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Geoff Andrew's Slow Food Nation Audio Diary for BBC Radio

While attending Slow Food Nation in San Francisco, Geoff Andrews recorded an audio diary for BBC Radio 4's The Food Programme. The diary aired on Suday, 21 Sept as part of the show entited 'Slow Food UK.' Listen to Geoff Andrews discuss the origins and politics of Slow Food @ http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/factual/foodprogramme.shtml .

"Slow down, you're eating too fast" The Globe and Mail reviews the Slow Food Story by Geoff Andrews

ISBN 978-0-7735-3478-0   August 2008

Never before has grocery shopping been so politicized, as a growing number of people (mostly middle-class and educated) shell out dollar after dollar to buy sustainably grown heirloom tomatoes and fair trade espressos. These are the critical consumers, a new class of people who - however jaded by conventional politics - vote with their shopping carts. Whether they realize it or not, their choices have been influenced in part by the global Slow Food movement and its charismatic Italian leader, Carlo Petrini.