Slow food: the case for taste

by Petrini, Carlo

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Slow Food is poised to revolutionize the way Americans shop for groceries, prepare and consume their meals, and think about food. The book 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…

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  • Full title :Slow food : the case for taste / Carlo Petrini ; translated by William McCuaig.

Summary

Slow Food is poised to revolutionize the way Americans shop for groceries, prepare and consume their meals, and think about food. The book 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 gen.

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Edition Statements

  • Publication Date:2003

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Notes

Titre de l'écran-titre (visionné le 8 août 2011).

TRAITEMENT SOMMAIRE.

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  • Description:1 online resource.

Edition Identifiers

  • oclc:ocn748865883
  • LC Classification:TX631
  • Dewey Decimal:641/.01/3

Table of Contents

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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Subjects

Feeding Behavior Food habits Food habits -- History Gastronomie gastronomy Habitudes alimentaires Livres électroniques Slow Food (Mouvement) Slow food movement

Writers

Petrini, Carlo

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