print email comment close Slow Food URL: http://www.thenation.com/doc/20010820/stille Description: 2001 article about the history of the "Slow Food" movement, which is "dedicated to preserving and supporting traditional ways of growing, producing and preparing food," and was "founded in 1986, in direct response to the opening of a McDonald's restaurant in Rome's famous Piazza di Spagna." In "the mid-1990s Slow Food developed a new political dimension, called eco-gastronomy." From The Nation magazine. Author: Stille, Alexander Publisher: The Nation Extra Keywords Italy Petrini Library of Congress Subject Headings: Food habits Gastronomy -- Societies, etc. LII Database Information: Record 19727 created by Maria Brandt on 11/14/2005 Last modification on 11/17/2005 Published: 11/17/2005   Funding agency: California State Library LII Item ID: http://lii.org/cs/lii/view/item/19727