slow Food Portland. Perhaps he takes his cues from Rabelais himself, who bravely egged his readers on, encouraging them “to shake off and break that bond of servitude wherein they are so tyrannously enslaved; for it is agreeable with the nature of man to long after things forbidden and to desire what is denied us.”
SLOW FOOD PORTLAND WRITERS’ NIGHT | 6:30 pm January 24 | at SPACE Gallery, 538 Congress St, Portland | $25 | 207.774.1044 | space538.org
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