Slow food : the case for taste / Carlo Petrini ; translated by William McCuaig.

  • Petrini, Carlo, 1949-
Date:
[2003]
  • Books

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Publication/Creation

New York : Columbia University Press, [2003]

Physical description

xxiv, 155 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm.

Bibliographic information

Includes bibliographical references (p. [147]-148) and index.

Contents

Foreword / Alice Waters -- Series editor's introduction -- Preface -- Preface to the American edition -- Official slow-food manifesto -- Appetite and thought -- Origins ; From new epicures to ecological gastronomes ; International movement of good taste ; Pleasure denied, pleasure rediscovered ; McDonald's versus slow food -- In the beginning, the territory -- Cultivating diversity ; At the center, the producer ; Rebirth of the osteria ; Difficult voyage ; Salone del Gusto -- Educating and learning -- Praise of the senses and the paradox of taste ; In the schools ; From the workshops to the master of food ; University -- Noah principle -- Scenes from a flood ; Ark and the presidia ; Quality, the law, and biotech ; Slow food award for the defense of biodiversity -- Without Nostalgia : acknowledgments -- Appendices -- Slow food Italian presidia ; Slow food international presidia ; Slow food award winners ; Chronology of Arcigola slow food ; Slow food U.S.A. today.

Language note

Translated from the Italian. Slow Food: le ragioni del gusto.

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ISBN

  • 0231128444
  • 9780231128445
  • 0231128452
  • 9780231128452