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Slow Food is moving fast in North America, with more than 5,000 members, loosely organized into 55 "Convivia," from Montreal to San Francisco, benefiting from enormous free publicity. Slow Food offers a clear alternative to the "fast food nation" (the title of Eric Schlosser's great book on the horrors of the fast food biz). This is a perfect follow-up to Joan Dye Gussow's This Organic Life, and is proof positive that he or she who lives slow, lives best.
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Slow Food, founded in 1986, is an international organization whose aim is to protect the pleasures of the table from homogenization of modern fast food and life. Through a variety of initiatives, it promotes gastronomic culture, devlopes taste education, conserves agricultural biodiversity and protects traditional foods at risk of extinction.
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In November 2007, Slow Food USA announced a partnership with GOOD, joining eleven other nonprofit organizations that benefit directly from GOOD's growth. GOOD focuses on social, political, and environmental issues, and will donate 100% of its subscription revenue to nonprofit groups. If you sign up for a subscription to GOOD you can designate your $20 subscription fee to Slow Food USA, a win-win situation. Visit the subscription page and consider adding GOOD to your monthly reading list.
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Founded by Carlo Petrini in 1986, Slow Food became an international association in 1989. It now boasts 85 000 members, offices (in order of creation) in Italy, Germany, Switzerland, USA, France, Japan and the United Kingdom and supporters in 130 countries.
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A major Slow Food event in Australia is planned for 28 August to 10 September in Melbourne. Especially worthwhile attending if you cannot visit Turin in October for the Salone del Gusto. There is an excellent series of events, especially over the weekend of September 9 and 10 at the Abbotsford Convent site. The extensive programme includes David Pugh of Brisbane’s Restaurant Two who will be demonstrating cooking food which you can later eat. (always the best kind. Ed.)
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Slow Food was founded in 1989 to celebrate good food and to protect the pleasures of the table from the sameness of fast food and fast life. Slow Food promotes gastronomical culture, sponsors taste education, conserves agricultural biodiversity, and protects traditional foods from disappearing. It has over 80,000 members in over 50 countries, publishes food guides, books, and magazines, targets and supports endangered foods, and holds hundreds of workshops and conferences every year. For more complete information, go to www.slowfoodusa.org.
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