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<title><![CDATA[L'insalata di Slowfood]]></title>
<link>http://lalineadellinutile.wordpress.com/2009/11/29/linsalata-di-slowfood/</link>
<pubDate>Sun, 29 Nov 2009 11:55:10 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>maurozz</dc:creator>
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<description><![CDATA[Pare ovvio che abbia preso in prestito la foto da National Geographic ... Il mango di ieri mattina e]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Zweiteiler: „Coffee to go“ vs. „Slow Food“ Part 2]]></title>
<link>http://sarageisler.wordpress.com/2009/11/21/zweiteiler-%e2%80%9ecoffee-to-go%e2%80%9c-vs-%e2%80%9eslow-food%e2%80%9c-part-2/</link>
<pubDate>Sat, 21 Nov 2009 10:53:35 +0000</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[Parallel zum Vormarsch Fastfood-zugehöriger Produkte wie Coffee to go oder Uncle Ben&#8217;s Heiss a]]></description>
<content:encoded><![CDATA[<div class='snap_preview'><p>Parallel zum Vormarsch Fastfood-zugehöriger Produkte wie <em><a href="http://sarageisler.wordpress.com/2009/11/14/zweiteiler-coffee-to-go-vs-slow-food-part-1/">Coffee to go</a> </em>oder <em><a title="Uncle Ben's Heiss auf Reis Indisch Madras Curry - Fix- / Fertiggerichte" href="http://www.dooyoo.de/fix-fertiggerichte/uncle-ben-s-heiss-auf-reis-madras-curry/1341624/">Uncle Ben&#8217;s Heiss auf Reis Indisch Madras Curry</a> -</em>Fertiggerichte entwickelte sich ein völlig konträrer Trend: <em>Slow Food.</em></p>
<p><strong>Wie das Essen entschleunigt wurde<a href="http://www.google.com/imgres?imgurl=http://www.indybay.org/uploads/2009/07/08/slow_food.jpg&#38;imgrefurl=http://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2009/07/08/18606352.php&#38;usg=__zaSf-hxu_ONQ7CDYZpsZ8dui7NI=&#38;h=441&#38;w=539&#38;sz=37&#38;hl=de&#38;start=2&#38;itbs=1&#38;tbnid=u7OA4h4DDkgqGM:&#38;tbnh=108&#38;tbnw=132&#38;prev=/images%3Fq%3Dslow%2Bfood%26hl%3Dde%26sa%3DG"><img class="alignright size-medium wp-image-50" title="A Taste of Slow" src="http://sarageisler.wordpress.com/files/2009/11/slow_food.jpg?w=300" alt="" width="300" height="245" /></a><br />
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<p>1986 wurde an der Spanischen Treppe in Rom eine <em>Mc-Donalds</em>-Filiale gegründet. Diese Eröffnung missfiel besonders dem Italiener <a href="http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carlo_Petrini">Carlo Petrini</a>, welcher daraufhin kurzerhand die Oranisation <em>Slow Food</em> gründete, die sich auch „Internationale Bewegung zur Wahrung des Rechts auf Genuss“ nennt. Ziel ist es, im Zeitalter des universellen Tempowahnsinns das &#8220;Geruhsame, Sinnliche und Bodenständige&#8221; zu bewahren. So sieht sich die Bewegung  nicht so sehr als Widersacher von Fastfood, sondern als organisierter Bekämpfer von <em>Fast Life.</em></p>
<p><strong>Buono, pulito e giusto – gut, sauber und fair</strong></p>
<p>Drei Elemente bilden den Maßstab von <em>Slow Food:</em> Essen soll <strong>gut, sauber </strong>und <strong>fair</strong> sein.<br />
Mit jedem <a href="http://video.google.com/videosearch?client=safari&#38;rls=en&#38;q=gammelfleischskandal&#38;oe=UTF-8&#38;um=1&#38;ie=UTF-8&#38;ei=XIIFS9eNF-S2jAeMz_3CCw&#38;sa=X&#38;oi=video_result_group&#38;ct=title&#38;resnum=5&#38;ved=0CBoQqwQwBA#client=safari&#38;rls=en&#38;q=gammelfleischskandal&#38;oe=UTF-8&#38;um=1&#38;ie=UTF-8&#38;ei=XIIFS9eNF-S2jAeMz_3CCw&#38;sa=X&#38;oi=video_result_group&#38;ct=title&#38;resnum=5&#38;ved=0CBoQqwQwBA&#38;view=2&#38;qvid=gammelfleischskandal&#38;vid=-2913612201002380473">Gammelfleisch-Skandal</a> steigt der Unmut über Lebensmittel von der Supermarkt-Stange. Man kann schon froh sein, zu wissen, aus welchem Kontinent sein frisch erworbenes Radieschen kommt. Durch Informationsarbeit, Verkostungen, Geschmacksschulungen, Veranstaltungen usw. will die Non-Profit-Organisation <em>Slow Food </em>ein neues Bewusstsein für Qualität schaffen.<br />
Wer zwischen dem 25. und 29. November zufällig in München ist, kann sich auf der <em><a href="http://www.food-life.de/">Food &#38; Life</a></em>- Messe den <em><a href="http://www.slowfood.de/tipps__foerderer/messen_maerkte/food__life/">Slow Food Markt für gute Lebensmittel</a> </em>schmecken lassen. Testen kann man das <em>Slow Food- </em>Konzept allerdings auch in seiner eigenen Küche. Alle Jamie Olivers unter uns dürfen sich gerne an <em><a href="http://www.slowfood.de/tipps__foerderer/kochrezepte/">Slow Food-</a></em><a href="http://www.slowfood.de/tipps__foerderer/kochrezepte/"> Rezepten</a> versuchen.</p>
<div id="attachment_51" class="wp-caption alignleft" style="width: 310px"><a href="http://www.google.com/imgres?imgurl=http://www.quality-report.de/wp-content/uploads/2009/03/slow_food_logo.jpg&#38;imgrefurl=http://www.quality-report.de/tag/slow-food/&#38;h=300&#38;w=300&#38;sz=54&#38;tbnid=_i9nESRMDOGwkM:&#38;tbnh=116&#38;tbnw=116&#38;prev=/images%3Fq%3Dslow%2Bfood%2Blogo&#38;hl=de&#38;usg=__8hXmVN9swtJs6QYMs6Pufxo-3oU=&#38;ei=794LS7jyI46knQPk_cGJBA&#38;sa=X&#38;oi=image_result&#38;resnum=1&#38;ct=image&#38;ved=0CAcQ9QEwAA"><img class="size-full wp-image-51" title="slow food logo" src="http://sarageisler.wordpress.com/files/2009/11/slow_food_logo.jpg" alt="" width="300" height="300" /></a><p class="wp-caption-text">Die Schnecke als Vorhängeschild</p></div>
