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	<title>Better Planet &#187; Slow Food Nation</title>
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		<title>Slow Food Nation Tries Not to Be So Bourgeois</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 01 Sep 2008 15:10:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Benjamin Nugent</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[My favorite quote from the Slow Food Nation conference this weekend came from Wendall Berry (poet, essayist, farmer, panelist).
 He held up a copy of a San Francisco Chronicle piece that said the best advertisement for the Slow Food movement was the pleasure of carefully preparing and lingering over a meal, and then described what [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>My favorite quote from the <a href="http://slowfoodnation.org/" target="_blank">Slow Food Nation conference this weekend</a> came from Wendall Berry (poet, essayist, farmer, panelist).</p>
<p><a href="http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/betterplanet/files/2008/09/img_2527.jpg" title="Slow Food Nation"><img src="http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/betterplanet/files/2008/09/img_2527.jpg" alt="Slow Food Nation" align="left" height="228" width="303" /></a> He held up a copy of a San Francisco Chronicle piece that said the best advertisement for the Slow Food movement was the pleasure of carefully preparing and lingering over a meal, and then described what the article got wrong. <a href="http://online.wsj.com/article/SB122022613854086965.html?mod=googlenews_wsj" target="_blank">The following account of what he said is from the Journal:</a></p>
<p><em>[Berry] said the reporter described pleasure, as it relates to the Slow Food movement, in a limited view &#8212; that the description treated pleasure as a specialty, &#8220;a form of idleness,&#8221; which leaves out the possibility that good work could also be pleasurable&#8230; By limiting the ideas behind Slow Food to just &#8220;tasteful consumption,&#8221; Mr. Berry argued, the movement is limited in its growth.</em></p>
<p>If the Slow Food movement is going to catch on outside the upper-middle class, it&#8217;s going to be a movement about making people want to farm and distribute food locally. Not making them want to drive to consulting gigs in the city, come home, put on <em>Graceland</em>, and cook said locally farmed and distributed food and sit around talking/blogging/referencing David Sedaris. We need more farmers, working less efficiently, in the sense of using less fossil-fuel burning, soil-eroding methods. (<a href="http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/betterplanet/2008/08/13/prince-starts-duel-over-big-food/" target="_blank">See my lionization of Prince Charles, who is admirably blighted with nostalgia for agrarian England.) </a></p>
<p><em>Image: <a href="www.slowfoodnation.org">Slowfoodnation.org </a></em></p>
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