Shanghaied Bob: Shanghai Slow Food and birthday lunch

Margot has been working for a company called Sprout. http://www.sproutlifestyle.com/ Their tag line is "growing healthy habits", a wonderful lady, Kimberly Ashton, founded it with her close friend and business partner, Georgia Zhou. Besides selling specialty, highly nutritious foods, doing demos on healthy eating for moms, kids, ayi's, or busy office professionals, holding programs to educate folks on how to improve their holistic health through mind and body, speaking to groups regularly about making the right food choices, and working on opening Sprout's healthy food cafe, she is also the point person for the Slow Food movement in Shanghai. Please view and join by clicking http://www.slowfood-shanghai.org/ . Every month Shanghai Slow Food organizes an event celebrating their passion for food that is "good, clean, and fair". In March it was held at the Celadon, a restaurant on the 26th Floor of the Renaissance Shanghai Zhongshan Park Hotel. Hector Pliego the restaurant manager lined up four chefs to work up a wonderful Slow Food lunch.

Margot invited her cousin Beau, who is doing an internship in Shanghai this Spring, to the lunch, it was also his birthday. The meal was wonderful, one of the best experiences we have had in Shanghai.