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Slow Food
Petrini, Carlo. Ed(S): Petrini, Carlo
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Description for Slow Food
In 1986, the author decided to resist the steady march of fast food and all that it represents when he organized a protest against the building of a McDonald's near the Spanish Steps in Rome. This book is an expression of the organization's goal of engendering social reform through the transformation of our attitudes about food and eating. Editor(s): Petrini, Carlo. Translator(s): McCuaig, William. Series: Arts & Traditions of the Table: Perspectives on Culinary History. Num Pages: 176 pages, 5 photos. BIC Classification: JHBS; WB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 210 x 158 x 19. Weight in Grams: 454.
Take a breath...Read slowly. How often in the course and crush of our daily lives do we afford ourselves moments to truly relish-to truly be present in-the act of preparing and eating food? For most of us, our enjoyment of food has fallen victim to the frenetic pace of our lives and to our increasing estrangement, in a complex commercial economy, from the natural processes by which food is grown and produced. Packaged, artificial, and unhealthful, fast food is only the most dramatic example of the degradation of food in our lives, and of the deeper threats to our ... Read more
Take a breath...Read slowly. How often in the course and crush of our daily lives do we afford ourselves moments to truly relish-to truly be present in-the act of preparing and eating food? For most of us, our enjoyment of food has fallen victim to the frenetic pace of our lives and to our increasing estrangement, in a complex commercial economy, from the natural processes by which food is grown and produced. Packaged, artificial, and unhealthful, fast food is only the most dramatic example of the degradation of food in our lives, and of the deeper threats to our ... Read more
Product Details
Publication date
2003
Publisher
Columbia University Press United States
Number of pages
176
Condition
New
Series
Arts & Traditions of the Table: Perspectives on Culinary History
Number of Pages
176
Format
Hardback
Place of Publication
New York, United States
ISBN
9780231128445
SKU
V9780231128445
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99-15
About Petrini, Carlo. Ed(S): Petrini, Carlo
Carlo Petrini is a food writer and the founder and president of the International Slow Food Movement. He lives in Bra, Italy. William McCuaig is a translator living in Toronto. Alice Waters is executive chef and owner of Chez Panisse restaurant in Berkeley, CA.
Reviews for Slow Food
Neither a cookbook nor a foodie memoir, Slow Food is nevertheless an important work... Petrini's work is both a philosophical treatise and a history of the movement all in one slim volume, yet it suffices. Library Journal (starred review) I always felt like Groucho Marx, who said he would never join a club that'd have him as a member, but ... Read more