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Macedonian TribuneApril 7, 2011Vol. 85 No. 3407MPO Convention 2011SeeGeorgieffon page 7SeeDelcheffon page 7Children at Zivko Cingo School are proud of their new world globe.You may think Slow Food involves a crock-pot, but it doesn’t. It’s a lot more than that.Slow Food is a movement to preserve and educate the world about indigenous foods that have survived the ages. Specifi cally, Slow Food International is an educational organization that promotes the preservation of heirloom culinary and agricultural products across the globe in a sustainable and just manner.As Grand Banquet speaker, Stephanie Georgieff will improve our knowledge of how each of us helps sustain this vital element of our Macedonian culture, both at home and abroad. Using a PowerPoint presentation, she will illustrate how people in Macedonia are using age-old family recipes and techniques to create a cottage industry open to the world.Stephanie is the founding president of Slow Food Redlands (Calif.) and was an educator dele-gate for Slow Food International Terra Madre in Turin, Italy. (See February 2011 issue of the MACEDONIAN TRIBUNE).Today, she is the host of Real Food Empire, a weekly radio talk show about food and nutrition on KCAA, an MSNBC radio affi liate in San Bernardino, Calif. She is traveling to Macedonia this month to work with Slow Food producers.“Food bonds the generations,” she says, reminiscing about how she learned to bake banitsa (aka zelnick), and prepare sarme (cabbage rolls) and tolchene (pepper-eggplant relish) from her baba, the late Dora Georgieff, or how she learned to make all kinds of food with her aunt and uncle Zena and the late Austin Mircheff.“My sweet memories are of my family. Cooking together is a really beautiful tradition,” says the daughter of Joyce and Dr. George Georgieff, Santa Ana, Calif., both of whom are active in a myriad of activities, including the MPO. “Cooking also is a very pow-erful force globally,” Stephanie says. “It helps solve world problems and helps us re-think how we feed ourselves. Sixty percent of food costs go to agriculture (fuel & chemicals) and food production. Small countries without sustainable The Gotse Delcheff Foundation of the MPO donated $3000 to the Macedonian Schools Project, which has been active in the Ohrid-Struga area or several years. The schools are multi-cultural, offering classes in several languages.Coordinating with schools and youth organizations in Macedonia since 2004, the project has installed 13 chalkboards and provided maps, globes, science equipment, fl ashcards, books, pens, computer equipment, fi rst aid equipment and sports equipment while building friendly relations with Americans.“We plan to extend our efforts to assist in providing classroom-to-classroom opportunities between Macedonian and American teachers and students,” says Tom Lineham, Vancouver, Wash., project coordinator, who visits Macedonia each year and actively monitors the purchase and deployment of each donation.Dr. Leon Speroff, Portland, Ore., Evelyn Dinu, Detroit, and James Stoynoff, Chicago, lead the Gotse Delcheff foundation. It was developed through the generous donations of these three and many MPO members.Stephanie Georgieff is Grand Banquet speakerMPO’s Gotse Delcheff fund gives $3000Stephanie GeorgieffEARLY, Early Bird ticket pricesFriday Golf OutingRegister for free hotel roomTaxi service to/from airports Catch the latestMPO CONVENTION NEWSON PAGE 3Plank-cooked fi shLake Dorjan fi shSlow cooked ManjaKashkavalSheep shearingThumbs KashkavalGoat cheese ballsMacedonia’s Slow Food productsAnd more...Int’l CourtDeliberatesThe Hague, Netherlands – The International Court of Justice is deliberating testimony heard in late March in Macedonia’s case against Greece for violating terms of the 1995 Interim Accord.The Court’s judgment will be rendered at a public sitting, the date of which will be announced. The decision could ultimately decide Macedonia’s name as well as its membership in the EU and NATO.Verbatim records of the hearings are available at www.icj-cij.org