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Slow Food Nation: Why Our Food Should Be Good, Clean, And Fair Hardcover – May 8, 2007

by Carlo Petrini (Author), Clara Furlan (Translator), Jonathan Hunt (Translator),

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By now most of us are aware of the threats looming in the food world. The best-selling Fast Food Nation and other recent books have alerted us to such dangers as genetically modified organisms, food-borne diseases, and industrial farming. Now it is time for answers, and Slow Food Nation steps up to the challenge. Here the charismatic leader of the Slow Food movement, Carlo Petrini, outlines many different routes by which we may take back control of our food. The three central principles of the Slow Food plan are these: food must be sustainably produced in ways that are sensitive to the environment, those who produce the food must be fairly treated, and the food must be healthful and delicious. In his travels around the world as ambassador for Slow Food, Petrini has witnessed firsthand the many ways that native peoples are feeding themselves without making use of the harmful methods of the industrial complex. He relates the wisdom to be gleaned from local cultures in such varied places as Mongolia, Chiapas, Sri Lanka, and Puglia. Amidst our crisis, it is critical that Americans look for insight from other cultures around the world and begin to build a new and better way of eating in our communities here.

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“Petrini builds his case against fast food and offers ways to bring back the balance between nature and our table.” ~Bon Appetit

“The book is an earthly, through treatise on eating well.” ~Whole Living

“In Slow Food Nation, Petrini demonstrates the ultimate mission of the Slow Food Movement by exposing the dangers of the food industry, which include genetically modified organisms, chemicals, and pesticides.” ~WholeFoods Magazine

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Carlo Petrini is the founder and driving force of Slow Food and was recently acclaimed as a great innovator in Time magazine's list of "European Heroes."

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Publisher ‏ : ‎ Rizzoli Ex Libris (May 8, 2007)
Language ‏ : ‎ English
Hardcover ‏ : ‎ 304 pages
ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 0847829456
ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-0847829453
Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 1.08 pounds
Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 5.46 x 0.95 x 8.72 inches

Best Sellers Rank: #1,913,101 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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M. Dumont Valli

Marvellous introduction to the Slow Food movement

Reviewed in the United States on December 8, 2007

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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 wrote this book to set out a new definition of gastronomy, enumerating some of the issues facing our food supply and helping to turn a thinking eater to positive action.
Beautifully translated, Slow Food Nation is a cogent & readable introduction to what Slow Food is about. Highly recommended!

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Pam Picks

Slow Food Can Change the World

Reviewed in the United States on January 5, 2010

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A great book for anyone wanting to know about the 20 year old revolution of slow food that began in Italy...buying locally grown and produced foods to provide the healthiest foods for our bodies and to take care of our planet as well. If you're into agricultural and ecological sustainability or your not, but you either want to be a part of it or are curious about it...this book is the one to start with. An easy read and highly recommended.

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Eryn Kathleen

excellent book

Reviewed in the United States on January 7, 2014

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great intro to america's everlasting abundance of food and production means, that are leading us to debatable methods of unfair production.
perfect for someone who is interested in food justice, GMO's, cultural salvation, and finding truly GOOD, CLEAN and FAIR food for their families or themselves.
change what you eat, change the world

Reviewed in the United States on May 30, 2018

Great purchase

Reviewed in the United States on May 20, 2017

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Very interesting!!

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Planet West

I picked this book for my class "Science and Technology ...

Reviewed in the United States on January 22, 2018

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I picked this book for my class "Science and Technology Studies". It is a class where every pseudo-science is thoroughly trounced. It was hard to defend this book, but before I read it, I would have considered myself a slow-food disciple! After I read it, I felt foolish for thinking I agreed with the Slow Food people. Foodies are so far beyond these ideas; we understand that taking a calf away from it's mother is cruel, no matter how you do it, and killing a steer for beef is cruel, no matter when. Making an animal uncomfortable in any way what-so-ever is wrong. Taking a chicken's eggs is taking the chicken's property. A hen will live up to 20 years old unless her eggs are continually taken. Steal the eggs from a Robin's nest and watch her desperately lay eggs all summer, trying to collect enough to hatch, two years in a row, and observe the Robin die trying, while you secretly steal all of her eggs. Would you do that? It doesn't matter HOW animals are raised, if they are being exploited for anything, or in anyway made different than they would be in nature, it is wrong.

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J. Canestrino

Slow Food Nation: A Socialist Eater's Manifesto

Reviewed in the United States on October 3, 2008

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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 population. I thought that maybe it was just the translation then on page 187 I came across the statement, "We do not need the accumulation of wealth, but its redistribution..." Then I realized, it is meant to be bit of a propaganda piece which explains the rhetoric. And, I have to wonder about the first example in the book, the traditional peppers of Asti that are no longer grown in Asti. Peppers are a new world crop and could not have been in Italy much before 1500. Here in America that might seem historic, but in the land of the Roman Empire that is barely out of adolesence. I guess it is okay to pick and choose which local, traditional foods about which one chooses to wax rhapsodically.

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Mark

Five Stars

Reviewed in the United States on December 10, 2015

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Love slow food

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