"Carlo Petrini, a food and wine journalist in Italy, founded The Slow Food Movement in 1986. Petrini had become haunted by the spectre of fast food companies eroding Italy's ancient culinary culture. The opening of McDonald's on the Spanish Steps in Rome was the final straw." -- Slow Food, Sybil Kapoor, BBC Food (February 2009)
One finds Slow Food aficionados from Santorini, Greece—above, and of Kypseli fame—to Slow Food Lake Superior. Since its founding the Slow Food Movement has spread across Europe and across the World to include over 100,000 members in 132 countries (Slow Food International). That's 68% of the world's countries—2/3—and when you figure that many of the the other 63 or so countries not part of the Slow Food Movement have more basic food problems, that means that the Slow Food Movement is one of the most wide-spread grass-root movements in modern industrialized countries.
1. From an anthropological point of view, what, in your opinion, are the three most relevant factors driving the Europe-inspired Slow Food movement worldwide?
2. Why?
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Tuesday 24 February 2009: Viewed segments 9-12 of We Feed the World viewed (96 min., CC, 2007, DVD 1330), briefly reviewed exam format, talked about how/why/where of domestication, slides Dietary Revolutions: The Neolithic "Agricultural" Revolution, #51 through maize #104.
"Carlo Petrini, a food and wine journalist in Italy, founded The Slow Food Movement in 1986. Petrini had become haunted by the spectre of fast food companies eroding Italy's ancient culinary culture. The opening of McDonald's on the Spanish Steps in Rome was the final straw." --
Slow Food, Sybil Kapoor, BBC Food (February 2009)
One finds Slow Food aficionados from Santorini, Greece—above, and of Kypseli fame—to Slow Food Lake Superior. Since its founding the Slow Food Movement has spread across Europe and across the World to include over 100,000 members in 132 countries (Slow Food International). That's 68% of the world's countries—2/3—and when you figure that many of the the other 63 or so countries not part of the Slow Food Movement have more basic food problems, that means that the Slow Food Movement is one of the most wide-spread grass-root movements in modern industrialized countries.
1. From an anthropological point of view, what, in your opinion, are the three most relevant factors driving the Europe-inspired Slow Food movement worldwide?
2. Why?
Be sure to set your "Folder Selector"
in the main window
to the current topic [use the “Reload/Main button" to get to the main window]
Set Folder Selector to Topic 5
REM: If you have any questions, you can post them on the AFforum
or bring them up in class
“…It’s a spiritual thing for me to shake the hand that raised the food. It’s a full connection, a completing of the circle. I know the food from plant to plate.” -- Kurt Michael Friese, an Iowa City chef, author, and Slow Food leader
Tuesday 24 February 2009: Viewed segments 9-12 of We Feed the World viewed (96 min., CC, 2007, DVD 1330), briefly reviewed exam format, talked about how/why/where of domestication, slides Dietary Revolutions: The Neolithic "Agricultural" Revolution, #51 through maize #104.
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