<p>Die Wertschätzung der <strong>Geselligkeit</strong> ist ein weiteres grundlegendes Prinzip von <em>Slow Food.</em> Ob gemeinsames Frühstück, ein ausuferndes Familienfest oder einfach den Nachbarn zum Mittagessen einladen:<br />
Essen soll gefeiert worden.<br />
Dieses Konzept schmeckt: <em>Slow Food</em> ist in mittlerweile über 100 Ländern mit mehr als 80.000 Mitgliedern vertreten.</p>
<p><strong>Mein Senf dazu</strong></p>
<p><strong> </strong>Gegen bewusstes und genussvolles Essen kann man ja eigentlich nichts haben. Wie umsetzbar und vorallem tauglich das Konzept im Alltag ist, muss man ausprobieren. In der Realität spielen Tiefkühlgermknödel in der 30-minütigen Mittagspause dann wohl doch meistens eine dominierende Rolle. Der Gedanke, eine weltweite Kampagne für Genuss und Sich-Zeit-Nehmen aus dem Boden zu stampfen, bleibt trotzdem oder gerade deshalb, bewundernswürdig.</p>
<p><strong>Fazit: </strong>Lobenswert mit Vorbildcharakter</p>
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<title><![CDATA[Cronaca "Vera"]]></title>
<link>http://ortodicarta.wordpress.com/2009/11/10/cronaca-vera/</link>
<pubDate>Tue, 10 Nov 2009 09:29:20 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>Nicola</dc:creator>
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<description><![CDATA[Il 15 ottobre il nostro eroe, il paladino del produzione e del consumo alimentare sano e sostenibile]]></description>
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<p>Il 15 ottobre il nostro eroe, il paladino del produzione e del consumo alimentare sano e sostenibile, Michael Pollan deve andare per una <a href="http://www.foodpolitics.com/2009/10/todays-scandal-industrial-agriculture-vs-michael-pollan/">lezione al Cal Poly</a>.<br />
Immediatamente scatta la <a href="http://www.newtimesslo.com/news/3411/controversy-erupts-over-michael-pollans-poly-lecture/">rappresaglia</a>: uno dei maggiori sponsor dell&#8217;istituto minaccia di ritirare la prevista donazione di 500.000 $ se la lezione non verrà bloccata o trasformata in un faccia a faccia.<br />
Il seguito è un <a href="http://scholarsatrisk.nyu.edu/News/Article_Detail.php?art_id=1810">casino</a>, lettere, minacce, scuse, senatori inalberati, paventati licenziamenti, e collezioni di articoli vari.<br />
Ora.<br />
Il Problema non è Pollan che, per quanto ottimo giornalista, oratore e godibilissimo scrittore rimane pur sempre un po&#8217; un “fighetto” da upper class americana (<em>e poi, sia detto, “Il dilemma dell&#8217;onnivoro” letto dall&#8217;Italia lascia un po&#8217; perplessi&#8230; e vagamente orgogliosi dell&#8217;essere la repubblica delle banane che siamo</em>).<br />
Tanto meno lo sono i magnati delle major alimentari americane o i <a href="http://www.american.com/archive/2009/july/the-omnivore2019s-delusion-against-the-agri-intellectuals">“rudi” contadini della corn-belt</a>, dallo sputazzo di tabacco pronto, il cui appezzamento più piccolo equivale circa alla superficie dell&#8217;area metropolitana di Milano.<br />
Il problema non è la <a href="http://www.cargill.com/">Cargill</a> o <a href="http://www.polyfacefarms.com/">Joel Salatin</a> (<em>oddio, no, il problema è anche quello&#8230;</em>).<br />
Il problema è&#8230; ve lo vedete un casino del genere per <a href="http://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carlo_Petrini">Carlo Petrini</a>?</p>
<p>Ok. Mi si potrà dire che le situazioni non sono paragonabili (<em>così come non lo è il sistema alimentare presentato ne “Il dilemma dell&#8217;onnivoro” con quello italiano, almeno non completamente</em>).<br />
Mi si potrà dire che qui abbiamo un&#8217;altra cultura dell&#8217;alimentazione ed un altro mercato agro-alimentare (<em>qualcuno mi spiega perché alla Coop. Di Chivasso, oggi 9 novembre, le melanzane costavano meno dei broccoli?</em>). Che da noi le nicchie di qualità sono preservate e mantenute, c&#8217;è un riconoscimento del prodotto di qualità e dell&#8217;eccellenza italiana e quindi Petrini non può essere visto come “antagonista” del sistema agrario-imprenditoriale ma come coadiutore, come “sponsor” del sistema naturale e sano.</p>
<p>Ok.<br />
No, in definitiva il problema è&#8230; com&#8217;è che, in America, quelli sono argomenti di discussione, di scontro e di confronto a cielo aperto e da noi no?<br />
Ok&#8230; da noi non c&#8217;è questo problema&#8230; noi, il carciofo rosso di S. Erasmo l&#8217;abbiamo messo sotto la tutela di Slow Food. Ora non corre più rischi, anzi probabilmente l&#8217;intera isola di S. Erasmo (<em>e l&#8217;inquinamento di Margherera sedimentato nelle sue sabbie</em>) verrà completamente colonizzato di carciofi rossi&#8230;<br />
Quindi perché dovrebbero esserci movimenti di opinione con personaggi che promuovano un modo “diverso” di produrre alimenti, politiche agrarie più consapevoli? C&#8217;è già tutto e, sorpresa, è già anche un mercato consolidato!<br />
