Slow Food. They “march under the banner of the snail, foregather in cells called conviviums and plot a revolution aimed at rolling back the industrial-food juggernaut and promoting small-scale farming and cooking,” as described by Raymond Sokolov in The Wall Street Journal. They are members of the Slow Food movement, “a vast global conspiracy to wean us away from Quarter Pounders and back to a simpler, tastier, more convivial and, yes, slower kind of eating.” Global, it is, yes. But distinctly anti-American, too: “It all started when the Italian journalist Carlo Petrini decided to attack the opening of the first McDonald’s in Rome in 1986…Mr. Petrini organized Slow Food, http://.www.slowfood.it, as a sort of gastronomic Internationale with a ‘manifesto’ rhetorically indebted to the Communist Manifesto (“We are enslaved by speed…”).”
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