The main ingredients for it to be “ slow food” are respect for the environment in producing the ingredients, taste and community. This does not necessarily mean slaving away for hours in the kitchen, slow cooking everything it is possible to quickly cook a slow meal. When we take the time to cook our food from scratch, with seasonal ingredients, for instance, and enjoy it with family or friends, it not only tastes better but also has the potential to become a happy memory, an experience worth having. He argues that every person and activity has its own “ tempo giusto” or inherent speed. In an expanded version of his popular TED talk, Honore challenges the common assumption that faster is better. Carl Honore does a great job of pulling all of those slow strands together, showing us what slow living is, and also what it is not. Prior to that, there had been the Slow Food movement in Italy spreading out to other places, and other groups attempting to slow down particular facets of their lives. This is the book that started it all, that coined the term the “Slow Movement”.
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