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Article: A matter of taste: slow food movement champions 'good, clean, fair' food.(COVER STORY: SLOW FOOD)(Cover story)
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- National Catholic Reporter
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- January 11, 2008
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Think fast food and the images come--well, fast. Drive-through service. Speed. Golden arches. Fat and its accompanying guilt. Ingredients of dubious provenance. (Are there actually potatoes in those fries? Is it weird that the egg on your breakfast sandwich is a perfect cylinder?)
With Slow Food though, even for initates, the images are less clear. That's because Slow Food isn't actually a food category, or a cooking method, but a big tent over components as diverse as gastronomy, ecology and social justice.
Slow Food, the movement, began in Italy as a jocular protest to the opening of a McDonald's near Rome's Spanish ...