ABSTRACT
This chapter discusses the slow food and presidia as archetypal themes that characterize utopias. It expresses the slow food presidia represent such a utopian perspective, which can be considered a counter experiment that challenges the ideologies of fast and cheap food which characterize a global food system. Slow Food can be placed at the intersection between a nostalgic phase of utopian thinking and a technologic dystopic one. Presidia, in fact, work to conjointly safeguard products, rural practices, rural landscapes and ecosystems, going beyond a mere act of cataloguing biodiversity and providing the basis to continue the production of such products considered able to generate income through coordination of and support to the producers of a particular place. Many Presidia come from a rich tradition of food and an ability to conform to a territory's features and transform the products according to the contingent conditions.
