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Slow Food Nation: Why Our Food Should Be Good, Clean, And Fair
by Carlo Petrini
from Rizzoli Ex Libris

Customer Reviews:

• Avg. Customer Rating: 4.0 / 5.0

• Slow food, slow reading.
  This was slow, slow reading. Lots of technical information which I am just too tired to digest. Maybe something was lost in the translation? I did not even finish this book and have not recommended it to anyone--quite the opposite.

• Slow Food Nation: A Socialist Eater's Manifesto
  Let me start off by stating that I agree with the essential concept of this book. I think we should all try to slow down, buy locally grown, fresh, seasonal food and cook a few meals from scratch. However, while reading the book something kept striking me as odd. The wording seemed charged, like a propaganda piece meant to demonize modern agriculture and our fast paced society, though Mr. Petrini repeatedly admits that a return to subsistence agriculture could not possibly support the current world... more info

• Slow Food's Petrini continues to evolve
  Carlo Petrini has been attempting to preserve a more traditional view of food for a long time, this book lays out his current thinking in a clear and concise layering of understanding food in culture (gastronomy), understanding quality (good, clean, fair food), and the tools to put these ideas to work in the world going forward.
  As we reconstitute a food culture based on transparency and quality in the USA and hopefully across the globe, this book provides key ideas related to respect for diversity of... more info

• Marvellous introduction to the Slow Food movement
  More than a reaction to Fast Food's arrival in Italy, Slow Food
  has evolved into a global movement encompassing many different actions to improve what we all taste and eat.
  It's not about eating well in the privileged, Michelin-starred table sense. It's about recognizing everyone's barriers to eating well and judging the quality of our food on three levels, asking whether it is good, clean and fair. (The book's original title is just that: Buono, pulito e Giusto).
  The movement's founder... more info

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