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The Slow Food Story - Politics and Pleasure (Paperback)
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The Slow Food Story - Politics and Pleasure (Paperback)
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The Slow Food movement was set up in Italy as a response to the
dominance of fast food chains, supermarkets and large-scale
agribusiness. It seeks to defend what it calls 'the universal right
to pleasure' and promotes an alternative approach to food
production and consumption based on the promotion of 'good, clean
and fair' local products. This is the first in-depth study of the
fascinating politics of Slow Food, which in twenty years has grown
into an international organisation with more than 80,000 members in
over 100 countries. With its roots in the 1960s and 1970s
counter-culture, Slow Food's distinctive politics lie in the unity
between gastronomic pleasure and environmental responsibility. The
movement crosses the left-right divide to embrace both the
conservative desire to preserve traditional rural communities and
an alternative 'virtuous' idea of globalisation. Geoff Andrews
shows that the alternative future embodied in Slow Food extends to
all aspects of modern life. The Slow Food Story presents an
extensive new critique of fast-moving, work-obsessed contemporary
capitalist culture.
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