12 Facts About Slow Food

Slow Food is an organization that promotes local food and traditional cooking.

Slow Food began in Italy with the founding of its forerunner organization, Arcigola, in 1986 to resist the opening of a McDonald's near the Spanish Steps in Rome.

In 1989, the founding manifesto of the international Slow Food movement was signed in Paris, France, by delegates from 15 countries.

In 2004, Slow Food opened a University of Gastronomic Sciences at Pollenzo, in Piedmont, and Colorno, in Emilia-Romagna, Italy.

Slow Food Nation was an event organized by Slow Food USA, which celebrates slow and sustainable foods.

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In 2008, Slow Food USA hosted its largest gathering to date dubbed Slow Food Nation in San Francisco.

Beyond the chapters established within the cities in the United States, a number of universities are becoming recognised by Slow Food USA, including the University of Wisconsin at Madison.

Slow Food London is the major campaigning Slow Food body within the UK, responding to every local, national, and European consultation on food, fisheries, and agriculture, and has even been a co-signatory in judicial review against the UK government in regards to food and farming, retaining a leading firm of solicitors pro bono on an ongoing basis.

In 2010, Slow Food International began its independent Slow Wine project with the release of a wine guide.

Today, Slow Food Presidia includes communities that are committed to passing on traditional production techniques and crafts as well as preserving native food and livestock breeds.

Slow Food's aims have been compared to the Arts and Crafts movement's response to 19th-century industrialisation.

Slow Food's stated aim of preserving itself from the "contagion of the multitude" can be seen as elitist by those that consume fast food or are not part of the movement.