Ariel Roblin: Sacramento's culinary prowess gets recognized with Terra Madre Americas Festival

This weekend, Visit Sacramento hosted the inaugural Terra Madre Americas. Twenty years ago, the first Terra Madre festival took place in Turin, Italy, and was attended by 5,000 people. It now attracts more than 350,000 visitors to hundreds of exhibits from all over the world, communicating the importance of biodiversity, education, and advocacy for slow food. This resulted in Turin becoming the Capital City of food in Italy. The mission of the slow food movement is to improve the quality of food for the health of the planet and humanity. Bonus — it's also delicious! We are the Farm-to-Fork capital after all, so it's fitting that one of the biggest festivals in the world has recognized our culinary prowess as well. This is huge, and we should all be incredibly proud to beat out several cities for this international event. But when you think about it, it's past time we took the stage on the International Culinary scene since we are home to one of the most important food production areas in the world. Partnering to make this as big as it can be is a journey for us all to be a part of and one KCRA/ MY58 is proud to support. This year is just the seed of something special. And there's no place like Sacramento for this festival to grow and blossom in years to come.Ariel Roblin is the president and general manager of KCRA 3 and My58. See more of her editorials here.