Come out and meet the folks from Slow Food Asheville, Slow Food Asheville Foothills, FEAST, and Appalachian Food StoryBank on August 23 at the Asheville Wine and Food Festival! 
There is a lot to learn and this is a great place to meet the folks and ask questions, volunteer and donate to support these programs.
The 2014 nonprofit organization benefiting from the festival, is Slow Food Asheville’s Appalachian Food Storybank. The Appalachian Food Storybank, a program of Slow Food Asheville, seeks to acknowledge, honor, and archive Appalachian heritage foods and foodways in order to promote the preservation of diverse local knowledges, natural resources, and food biodiversity.The Storybank will be an archive of stories from individuals, families, and communities about southern Appalachian foods – from how they are grown or harvested, to ways of preparing and preserving them, to anecdotes of family or community rituals surrounding food. Our main goal is to provide a way for folks to record their food stories and histories for their children and their grandchildren. In addition, the stories we help collect will be used for educational purposes to highlight the unique lifeways, history, and culture of Appalachia.