ABSTRACT
The Slow Food movement started in a small town of Bra, Italy, where the founder Carlo Petrini was born and raised. The Slow Food movement attracted global attention with the protest in response to the opening of a McDonald’s restaurant in the Piazza di Spagna in Rome. The history of Slow Food is politically related to the Italian left, and the Slow Food organization is dedicated to cultural politics. Slow Food is a philosophy of life, with members sharing the same values and convictions toward the food lifestyle. Slow Food values the knowledge of local producers and diversity of places where food is manufactured using local recipes and flavors. Slow Food has been organizing many activities through each convivium located in different countries/regions. The Slow Food Foundation for Biodiversity is a non-profit foundation established in 2003 as a response to the necessity to organize and finance Presidia and other Slow Food projects to defend food biodiversity in a translucent way.
