GLOBAL 3000 | Slow Food - Taking pleasure in regional produce

"Slow Food" means a lot more than just taking your time over dinner. 20 years ago, Italian Carlo Petrini established a counterculture to the bland and standardized "Fast Food" loved by today's generations.

In the past two decades, the "Slow Food" organisation has attracted more than 80,000 members, many of which meet annually in the Italian town of Turinia, to celebrate their common passion for regional and traditional delicacies. Special dishes and food products -- usually only available in particular regions -- are savoured and shared, tried and tested: spices from Mali, onions from Sicily, or goat's cheese matured in the caves of Bulgaria and produced by farmers or cooperatives. Jörg Geiger, a gastronomer from the southern German town of Göppingen, is an avid follower of "Slow Food". His fruit orchards are a perfect example of this culinary movement, which according to a German research institute for the future, will have a significant impact on the way tomorrow's generation eats.

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