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Slow Food

The Case for Taste

Slow Food( )
Author: Petrini, Carlo
Translator: McCuaig, William
Foreword by: Waters, Alice
Series title:Arts and Traditions of the Table: Perspectives on Culinary History Ser.
ISBN:978-0-231-12845-2
Publication Date:Aug 2004
Publisher:Columbia University Press
Book Format:Paperback
List Price:USD $17.95
Book Description:

Slow Food is poised to revolutionize the way Americans shop for groceries, prepare and consume their meals, and think about food. The book not only recalls the origins, first steps, and international expansion of the movement from the perspective of its founder, it is also a powerful expression of the organization's goal of engendering social reform through the transformation of our attitudes about food and eating. As Newsweek described it, the Slow Food movement has...
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Book Details
Pages:176
Detailed Subjects: Cooking / Essays & Narratives
Social Science / Agriculture & Food
Physical Dimensions (W X L X H):5.967 x 7.878 x 0.546 Inches
Book Weight:0.559 Pounds
Author Biography
Petrini, Carlo (Author)
Chef and restauranteur Alice Waters was born April 28,1944, in Chatham, New Jersey. She attended University of California at Berkeley where she earned a degree in French Cultural Studies.

She has been the owner of the Chez Panisse in Berkeley, California for almost three decades. She is the author of The Chez Panisse Menu Cookbook, and Chez Panisse Vegetables. She also wrote a memoir entitled Coming to My Senses: The Making of a Counterculture Cook. Waters collaborated with others chefs and a cardiologist to produce Heart-Healthy Cooking for All Seasons.

Her awards include the Bon Appetit magazine's Lifetime Achievement Award, Restaurant and Business Leadership Award, Restaurants & Institutions Magazine and the James Beard Humanitarian Award. She was named Best Chef in America by the James Beard Foundation in 1992 and was listed as one of the ten best chefs in the world by Cuisine et Vins de France.

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