Slow Food: The Case for Taste Book

	Foreword
	Series Editor's Introduction
	Preface
	Preface to the American Edition
	The Official Slow Food Manifesto
1	Appetite and Thought	1
	The Origins	1
	From "New Epicures" to Ecological Gastronomes	8
	An International Movement of Good Taste	16
	Pleasure Denied, Pleasure Rediscovered	20
	McDonald's Versus Slow Food	26
2	In the Beginning, the Territory	37
	Cultivating Diversity	37
	At the Center, the Producer	41
	The Rebirth of the Osteria	51
	The Difficult Voyage	54
	The Salone del Gusto	59
3	Educating and Learning	65
	The Praise of the Senses and the Paradox of Taste	65
	In the Schools	72
	From the Workshops to the Master of Food	76
	The University	81
4	The Noah Principle	85
	Scenes from a Flood	85
	The Ark and the Presidia	90
	Quality, the Law, and Biotech	99
	The Slow Food Award for the Defense of Biodiversity	105
	Without Nostalgia: Acknowledgments	111
App	The Slow Food Italian Presidia	113
App	The Slow Food International Presidia	120
App	Slow Food Award Winners	128
App	A Chronology of Arcigola Slow Food	135
App	Slow Food U.S.A. Today	142
	Notes	145
	Select Bibliography	147
	Index	149