Slow Food hareketinin sembolü "salyangoz"dur. Hayat içinde sürekli yiyerek yavaş, temkinli ama kararlılıkla ilerleyen salyangoz, cüssesinden beklenmeyecek mesafeler aşar ve geçtiği yerlerde izini bırakır. Tıpkı simgesi salyangoz gibi, Slow Food hareketi de yola çıktığından beri inanılmaz mesafeler kat etmiş, 1986'da İtalya'da küçük bir grupken, bugün 132 ülkede yaklaşık 100 bin üyesiyle dünyanın en etkili gastronomi hareketine dönüşmüştür.
Slow Food Devrimi'nde "temiz, adil, sağlıklı gıda" prensibiyle endüstriyel gıdalara ve beslenme biçimlerine karşı mücadele veren ve unutulmaya yüz tutan yeme içme geleneklerinin, tarım yöntemlerinin ve biyoçeşitliliğin korunması için çalışan bu hareketin heyecan verici macerasını okuyacaksınız.
A journalist does some work and pieces interviews together about the history and future of slow food. Additional information is included on the presidia and resources. Probably needs to be updated.
This is not a book worth reading, especially in 2019. The translation is very difficult to follow, most chapters read like a list of committees and organizations that were constantly being formed, reformed, merged, etc. If you must read it, at least skip ahead to chapter 4 or later, so that you skip a lot of the preamble and actually reach a point where they were taking action and making some sort of change. The end of the book features stories and information about some of the "rare" foods that Slow Food is trying to protect, and the book would have been much better served to just focus on that. Still, if that's what you're interested in, just read Dan Barber's Third Plate for a better written version of that. Seriously don't bother with this.
Honestly? I got to page 12. That's how bad the writing and/or translation was. I'm interested in the Slow Food movement, but will find out information from a source that can actually write. There were so many organization and individual names listed by page 5 that I wanted to throw the damn thing across the room. Plus, the authors can't keep a train of thought going for more than a paragraph at a time.
Of all the Slow Food publications, this one is the best to understand how Slow Food came about. However, I don't know if it's the translation from Italian to English or just Petrini's writing style, but the writing is dense. A lot of detail as well. Really worth the read for those interested in the topic or those who are interested in social revolutions, but others might not find it at all interesting.
Everyone who knows me knows how much I enjoy a slow cooked home meal or just good food in general. I grew up eating at the dinner table every night even if only one parent was present and only hot dog macaroni concoction. If its made with love that's all that really matters. I believe in the Slow Food Revolution.
This book was a history of the Slow Food movement, complete with many many many specific details about the political origins of Slow Food and its development to the global organization promoting heirlooom foods and breeds. I skimmed the last two thirds of the book. Trying to finish it was keeping me from reading.
This book was constructed as a chronological timeline of events that led to the establishment of the movement, with little anecdotes dispersed in between. If you want to know more about the revolution and the philosophy behind it (rather than Italian legislation and politics), begin from the end and read the testimonials by local farmers, fishermen, winemakers from around the world.
Well, I can't exactly call this read. I more like flipped through it. I love food books and I love books about food politics, but I found this one to be kind of boring/pretentious. I might check it out again sometime to give it another try but it is due today.
The language and material was hard to get through some times; it wasn't an easy bedtime book. However, the information was fascinating! Reading through the Presidia in the back was particularly interesting.
If you're looking for Slow Food inspiration, then this is not the book for you. If you have a passing interest in the politics in Italy a few decades ago, it might be.