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Cover art credit: Nikki McClure
Slow Food Nation
Why Our Food Should Be Good, Clean and Fair
by Carlo Petrini
Foreword by Alice Waters
Published by Rizzoli New York
Slow Food founder Carlo Petrini will tour the U.S. in May 2007 for the publication of his new book Slow Food Nation: Why Our Food Should Be Good, Clean and Fair. Petrini will also help launch a year-long campaign that will culminate in the event: Slow Food Nation 2008.
Slow Food Nation will change the way you think about food. Petrini describes how we can take back control of our food by outlining three central principles: food must be good (healthful and delicious); it must be clean (produced sustainably in ways that respect the environment), and it must be fair (produced with respect for social justice). His philosophy includes teaching gastronomy—the science of all knowledge revolving around food—in our schools. Instead of consumers, today we should become co-producers, active participants in the production of our food.
Praise for the book
“A worthy successor to Brillat-Savarin, Carlo Petrini has reinvented the idea of gastronomy for the twenty-first century. An important book.”
-Michael Pollan, author of The Botany of Desire and The Omnivore’s Dilemma
“Carlo Petrini is one of the most important thinkers of our time, not only about what to eat, but also about how to live. This book is essential reading for anyone who cares about social justice, the environment, and the fundamentals of a good meal.”
-Eric Schlosser, author of Fast Food Nation
“This is the argument I have been waiting for—an irrefutable demonstration that making the right decision about food can change the world.”
-Alice Waters, from the foreword
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