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Author Petrini, Carlo, 1949-

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

Publication Info. New York : Columbia University Press, [2003]

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 Enfield, Main Library - Adult Department  641 PET    Check Shelf
Description xxiv, 155 pages ; 21 cm.
Series Arts & traditions of the table
Arts and traditions of the table.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages [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.
Subject Gastronomy.
Food habits.
ISBN 0231128444 alkaline paper
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