Carlo Petrini

Luis Sepulveda

Mutluluga Dair Bir Düsünce

Gigi Padovani

A history of the political and gastronomic movement dedicated to the promotion of natural, organic, and healthy ingredients describes its efforts to conserve natural biodiversity and protect fading agricultural practices that are threatened by mass consumerism, in a culinary odyssey that brings readers on a tour of some of the world's most esoteric food traditions.

A New Culture for Eating and Living

Slow Food Revolution

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.

How the Slow Food Movement is Changing the World Through Gastronomy

Food & Freedom

Why Our Food Should Be Good, Clean, And Fair

Slow Food Nation

Terra Madre

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.

The Case for Taste

Slow Food

Uma ideia de felicidade

Buono, pulito e giusto

Luis Sepúlveda

Un'idea di felicità

Emphasizing the use of natural, organic, and healthy ingredients, the author of Slow Food Revolution explains how we can conserve natural biodiversity and protect fading agricultural practices that are threatened by mass consumerism, by implementing the culinary traditions of the native peoples of diverse regions around the world.

Why Our Food Should be Good, Clean, and Fair

Stefano Mancuso

Biodiversi

Ben Watson

Slow Food Editore

Remember the days before the dot.com explosion, before Golden Arches rose from the Great Plains, before the Age of Information, when the only commodity that wasn't in short supply in America was time? Time to relax and reflect, time to cook well, eat well, and live the life of sustainable hedonism. Today we pound down our Big Mac and fries as we check our e-mail on our collective Palm Pilots, at the expense of true nourishment for our bodies and souls. "Enough!" says Carlo Petrini, the founder of Slow Food International, a movement that encourages us to turn down the volume, unplug the answering machine, and enjoy life to its fullest. Away with nutraceutical soft drinks and breakfast cereals made from refined sugar and shaped liked clowns. Bring back the pleasure of the palate, and return the humanity to food. More than 60,000 members worldwide now belong to the Slow Food movement, which believes that the slow shall inherit the earth. Slow Food: Collected Thoughts on Taste, Tradition, and the Honest Pleasures of Food is an anthology for cooks, gourmets, and anyone who is passionate about food and its impact on our culture. Drawn from five years of the quarterly journal Slow (only recently available in America), this book includes more than 100 articles covering eclectic topics from "Falafel" to "Fat City." From the market at Ulan Bator in Mongolia to Slow Food Down Under, this book offers an armchair tour of the exotic and bizarre. You'll pass through Vietnam's Snake Tavern, enjoy the Post-Industrial Pint of Beer, and learn why the lascivious villain in Indian cinema always eats Tandoori Chicken. The articles are contributed by some of the world's top food writers. Slow Food is moving fast in North America, with more than 5,000 members, loosely organized into 55 "Convivia," from Montreal to San Francisco, benefiting from enormous free publicity. Slow Food offers a clear alternative to the "fast food nation" (the title of Eric Schlosser's great book on the horrors of the fast food biz). This is a perfect follow-up to Joan Dye Gussow's This Organic Life, and is proof positive that he or she who lives slow, lives best.

Collected Thoughts on Taste, Tradition and the Honest Pleasures of Food

Nessun altro che non fosse Petrini poteva raccontare con altrettanta precisione di dati e documenti avvio e ascesa del fenomeno dello Slow Food, ormai internazionalmente consolidato. Questo libro in realtà è un manuale di sopravvivenza umana.Folco Portinari, Tuttolibri«Contro la follia universale della Fast Life, bisogna scegliere la difesa del tranquillo piacere materiale. Contro coloro, e sono i più, che confondono lefficienza con la frenesia, proponiamo il vaccino di unadeguata porzione di piaceri sensuali assicurati, da praticarsi in lento e prolungato godimento. Iniziamo proprio a tavola con lo Slow Food, contro lappiattimento del Fast Food riscopriamo la ricchezza e gli aromi delle cucine locali. Se la Fast Life in nome della produttività ha modificato la nostra vita e minaccia lambiente e il paesaggio, lo Slow Food è oggi la risposta davanguardia.»Dal Documento di fondazione del Movimento Slow Food.

Le ragioni del gusto

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.

How the Slow Food Movement Is Changing the World Through Gastronomy

More than twenty years ago, when Italian Carlo Petrini learned that McDonald's wanted to erect its golden arches next to the Spanish Steps in Rome, he developed an impassioned response: he helped found the Slow Food movement. Since then, Slow Food has become a worldwide phenomenon, inspiring the likes of Alice Waters and Michael Pollan. Now, it's time to take the work of changing the way people grow, distribute, and consume food to a new level. In Terra Madre, Petrini shows us a solution in the thousands of newly formed local alliances between food producers and food consumers. And he proposes expanding these alliances-connecting regional food communities around the world to promote good, clean, and fair food. The end goal is a world in which communities are entitled to food sovereignty-allowed to choose not only what they want to grow and eat, but also how they produce and distribute it.

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