Slow Food : the case for taste /
Petrini, Carlo, 1949-
Slow Food : the case for taste / Carlo Petrini ; translated by William McCuaig. - xxiv, 155 pages ; 21 cm. - Arts & traditions of the table . - Arts and traditions of the table. .
Includes bibliographical references (pages 147-148) and index.
Foreword / The Official Slow Food Manifesto -- Appetite and Thought -- The Origins -- From "New Epicures" to Ecological Gastronomes -- An 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 -- The Rebirth of the Osteria -- The Difficult Voyage -- The Salone del Gusto -- Educating and Learning -- The Praise of the Senses and the Paradox of Taste -- In the Schools -- From the Workshops to the Master of Food -- The University -- The Noah Principle -- Scenes from a Flood -- The Ark and the Presidia -- Quality, the Law, and Biotech -- The Slow Food Award for the Defense of Biodiversity -- Without Nostalgia: Acknowledgments -- The Slow Food Italian Presidia -- The Slow Food International Presidia -- Slow Food Award Winners -- A Chronology of Arcigola Slow Food -- Slow Food U.S.A. Today. Alice Waters -- 1. 2. 3. 4. App. App. App. App. App.
"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.
0231128444 9780231128445
2002191189
Slow Food (Organization)
Gastronomy
Food habits.
TX631 / .P474 2003
641.013
Slow Food : the case for taste / Carlo Petrini ; translated by William McCuaig. - xxiv, 155 pages ; 21 cm. - Arts & traditions of the table . - Arts and traditions of the table. .
Includes bibliographical references (pages 147-148) and index.
Foreword / The Official Slow Food Manifesto -- Appetite and Thought -- The Origins -- From "New Epicures" to Ecological Gastronomes -- An 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 -- The Rebirth of the Osteria -- The Difficult Voyage -- The Salone del Gusto -- Educating and Learning -- The Praise of the Senses and the Paradox of Taste -- In the Schools -- From the Workshops to the Master of Food -- The University -- The Noah Principle -- Scenes from a Flood -- The Ark and the Presidia -- Quality, the Law, and Biotech -- The Slow Food Award for the Defense of Biodiversity -- Without Nostalgia: Acknowledgments -- The Slow Food Italian Presidia -- The Slow Food International Presidia -- Slow Food Award Winners -- A Chronology of Arcigola Slow Food -- Slow Food U.S.A. Today. Alice Waters -- 1. 2. 3. 4. App. App. App. App. App.
"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.
0231128444 9780231128445
2002191189
Slow Food (Organization)
Gastronomy
Food habits.
TX631 / .P474 2003
641.013