Slow Food

Collected Thoughts on Taste, Tradition, and the Honest Pleasure of Food

by Carlo Petrini, Slow Food Editore, Ben Watson

Foreword by Deborah Madison

Praise

We all go to the same place, so let us go there slowly.

—Carlo Petrini, Founder of Slow Food, as quoted in Fast Company

We applaud Slow Food's rejection of homogeneity and its celebration of the local, the quirky, the rare.

—Saveur Magazine

Slow is beautiful.

—The Boston Globe

Slow Food's straightforward message is hard to argue with: Foods and food preservation that have given culinary pleasure for decades (or much longer) should be treasured and preserved.

—The Washington Post

Slow Food's straightforward message is hard to argue with: Foods and food preservation that have given culinary pleasure for decades (or much longer) should be treasured and preserved.

—Utne Reader

There are many avenues to a better world; this one winds delicately across the palate, delighting our taste buds along the way.

—NAPRA Review

If membership in the Slow Food movement yielded nothing besides access to great food writing, it would still be a bargain at twice the price... It is rich, intelligent, insighful writing that will anger you one moment and leave you drooling the next. Buy the book then loan it to a friend.

—Kurt M. Friese

Fighting for the survival of the unfittest is the best way to preserve North America's culinary diversification.

—Food & Wine

Slow Food has become an adroit advocate for the protection of the environment, as well as for the enjoyment and appreciation of fine food and drink.

—Food Arts

What would the world be without Creole cream cheese, Roman taffy candy and rice calas?

—The New Orleans Times-Picayune