Slow Food Movement


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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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At the heart of the slow food movement in the Philippines is the preferential choice for food that is innately 'good,'' said Legarda, a member of one of the five local chapters of the slow food movement in the country.
Legarda: Serve 'slow food' for 'media noche'
Critique: Presenting a somewhat iconoclastic perspective on the meaning of freedom and social change, "Food & Freedom: How the Slow Food Movement Is Changing the World Through Gastronomy" is a compelling, informative, and insightful read from beginning to end.
Food & Freedom
The Slow Food movement aims to connect consumers to their food and those who produce it.
Third Annual Slow Food Santa Cruz Edible Gardens Tour - August 23, 2014
Stone reported it will serve "an extensive array of exceptional craft and specialty beers from other breweries in Germany, Europe and across the world, both on tap and in bottles," and the restaurant will focus on locally-grown organic food in the tradition of the Slow Food movement.
Stone Brewing Co. to open brewery and restaurant in Berlin, Germany
In 1986, the Italian activist Carlo Petrini founded the now-global Slow Food movement partly in protest against the business practices of McDonald's.
Editor's letter
This documentary is an intimate portrait of the man behind the slow food movement, Carlo Petrini, and the gastronomes that helped make it a global crusade.
The deep dish revolutionary: slow Food Story
Coplin will speak on how coffee grown far away still can fit into the values - good, clean and fair - espoused by the slow food movement.
FOOD NOTES
Dr Fenn is a champion of the Slow Food movement, which advocates taking time to prepare and eat locally sourced food, rather than zapping something in a microwave or grabbing a snack to go.
Fat's not the way to drop dress size; Nutritionist says low fat foods aren't best way to lose weight
The market itself though - along with its sister, the Willowbridge Slow Market up near the vast Tyger Valley shopping mall near Belville in Cape Town's northern suburbs - is a member of the now internationally renowned Slow Food movement, which was set up in 1989 to try and counteract the impact of fast-food and the 'fast lifestyle' to which it is linked.
South African Adventure: Cheese, Wine and Classic Vinyl Create the Perfect Market Combo
Hence, the popularity of farmers markets, CSAs, the Slow Food movement, artisanal bakeries, locavorism, organics, and other aspects of the movement toward whole, healthy, organic, locally grown food.
A new generation of farmers
When McDonalds announced the opening of a branch near the city's famous Spanish Steps in 1986, Italian food activist Carlo Petrini launched a protest, setting up what is now known as the Slow Food movement.
Good things come to those who wait; The Slow Food movement has inspired a Warwickshire couple to set up a deli at their home. Mary Griffin meets them
Business and economics, tourism, community resources and development, and geography, planning, and recreation scholars from New Zealand, Europe, North America, Asia, and Israel first consider the concept of local food in Canada, Japan, New Zealand, Norway, Sweden, the UK, and the US, followed by chapters on the idea of what constitutes sustainable food in Norway, New Zealand, Sweden, Malaysia, and the UK, with discussion of the Slow Food movement, cross-industry partnerships, winegrowing, halal certification, and heritage and regional identity.
Sustainable culinary systems; local foods, innovation, and tourism and hospitality
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