Slow food
Subtitle: the case for taste
By: Carlo Petrini ; translated by William McCuaig
Series: Arts & traditions of the table; Arts and traditions of the table
Publisher: Columbia University Press
Published: 2003
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 155
ISBN-13: 9780231128445; 9780231128452
Subjects: Gastronomy; Ess- und Trinksitte; Food habits; Gaststättengewerbe; Slow food movement; Kultur
Description: Discusses the history and spread of the International Slow Food Movement which was sparked in 1986 when Carlo Petrini organized a protest against plans to build a McDonald's fast food restaurant near the Spanish Steps in Rome, and discusses the movement's goals of preserving indigenous foods and eating traditions, and returning to dining as a social event.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [147]-148) and index.

Translated from the Italian.
Table of contents: title: Foreword / Alice Waters; title: Series editor's introduction; title: Preface; title: Preface to the American edition; title: Official slow-food manifesto; title: Appetite and thought; title: Origins ; From new epicures to ecological gastronomes ; International movement of good taste ; Pleasure denied, pleasure rediscovered ; McDonald's versus slow food; title: In the beginning, the territory; title: Cultivating diversity ; At the center, the producer ; Rebirth of the osteria ; Difficult voyage ; Salone del Gusto; title: Educating and learning; title: Praise of the senses and the paradox of taste ; In the schools ; From the workshops to the master of food ; University; title: Noah principle; title: Scenes from a flood ; Ark and the presidia ; Quality, the law, and biotech ; Slow food award for the defense of biodiversity; title: Without Nostalgia : acknowledgments; title: Appendices; title: Slow food Italian presidia ; Slow food international presidia ; Slow food award winners ; Chronology of Arcigola slow food ; Slow food U.S.A. today.