Ma non solo, grazie al lavoro che stiamo facendo sulla qualità e l&#8217;eccellenza (<em>ci piace un sacco questo termine&#8230; ormai, nelle langhe, quando Piero incontra Giulio sul trattore si inchinano esclamando “eccellenza!”</em>) il sistema lo stiamo esportando in tutta Europa!<br />
Sicuri? </p>
<p>Beh&#8230;<br />
<a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2009/07/17/business/global/17farms.html?_r=2&#38;sq=europe%20farm%20aid&#38;st=cse&#38;scp=1&#38;pagewanted=all">Per la prima volta i paesi membri della Comunità Europea hanno dovuto rendere pubblici i beneficiari delle sovvenzioni EU all&#8217;agricoltura</a>. Un terzo non va neanche a finire ad aziende strettamente agricole.<br />
Ci sono milioni che vengono spesi in ditte che hanno vagamente a che fare con l&#8217;agricoltura e che, soprattutto, supportano tutto tranne un sistema di produzione agro-alimentare sostenibile (<em>in cui possiamo anche ascrivere il benedetto carciofo di S. Erasmo&#8230; ma non obbligatoriamente, per la teoria del “<a href="http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/environment/article6844303.ece">che crepi il panda!</a>” e della migrazione delle specie vegetali</em>).<br />
Tra i più fortunati beneficiari dei fondi Europei per l&#8217;agricoltura possiamo annoverare alcuni  simpatici conglomerati affaristici tra cui il colosso dei pollifici francese Groupe Doux e buona parte degli zuccherifici europei. Né i primi, tanto meno i secondi hanno nulla a che fare con l&#8217;agricoltura&#8230; semplicemente preparano dei semilavorati e li commercializzano grazie ad una fitta rete di sussudiarie e di appalti&#8230; ma tant&#8217;è che incassano i fondi per l&#8217;agricoltura. Per capire bene come funziona il meccanismo l&#8217;esempio degli orsetti di gomma e delle girelle di Liquirizia della <a href="http://www.haribo.com/planet/sprachauswahl.php">Haribò</a> è emblematico.<br />
La Haribò ha preso 332.000 € di sussidi per coprire la differenza di costo dello zucchero europeo da quello del resto del mondo. Se la Haribò avesse comprato lo zucchero, chessò, del venezuela l&#8217;avrebbe pagato meno di quello Europeo quindi l&#8217;Europa deve rifondergli i “danni” (che, io, sciocco, pensavo avessero già caricato sul prezzo dei loro pezzetti di gomma colorati&#8230; che sciocco&#8230;). Ha un senso!<br />
Così come hanno un senso i 148.000€ dati alla ditta di catering <a href="http://www.ligabue.it/pages/en/home.php">Ligabue</a> di Venezia nel 2008  (<a href="http://ortolanodilaguna.blogspot.com/">Michele</a> sei avvertito!) come sussidi all&#8217;esportazione di zuccheri e prodotti caseari a bordo di lussuose navi da crociera, l&#8217;unico caso in cui invece dei container sono state usate comode confezioni monodose.</p>
<p>Che bisogno abbiamo in Europa di qualcuno che dica che le sovvenzioni all&#8217;agricoltura fanno più danni che altro al sistema di produzione agro-alimentare? Che bisogno abbiamo di riconoscere l&#8217;agricoltura come produzione di puro e semplice cibo quando tanto abbiamo un &#8220;Mercato&#8221; per il lumpenproletariat ed il carciofo rosso di S. Erasmo per i fini conoscitori del “terroir”?<br />
Che bisogno c&#8217;è di fare delle discussioni serie sul sistema alimentare europeo quando sono ormai anni che non si produce più cibo ma utility finanziarie?</p>
<p>DISCLAIMER . Non ho assolutamente nulla contro il carciofo rosso di S. Erasmo ma è il primo presidio slow food che mi viene in mente per colpa di <a href="http://ortolanodilaguna.blogspot.com/">Michele</a>&#8230; prendetevela con lui <img src='http://s.wordpress.com/wp-includes/images/smilies/icon_biggrin.gif' alt=':D' class='wp-smiley' /> </p>
<p>In ogni caso&#8230; io faccio il tifo per loro:<br />
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<title><![CDATA[A Carlo Petrini il premio San Martino]]></title>
<link>http://fidest.wordpress.com/2009/11/08/a-carlo-petrini-il-premio-san-martino/</link>
<pubDate>Sun, 08 Nov 2009 07:16:04 +0000</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[Parma. Il premio San Martino a Carlo Petrini, il presidente di Slow Food e dell’Università di Scienz]]></description>
<content:encoded><![CDATA[<div class='snap_preview'><p style="text-align:justify;font-family:arial;font-size:15px;"><a href="http://fidest.wordpress.com/files/2009/11/carlo-petrini-il-premio-san-martino.jpg"><img class="alignleft size-medium wp-image-20251" title="Carlo Petrini il premio San Martino" src="http://fidest.wordpress.com/files/2009/11/carlo-petrini-il-premio-san-martino.jpg?w=300" alt="Carlo Petrini il premio San Martino" width="230" height="101" /></a>Parma. Il premio San Martino a Carlo Petrini, il presidente di Slow Food e dell’Università di Scienze Gastronomiche. Riconoscimento che, secondo la Provincia, se &#8220;l’è aggiudicato sul campo, per le battaglie a favore della biodiversità&#8221;.  