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Slow Food Makes Sense
"The challenge, the game, truly begins here in America," said Carlo
Petrini, the Italian founder of the "slow food" movement that emphasizes
a return to regional traditions and home cooking from local, sustainable
grown ingredients. "The country that invented fast food can propose slow
food."
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Forget fast food, try slow food
29 October 2007 - shanghaidaily.com
The backlash against fast food has given rise to the
"slow food" movement celebrating food that is tasty, grown in an
environmentally friendly way by workers who are treated fairly.
In a country of drive-thru dinners and 30-minute meals, cuisine can be
more fraught than haute. So advocates of the slow food movement are
planning what they bill as a "World's Fair of Food" next year.
"The challenge, the game, truly begins here in America," said Carlo
Petrini, the Italian founder of the "slow food" movement that
emphasizes a return to regional traditions and home cooking from
local, sustainable grown ingredients. "The country that invented fast
food can propose slow food."
Petrini, who spoke through an interpreter, and Alice Waters, doyenne
of California cuisine, were in San Francisco at the waterfront
vegetarian restaurant, Greens, recently to announce Slow Food Nation,
a four-day event planned May 2008 in San Francisco.
The event, which Waters compared to a World's Fair, will include taste
workshops, a food film festival, a sustainable fish barge, a
demonstration school garden and world food stands.
The goal, said Waters, founder of the renowned Chez Panisse restaurant
in Berkeley, is capitalizing on the interest people are showing in
what's on their plate and how it got there.
"In a way this shouldn't be an exciting moment because excitement is
not really what slow food is all about," Waters said with a smile,
"but there is a marvelous urgency about what we're doing today."
Mayor Gavin Newsom, who promised with a laugh that he has "every
intention" of being mayor (he's running for re-election this November)
when the conference takes place, wholeheartedly endorsed the event.
"This is a big deal and a big movement around the world," Newsom said.
"It seems only appropriate that we bring this movement to a whole new
level here in San Francisco next year."
Petrini, on tour for his book "Slow Food Nation," founded the movement
in 1986 in response to a McDonald's opening in Rome. It now claims a
worldwide membership of more than 80,000.
The idea is that food should be "good, clean and fair," meaning it's
tasty, grown in an environmentally sustainable fashion by workers who
are paid and treated fairly.
Waters said interest in food has never been higher with many seeing
food as a common language.
Food, she said, is in peoples' minds as "a source of joy and health
and also as an expression of our politics and of our hopes for a
better world."
On the Net:
http://www.slowfoodnation.org/
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