Slow Food Movement

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Slow Food Movement

An international movement begun by Carlo Petrini with a forerunner organisation, Arcigola, founded in 1986 to resist the opening of a McDonald's (fast food restaurant) near the Spanish Steps in Rome. The slow food movement strives to preserve traditional and regional cuisine and promotes farming of plants, seeds and livestock characteristic of the local ecosystem

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No references found			There will be taste workshops presented by the Slow Food movement, which celebrates growing food at its natural pace, cooking with patience and savouring meals at leisure. All the ingredients for a great show! Annual culinary extravaganza ... by Birmingham Mail (England) This Sunday, The New York Times' Sharon Otterman introduced readers to slow-blogging, an approach to Web writing "inspired by the slow food movement, which says that fast food is destroying local traditions and healthy eating habits. Bloggers, Press Secretary to Media Cycle: Slow Down by Matt Haber / The New York Observer Founded in 1989 with a snail as its logo, the Slow Food movement campaigns against fast food, the homogenisation of taste and the erosion of local gastronomic traditions. Financial crisis? 'Slow down', says Slow Food founder by AFP / AFP Global Edition			slit scan radiography slit tongue slit-lamp slit-lamp microscope slit-ventricle syndrome slitlamp slitter sliver SLO Slo-Phyllin slobbering slobbers slope slope culture slope, lower ridge slot defect sloth slough sloughed off Sloughi Sloughui slow slow channel Slow Code slow diastolic depolarization Slow Food Movement slow infection slow pain slow pathway slow pulse slow stroking Slow Suicide slow vestibular stimulation slow virus slow virus disease slow-acting insulin Slow-K slow-reacting substance slow-reacting substance of anaphylaxis slow-response action potential slow-twitch slow-twitch fiber SLP SLR Sluder's neuralgia sludge SLUDGE syndrome sludging slug slundhru slurred speech			Slow Crack Growth slow death slow death factor slow death factor slow death factor slow death factor slow diastolic depolarization slow down slow down slow down slow down slow down slow down or up Slow Dynamics and Glass Transition Slow eye Slow Eye Movement Desensitization Slow Eye Movements Slow eyed Slow eyes Slow fading Slow fading Slow fading Slow fading Slow Fading Margin Slow fire Slow fires Slow Flat Fading Channel Slow Food Slow Food Slow Food Huron Valley Slow Food Movement Slow Food on Campus Slow foods Slow Frequency Hopping Slow Frequency Hopping Spread-Spectrum Slow Frequency-Hop Spread-Spectrum Multiple-Access Slow Frequency-Hopped Spread-Spectrum Multiple Access Slow Frequency-Hopping Multi-Carrier slow going Slow Graft Function Slow Ground Moving Target Indicator/Locator slow growing mycobacteria slow growing mycobacteria Slow handclap Slow handclap slow handclaps slow igniter cord Slow in Expressive Language Development slow in understanding Slow In, Fast Out slow infection slow infection slow ion slow lane Slow Learning Disability Slow left arm chinaman Slow left arm orthodox

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