Food & freedom
Subtitle: how the slow food movement is changing the world through gastronomy
By: Carlo Petrini ; translated by John Irving
Contributors: Irving, John (Editor)
Published: 2015
Language: eng
Number of pages: 240
ISBN-13: 9780847846856
Subjects: Gastronomy; Slow food movement; Food habits; Slow Food (Organization)
Other titles: Food and freedom
Work titles: Cibo e libertà
Description: Inspiring the global fight to revolutionize the way food is grown, distributed, and eaten. In the almost thirty years since Carlo Petrini began the Slow Food organization, he has been constantly engaged in the fight for food justice. Beginning first in his native Italy and then expanding all over the world, the movement has created a powerful force for change. The essential argument of this book is that food is an avenue towards freedom. This uplifting and humanistic message is straightforward: if people can feed themselves, they can be free. In other words, if people can regain control over access to their food--how it is produced, by whom, and how it is distributed--then that can lead to a greater empowerment in all channels of life. Whether in the Amazon jungle talking with tribal elders or on rice paddies in rural Indonesia, the author engages the reader through the excitement of his journeys and the passion of his mission. Here, Petrini reports upon some of the success stories that he has observed firsthand. From Chiapas to Puglia, Morocco to North Carolina, he has witnessed the many ways different peoples have dealt with food problems. This book allows us to learn from these case studies and lays out models for the future.
Notes: Originally published in Italy as Cibo e Libertà.
Table of contents: title: Machine generated contents note: Liberated Gastronomy; title: In the Beginning Was Wine; title: Touring the Country; title: Milano Golosa; title: Eco-Gastronomy; title: GCF; title: I Like It!; title: Clean Wines; title: Slaves; title: UNISG; title: What a Science!; title: What Next?; title: Liberating Diversity; title: In Search of the Missionary; title: We Aren't Free on the Free Market; title: The Wasteconomy; title: Unpairing the Cards; title: An Ark with a Cargo of 10,000 Foods; title: New Diversity, New Biodiversity; title: Say Cheese!; title: The Last?; title: Indigenous Peoples; title: Tools; title: A Free Network; title: Taksim; title: From Istanbul to Seattle with Stops Along the Way; title: Ten Thousand Nodes in the Free Network; title: For Example: A Green Star on a Red Field; title: From a Bell in New Orleans to the Crop Mobs of Detroit; title: A Night at Salone Del Gusto; title: Terra Madre 2012; title: The CAP; title: Free, But Free for Real; title: The Gastronomy of Liberation; title: On Liberation; title: Paradigmatic Peru; title: Back to Brazil; title: In Mexico; title: Colombia, the Importance of the Land; title: Prospects for New Liberations Across the Atlantic; title: Uganda, a View of the Future; title: Ten Thousand Gardens in Africa; title: All Together Against the Disgrace of Hunger and Malnutrition; title: Food and Freedom Because Food Is Freedom.