Petrini parla all’incontro promosso dalla Provincia di Parma in occasione del premio San Martino e dedicato agli “alleati della biodiversità”. Sono gli agricoltori custodi che Petrini chiama “ eroi, che fanno un lavoro di immenso significato” . La loro è una ricerca per recuperare e non perdere l’infinita varietà di frutti, animali e vegetali di cui il Parmense era ricco. Si parla del tacchino di Parma e Piacenza, della pera nobile, della mela cotogna, dell’uva termalina nei discorsi di Enzo Melegari, presidente dell’associazione, di Angela Frati, Paola Gorgatti e Denny Bini, agricoltori custodi. Ne parla il vicepresidente della Provincia di Parma Pier Luigi Ferrari che affida a Petrini la pecora cornigliese, che per il latte, la lana ma anche carne potrebbe essere un futuro presidio. “Il tema biodiversità  è per questa Provincia un tema sentito – ha detto Ferrari – ha protagonisti che ci credono, che stanno aumentando, anche fra tante difficoltà che la crisi ha acuito. Occorre investirci ed esserci”. E’ agli agricoltori custodi che Petrini dedica il premio che gli viene consegnato dal Presidente della Provincia Vincenzo Bernazzoli. Una pergamena e un tabarro che sorprende il presidente di Slow Food, ma che, dice, già indossa per proteggersi dal freddo. “Ci sentiamo coinvolti da questi temi sui quali cerchiamo di dare il nostro contributo non solo per le modalità in cui si produce e per la qualità dei prodotti, ma cercando anche di sostenere momenti che aumentino la consapevolezza collettiva – dice Bernazzoli.  Per il Prescindete della Provincia è una battaglia per il futuro del territorio, per creare una cultura nuova senza la quale non è possibile reggere, nemmeno nella capitale dell’agroalimentare. Il premio che la Provincia di Parma ha dato oggi a a Petrini è dunque un riconoscimento a un compagno di strada, “una scelta naturale” ha detto Bernazzoli che vuole sottolineare il radicamento con la terra e l’orizzonte culturale e valoriale che Petrini propone con il suo impegno. (carlo petrini)</p>
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<title><![CDATA[Increase your standard of living]]></title>
<link>http://adonis49.wordpress.com/2009/11/07/increase-your-standard-of-living/</link>
<pubDate>Sat, 07 Nov 2009 16:55:41 +0000</pubDate>
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<p>How much your standard of living should increase so that you may enjoy a sandwich of falafel for $10?  It is not how much you generate money but how far it stretches.</p>
<p>Sir, learn to slow down your investment money: it is man who generate money. Finance and business are too important to be left to the exclusive experts in finance and doing business as usual contended the British economist Schumacher in his classic book &#8220;Small is beautiful&#8221;; he expressed the necessity for mankind to rediscover a set of values of higher exigencies than just economy.</p>
<p>In liberal capitalism money came to be viewed as an abstract entity that was represented by derivative products that have no practical meanings even to the experts in finance. Thus, the world was glutted with 50 trillion dollars in paper derivatives that were badly managed and controlled simply because this wealth was fundamentally fictitious until the Big Crash; then fiction translated into miseries.</p>
<p>Since 1920&#8217;s, money was perceived as an instrument to gain more money or &#8220;money generates money&#8221; rapidly and easily. Investors had no idea who is manipulating their money or how: they reached the threshold that investors didn&#8217;t care who is managing their money or making it fructify as long as fictitious bank statements told them that their bank account has swollen a bit more. This fictitious wealth didn&#8217;t represent accurately real activities around the world of economies.</p>
<p>The same process of abstraction was applied to agro-economy. The founder of Slow Food, Carlo Petrini, wrote: &#8220;If you use your money as chemical fertilizers then your quick product grows artificially; the land will require more chemical fertilizers the next year for reduced quantity.  This is not a durable method for fructifying your investment or for saving your land of depletion and of quick death.  Now, if you use your money as natural fertilizer by slowing down the output for a durable and natural recycling of the land and organic product then there is chance for a durable economy based on wholesome and lasting sustainable process for healthy products.&#8221;</p>
<p>Sir, if you still have money to invest then look around the businesses in your community.  You need to do your due diligence to get acquainted with the employees and personnel.  You need to know that the products are wholesome and sustainable; that the owners and managers of the business know their business, the products, and the needs of the community. You have to make sure that your community is patronizing the products and that the workers are enjoying their jobs, supportive of the products, and working in a healthy and safe working environment.</p>
<p>Sir, learn to slow down your investment money: it is man who generate money.  You need to become an activist for the welfare of your community.  Pressure the government and financial institutions into aiding your local businesses and local banks that serve the community.  Pressure the your law makers to enact laws that prohibit local banks into lending money to &#8220;fictitious&#8221; non-local institutions that you have no idea or control over their transactions.</p>
