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Article: S-L-O-W GOOD!(Food)(Advocates of a movement to savor our mealtimes say it's time to stop and taste the food)
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- The Register Guard (Eugene, OR)
- Article date:
- November 9, 2005
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Byline: Randi Bjornstad The Register-Guard
Whatever the reasons - two-worker households trying to make the family ends meet, the ease of flying foods halfway around the world to distant supermarkets and access to labor-saving devices of every description - people (at least those in the industrialized world) are living faster, spending fewer hours at home with their families and even less than that in the kitchen.
The trend not only has taken a toll on the taste and visual appeal of the food we put on our tables, say participants in the international "slow food movement," but the degree of mechanization required to meet the demand of worldwide markets ...