What are the origins of Slow Food
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About the video: ‘What are the origins of Slow Food’
Erika Lesser talks about the origins of the Slow Food movement, founded by Italian journalist Carlo Petrini in the mid-1980s. Recognizing that the industrialization of food was homogenizing taste and rendering thousands of food varieties extinct, Petrini started a campaign in Italy to preserve local food culture. The campaign has since become a global movement with close to a hundred thousand supporters from over 50 countries.
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Filmed: New York City, USA on 11 April 2005
Credits: Interviewer - Marcus Morrell Camera and Editor - Marcus Morrell
Copyright © 2005 Big Picture TV
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