<p>Sir, pressure your local banks to include social experts and community activists to the board of directors and in positions to control the transactions to make sure that another trend of &#8220;fictitious money&#8221; is not spiraling and taking a life of its own.</p>
<p>Sir, make sure that all these control and management tools are firmly established and then you may claim that &#8220;the market will be able to stabilize seasonal or emerging fluctuations&#8221;, that you may enjoy a sound and wholesome economy that caters to the need and survival of the community well being.</p>
<p>Woody Tasch in his book &#8220;Inquiries into the nature of slow money&#8221; criss-crossed the country for six months and noticed strong latent demands for alternative solutions; he wrote &#8220;people comprehend that for food to have tangible values then agriculture must be diversified and offer advantages to the environment, health, job creation, and community security.&#8221; Tasch has started Slow Money Alliance, a series of lending institutions composed of people in agricultures, in agro-business, donators and investors for soil restoration and products grown naturally. Tasch is encouraging philanthropic institutions with an estimated 500 billions invested in stocks to re-invest into 503 (c) 3i (the i is for integral economy) where the money is not intended for profit and not taxed by the Federal government. Philanthropic money need to be re-invested into social fairness in health, safety, and equity.</p>
<p>Slow Money Alliance is applying the new economical paradigm by investing in small agricultural and food enterprises so that thousands can recover jobs in already existing family lands, biological products, and the restaurants of Slow Food.</p>
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<link>http://grassrootsgourmet.net/2009/11/04/take-it-slow-face-the-food/</link>
<pubDate>Wed, 04 Nov 2009 17:42:44 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>Grassroots Gourmet</dc:creator>
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<description><![CDATA[Why Slow Food? This non-profit organization has made it a top priority to combat the ways of fast-fo]]></description>
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<p><font face="american typewriter" size="2.5"><i>Why Slow Food?</i><br />
This non-profit organization has made it a top priority to combat the ways of fast-food and fast life that have completely engulfed modern society&#8230; Something that many in the Western world have integrated so intensely into their lives that they don&#8217;t even realize the consequences of their consumption. </p>
<p>Now, I hate to be preachy, but, not only is fast-food ultimately unsatisfying (we&#8217;ve all hugged a toilet bowl), the negative repercussions of eating that quadruple bypass burger out<strong><em>WEIGH</em></strong> the 30 seconds of enjoyment one gets while eating fast foods.</p>
<div id="attachment_879" class="wp-caption aligncenter" style="width: 310px"><a rel="attachment wp-att-879" href="http://grassrootsgourmet.net/2009/11/04/take-it-slow-face-the-food/anti-mcdonalds-ads/"><img class="size-medium wp-image-879" title="anti-mcdonalds-ads" src="http://grassrootgourmet.wordpress.com/files/2009/11/anti-mcdonalds-ads.jpg?w=300" alt="anti-mcdonalds-ads" width="300" height="282" /></a><p class="wp-caption-text">A little too much lovin&#39;</p></div>
<p>Almost 30 years after its initial founding in 1989 by Carlo Petrini, the Slow Food movement has become a cornerstone non-profit organization that works in Europe and abroad to preserve sustainability and ethics within the food industry. Sadly the reason it was ultimately started was in protest of a McDonald&#8217;s opening near the Spanish Steps in Rome&#8230; but if anyone has been to Italy, McDonald&#8217;s locations are beginning to eat that country alive&#8230;.</p>
<p>NONETHELESS the Slow Food movement has succeeded in communicating its goal to promote<strong> Ecogastronomy</strong></p>
<blockquote><p>Ecogastronomy: A branch of the ecology movement and as well as the culinary side of the anti-globalization movement.</p></blockquote>
<p>Not only is the movement against fast food consumption, both on a personal and societal level, but also the production of these products. How much energy do we waste in producing mass amounts of food that will ultimately go to waste? Where has the culture behind cuisine vanished to?</p>
<p>I speak from the American perspective, but as a general society our relative loss of interest in food, and its origins may be one of the connections to our increasing body masses. When we no longer feel any real connections to the foods we eat, we break the chain in our relationship to the environment, our personal cultures and histories, and our health.</p>
<p>A quick exercise: Open your refrigerators for a moment. How many of the products that blankly sit on the shelves have readily identifiable ingredients? (if you answer is: &#8220;I only keep produce in the frigde&#8221;) Fine, how many of you know where that produce came from? Was that zombie GMO tomato grown in Mexico 3 months ago or was it grown organically by a local farm?</p>
