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'A thoughtful account of how politics came back to eating' -- Steven Poole, The Guardian 'The best account so far of the history and animating ideas behind Slow Food. An indispensable introduction' -- Michael Pollan, author of In Defense of Food: An Eater's Manifesto 'Shows us that the concept of Slow Food is not just a practical necessity for survival but offers a glimpse of a transformative change for the better in the way we live our lives' -- Neal Lawson, Chair of the political pressure group Compass 'The essential one-stop critical guide to the history, ideas, structure, and membership of the Slow Food movement' -- John Dickie, Reader in Italian Studies, University College London

The Slow Food Story is the essential one-stop critical guide to the history, ideas, structure, and membership of the Slow Food movement. -- John Dickie, Reader in Italian Studies, University College London The globalisation of capitalism has left democracy in its wake. Our lives are now beyond our control. Nowhere is this more apparent than in what and how we eat. Geoff Andrews shows us that the concept of Slow Food is not just a practical necessity for survival but offers a glimpse of a transformative change for the better in the way we live our lives. -- Neal Lawson, Chair of the political pressure group Compass The Slow Food Story is the best account so far of the history and animating ideas behind Slow Food. An indispensable introduction. -- Michael Pollan, author of In Defense of Food: An Eater's Manifesto Andrews's history of slow food is a thoughtful account of how politics came back to eating -- Steven Poole, The Guardian

'A thoughtful account of how politics came back to eating' -- Steven Poole, The Guardian 'The best account so far of the history and animating ideas behind Slow Food. An indispensable introduction' -- Michael Pollan, author of In Defense of Food: An Eater's Manifesto 'Shows us that the concept of Slow Food is not just a practical necessity for survival but offers a glimpse of a transformative change for the better in the way we live our lives' -- Neal Lawson, Chair of the political pressure group Compass 'The essential one-stop critical guide to the history, ideas, structure, and membership of the Slow Food movement' -- John Dickie, Reader in Italian Studies, University College London

Andrews's history of slow food is a thoughtful account of how politics came back to eating -- Steven Poole, The Guardian The Slow Food Story is the best account so far of the history and animating ideas behind Slow Food. An indispensable introduction. -- Michael Pollan, author of In Defense of Food: An Eater's Manifesto The globalisation of capitalism has left democracy in its wake. Our lives are now beyond our control. Nowhere is this more apparent than in what and how we eat. Geoff Andrews shows us that the concept of Slow Food is not just a practical necessity for survival but offers a glimpse of a transformative change for the better in the way we live our lives. -- Neal Lawson, Chair of the political pressure group Compass The Slow Food Story is the essential one-stop critical guide to the history, ideas, structure, and membership of the Slow Food movement. -- John Dickie, Reader in Italian Studies, University College London

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Geoff Andrews is a writer and academic. His recent writing has been on modern Italy and he is the author of Not a Normal Country: Italy after Berlusconi (Pluto Press, 2005). He has also written on British politics and the history of social and political movements and his previous books include: Endgames and New Times; The Final Years of British Communism (Lawrence and Wishart, 2004). In addition to his academic work, he also writes for a range of newspapers and journals, including the Financial Times, Open Democracy, and Soundings, of which he is an associate editor. He is currently Staff Tutor in Politics at the Open University. For further news of his recent writing go to www.geoffandrews.net

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