The Slow Food Story: Politics And Pleasure

by Geoff Andrews

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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0745327443
• ISBN13: 9780745327440
• Release Date: September 2008
• Publisher: Pluto Press (UK)
• Length: 216 Pages
• Weight: 0.55 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 5.5" x 8.5"