<p>If you are interested in this subject and would like to join your local Slow Food chapter, become a member <a href="http://store.slowfood.com/store_com/welcome.lasso">Here!!!!!!!</a> </p>
<p>The movement has become wildly influential in Europe and abroad, with over <b>100,000</b> members in <b>132</b> countries, but together we can help it grow even further!</p>
<p>In the chaotic and unpredictable world we live in, it feels nice to be a part of something positive.</p>
<p>So eat well, and please, chew slowly <img src='http://s.wordpress.com/wp-includes/images/smilies/icon_wink.gif' alt=';-)' class='wp-smiley' /> </font></p>
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<title><![CDATA[Sir, Slow down your investment money]]></title>
<link>http://adonis49.wordpress.com/2009/10/29/sir-slow-down-your-investment-money/</link>
<pubDate>Thu, 29 Oct 2009 08:45:59 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>adonis49</dc:creator>
<guid>http://adonis49.wordpress.com/2009/10/29/sir-slow-down-your-investment-money/</guid>
<description><![CDATA[Slow down your investment money: Stupid; (Oct. 28, 2009) Sir, learn to slow down your investment mon]]></description>
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<p>Sir, learn to slow down your investment money: it is man who generates money. Finance and business are too important to be left to the exclusive experts in finance and doing business as usual contended the British economist Schumacher in his classic book &#8220;Small is beautiful&#8221;; he expressed the necessity for mankind to rediscover a set of values of higher exigencies than just economy.</p>
<p>In liberal capitalism money came to be viewed as an abstract entity that was represented by derivative products that have no practical meanings even to the experts in finance. Thus, the world was glutted with 50 trillion dollars in paper derivatives that were badly managed and controlled simply because this wealth was fundamentally fictitious until the Big Crash; then fiction translated into miseries.</p>
<p>Since 1920&#8217;s, money was perceived as an instrument to gain more money or &#8220;money generates money&#8221; rapidly and easily. Investors had no idea who is manipulating their money or how: they reached the threshold that investors didn&#8217;t care who is managing their money or making it fructify as long as fictitious bank statements told them that their bank account has swollen a bit more. This fictitious wealth didn&#8217;t represent accurately real activities around the world of economies.</p>
<p>The same process of abstraction was applied to agro-economy. The founder of Slow Food, Carlo Petrini, wrote: &#8220;If you use your money as chemical fertilizers then your quick product grows artificially; the land will require more chemical fertilizers the next year for reduced quantity.  This is not a durable method for fructifying your investment or for saving your land of depletion and of quick death.  Now, if you use your money as natural fertilizer by slowing down the output for a durable and natural recycling of the land and organic product then there is chance for a durable economy based on wholesome and lasting sustainable process for healthy products.&#8221;</p>
<p>Sir, if you still have money to invest then look around the businesses in your community.  You need to do your due diligence to get acquainted with the employees and personnel.  You need to know that the products are wholesome and sustainable; that the owners and managers of the business know their business, the products, and the needs of the community. You have to make sure that your community is patronizing the products and that the workers are enjoying their jobs, supportive of the products, and working in a healthy and safe working environment.</p>
<p>Sir, learn to slow down your investment money: it is man who generate money.  You need to become an activist for the welfare of your community.  Pressure the government and financial institutions into aiding your local businesses and local banks that serve the community.  Pressure the your law makers to enact laws that prohibit local banks into lending money to &#8220;fictitious&#8221; non-local institutions that you have no idea or control over their transactions.</p>
<p>Sir, pressure your local banks to include social experts and community activists to the board of directors and in positions to control the transactions to make sure that another trend of &#8220;fictitious money&#8221; is not spiraling and taking a life of its own.</p>
<p>Sir, make sure that all these control and management tools are firmly established and then you may claim that &#8220;the market will be able to stabilize seasonal or emerging fluctuations&#8221;, that you may enjoy a sound and wholesome economy that caters to the need and survival of the community well being.</p>
