DON'T EAT AND RUN.

People may intend to enjoy them more often, but in truth, most of them reserve special recipes and big family meals for the holiday season. Now a small local group of devoted foodies hopes to change these ways. Early this year, Indianapolis (Indy) got its own chapter of Slow Food, a nonprofit educational organization founded in Europe in the 1980's. Created in reaction to the onslaught of golden arches springing up in European cities, the group seeks to combat fast-food culture and the solitary meals and loss of culinary traditions it represents. Indy's Slow Food chapter is one of more than 100 groups, called "convivia," in the United States.