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" Slow food : "
Carlo Petrini ; translated by William McCuaig.
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BL
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625581
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Petrini, Carlo,1949-
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Slow food : : the case for taste /\ Carlo Petrini ; translated by William McCuaig.
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Arts & traditions of the table
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xxiv, 155 pages ;; 21 cm.
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0231128444 (alk. paper)
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: 9780231128445 (alk. paper)
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: 0231128452 (pbk.)
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: 9780231128452 (pbk.)
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [147]-148) and index.
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| Contents
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Foreword / Alice Waters -- Series editor's introduction -- Preface -- Preface to the American edition -- Official slow-food manifesto -- Appetite and thought -- Origins ; From new epicures to ecological gastronomes ; International movement of good taste ; Pleasure denied, pleasure rediscovered ; McDonald's versus slow food -- In the beginning, the territory -- Cultivating diversity ; At the center, the producer ; Rebirth of the osteria ; Difficult voyage ; Salone del Gusto -- Educating and learning -- Praise of the senses and the paradox of taste ; In the schools ; From the workshops to the master of food ; University -- Noah principle -- Scenes from a flood ; Ark and the presidia ; Quality, the law, and biotech ; Slow food award for the defense of biodiversity -- Without Nostalgia : acknowledgments -- Appendices -- Slow food Italian presidia ; Slow food international presidia ; Slow food award winners ; Chronology of Arcigola slow food ; Slow food U.S.A. today.
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"In 1986, Carlo Petrini decided to resist the steady march of fast food and all that it represents when he organized a protest against the building of a McDonald's near the Spanish Steps in Rome. Armed with bowls of penne, Petrini and his supporters spawned a phenomenon. Three years later, Petrini founded the International Slow Food Movement, renouncing not only fast food, but the overall pace of the "fast life." Issuing a manifesto, the movement called for the safeguarding of local economies, the preservation of indigenous gastronomic traditions, and the creation of a new kind of ecologically aware consumerism committed to sustainability. On a practical level, it advocates a return to traditional recipes, locally grown foods and wines, and eating as a social event. Today, with a magazine, Web site, and over 75,000 followers organized into local "convivia," or chapters, Slow Food is poised to revolutionize the way Americans shop for their groceries, prepare and consume their meals, and think about food." "Slow Food not only recalls the origins, first steps, and international expansion of the movement from the perspective of its founder, it is also a powerful expression of the organization's goal of engendering social reform through the transformation of our attitudes about food and eating. As Newsweek described it, the Slow Food Movement has now become the basis for an alternative to the American rat race, the inspiration for "a kinder and gentler capitalism.""--BOOK JACKET.
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Gastronomy.
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Slow food movement.
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Food habits.
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641/.01/3
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TX631.P474 2003
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