What is Slow Food?
Slow Food is an “eco-gastronomic” movement that encourages everyone to reclaim the pleasures of the table with friends and family. Eating therefore becomes a moment of sharing and discovery. Everyone is invited to reconnect with traditions or explore new culinary cultures while having an environmental concern. And above all, we have to get our hands dirty. Come on! To your saucepans ...
In response to the frenzy of speed that has seized the culture of post-industrial societies and to the concept of fast food that standardizes tastes, the Slow Food movement arises in dissident. It helps the distracted consumer to become an informed gourmet.
The story
“There is no point in forcing the rhythms of our existence. The art of living consists in learning how to dedicate time to everything. "
Carlo Petrini, founder of Slow Food
In 1986, the McDonald's restaurant chain prepared to set up a branch in the splendid Spanish Steps (Piazza di Spagna), a historic site in Rome. Faced with what they consider to be an unacceptable advance of junk food in the land of Italy, the food columnist Carlo Petrini and his colleagues from the Italian gastronomic company Arcigola then lay the foundations of the Slow Food movement. With humor and intelligence, they convince a bunch of Italian artists and intellectuals to join their project. After all, Italy is the cradle of great European cuisine. French cuisine is even indebted to it for its letters of nobility.
Carlo Petrini developed the concept of Slow Food first as a joke, a philosophical wink unchecked to gourmet Italians. Then, the idea gained ground so well that in 1989, Slow Food became an international non-profit organization. The launch takes place at the Opéra comique de Paris with the adoption of the Slow Food Manifesto for taste and biodiversity, presented by Carlo Petrini.
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