<p>Woody Tasch in his book &#8220;Inquiries into the nature of slow money&#8221; criss-crossed the country for six months and noticed strong latent demands for alternative solutions; he wrote &#8220;people comprehend that for food to have tangible values then agriculture must be diversified and offer advantages to the environment, health, job creation, and community security.&#8221; Tasch has started Slow Money Alliance, a series of lending institutions composed of people in agricultures, in agro-business, donators and investors for soil restoration and products grown naturally. Tasch is encouraging philanthropic institutions with an estimated 500 billions invested in stocks to re-invest into 503 (c) 3i (the i is for integral economy) where the money is not intended for profit and not taxed by the Federal government. Philanthropic money need to be re-invested into social fairness in health, safety, and equity.</p>
<p>Slow Money Alliance is applying the new economical paradigm by investing in small agricultural and food enterprises so that thousands can recover jobs in already existing family lands, biological products, and the restaurants of Slow Food.</p>
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<title><![CDATA[Slow Fooder Carlo Petrini supports soft raw milk cheese approval in Australia]]></title>
<link>http://thebovine.wordpress.com/2009/10/27/slow-fooder-carlo-petrini-supports-soft-raw-milk-cheese-approval-in-australia/</link>
<pubDate>Tue, 27 Oct 2009 12:14:32 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>thebovine</dc:creator>
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<div class="wp-caption aligncenter" style="width: 480px"><em> </em><em><img src="http://i363.photobucket.com/albums/oo79/john_dxx/lynne_tietzel_wideweb__470x4200.jpg" alt="" width="470" height="420" /></em><p class="wp-caption-text">Lynne Tietzel says cheesemakers must control production to ensure safety. Photo by Domino Postiglione</p></div>
<p>&#8220;&#8230;Slow Food warrior Carlo Petrini has thrown his weight behind the campaign to allow raw milk cheese to be made in Australia.</p>
<p>Here for the Sydney International Food Festival, he urged a relaxation of the tough rules, saying the local industry is being left behind.</p>
<p>The man who defended Rome&#8217;s Spanish Steps against the presence of McDonald&#8217;s in the 1980s, and founded Slow Food, believes a consumer campaign would result in change. His followers in Australia are drawing up battle plans and promise a campaign to tear up the restrictions.</p>
<p>&#8221;We are being left behind by the rest of the planet,&#8221; local Slow Food campaign co-ordinator Michael Croft says.<!--more--></p>
<p>Petrini added the US is ahead of Australia, noting &#8216;&#8217;some nice cheeses&#8221; are being made there since bans on raw milk usage in half the US states were lifted during the past decade.</p>
<p>Many artisan cheeses sold in Europe are made from raw milk but calls to allow it here for soft cheeses have always fallen on deaf ears.</p>
<p>Australian regulations are under review and the recommendations are highly anticipated.</p>
<p>Petrini&#8217;s supporters and some cheesemakers are likely to be disappointed.</p>
<p>Australian food regulators are proposing to maintain their tough stance. More than that, they will propose the states are stripped of their current power to make their own rules over selling unpasteurised milk for consumption by humans.</p>
<p>Raw milk cheese is made from milk that has not been subjected to pasteurisation or an equivalent process to remove bacteria that can cause listeriosis, typhoid fever, tuberculosis, diphtheria and brucellosis. Just how high the risk is and how much flavour is lost through pasteurisation is a long debate well argued during the past few years.</p>
<p>Lydia Buchtmann is the spokeswoman for Food Standards Australia, which draws up the regulations. Buchtmann says assessing the dangers of unpasteurised milk to Australian consumers is difficult because there is not much of it around.</p>
<p>During the past 10 years, fewer than 10 people have fallen ill from drinking raw milk on farms, Buchtmann says.</p>
<p>She likens the argument to that for polio prevention. Although the disease had been eradicated in Australia, that did not justify ending vaccination.</p>
<p>Imported raw milk cheese was banned from Australia in 1996 with the introduction of a national food authority. Exemptions have since crept in.</p>
<p>About 600 tonnes of unpasteurised cheese is imported each year: emmentaler, gruyere and sbrinz from Switzerland; parmigiano-reggiano, grana padano, pecorino romano, asiago and montasio from Italy; and, in 2004, roquefort from France&#8230;&#8221;</p>
<p><em><a href="http://www.smh.com.au/news/entertainment/good-living/soft-cheese-debate-rubs-raw/2009/10/26/1256405343201.html" target="_blank">Read it all here on the Sydney Morning Herald</a></em></p>
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<title><![CDATA[Slow Food and the War on Water]]></title>
<link>http://hauteh20.wordpress.com/2009/10/18/slow-food-and-the-war-on-water/</link>
<pubDate>Sun, 18 Oct 2009 10:14:56 +0000</pubDate>
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<guid>http://hauteh20.wordpress.com/2009/10/18/slow-food-and-the-war-on-water/</guid>
<description><![CDATA[  Carlo Petrini the Co Founder of the Slow Food movement held a talk at the Opera House?   His point]]></description>
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<p style="text-align:center;">Carlo Petrini the Co Founder of the Slow Food movement held a talk at the Opera House?   His points were many and varied but a suprising statistic on the average amount spent on food has decreased from 30% in 1970 to 12 % in 2009.</p>
<p>He raised the fact that about 13% is currently spent on mobiles and Iphone and that if the % spent could be reduced on talking it could be spent on organic food and supporting local producers.</p>
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<p>Carlo warned of the wars that are already being waged on water, and that oil is not what we should be wary of. The waste of water, the overproduction of food and the over use of chemicals is a large contributing factor in the war on water.</p>
<p>What will this mean for Haute H2O ™ and the transportation of water around the world. Will local water sources become the premium product and imported water a thing of the past.</p>
<p>Does the same logic that applies to food miles and Carbon Credits apply to Haute H2O ™ ?</p>
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<title><![CDATA[Embracing my Inner Gastronome]]></title>
<link>http://grassrootsgourmet.net/2009/10/12/embracing-my-inner-gastronome/</link>
<pubDate>Mon, 12 Oct 2009 15:59:35 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>Grassroots Gourmet</dc:creator>
<guid>http://grassrootsgourmet.net/2009/10/12/embracing-my-inner-gastronome/</guid>
<description><![CDATA[Since being accepted to the Italian Gastronomy and Tourism program at the University of Gastronomic ]]></description>
<content:encoded><![CDATA[<div class='snap_preview'><p><font face="american typewriter" size="2.5">Since being accepted to the Italian Gastronomy and Tourism program at the University of Gastronomic Sciences, I have been doing some serious research on the school, the past and current students, and generally the life I should anticipate for myself in the coming year.</span></p>
<p><span>I have been absolutely thrilled at the things I have found. I have come across some really informative and interesting blogs from other students that have done the same program that I will soon do. Two examples of these blogs can be found at:</p>
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<li><a href="http://iambiccafe.blogspot.com">Iambic Cafe</a></li>
<li><a href="http://www.dongenova.com">Don Genova</a></li>
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<p>I have been making my best efforts to get into touch with these people before my program starts because I have already picked up on some important pointers on how to properly go about eating on my program. For example, on study trips we can expect to eat a lot of food, but not a lot of fibre, so they suggest we bring fiber supplements to eat along with regular meals to keep our digestive tracts happy. Who would have figured??</p>
<p>Anyway, here is a little more information from the website, An example Itinerary of a study trip we might be doing in Crete, Greece.</p>
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<li><a href="http://unisg.it/download/viaggi_didattici/viaggio_didattico_creta.pdf">Greece Study Trip</a></li>
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<p>And here is a list of the classes I&#8217;ll be taking:</p>
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<li><a href="http://unisg.it/pagine/eng/programs/master_in_italian_gastronomy_and_tourism/courses.lasso">Courses</a></li>
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<p>Anyway, I will be using Grassroots Gourmet to truly get into the nitty gritty of my studies in the next year and I have a very good feeling that I won&#8217;t be short on writing material. I even read one Iambic Cafe&#8217;s blog that we get to have an face to face session with Slow-Food founder, Carlo Petrini!! That man changed my LIFE!</p>
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<p><span>Sometimes I have to pinch my arm to make sure all of this is actually happening.</span></font></p>
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<title><![CDATA[slow. down.]]></title>
<link>http://sixsuperfluousdimensions.wordpress.com/2009/10/10/slow-down/</link>
<pubDate>Sat, 10 Oct 2009 13:29:43 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>sixsuperfluousdimensions</dc:creator>
<guid>http://sixsuperfluousdimensions.wordpress.com/2009/10/10/slow-down/</guid>
<description><![CDATA[Some people think the world is going to hell in a handbasket; there&#8217;s a seemingly uncontrollab]]></description>
<content:encoded><![CDATA[<div class='snap_preview'><p>Some people think the world is going to hell in a handbasket; there&#8217;s a seemingly uncontrollable financial system that no one understands, unwinnable wars, NASA is bombing the moon,  everything gives you cancer, etc. AND YET.  I just don&#8217;t see it.  All over the world are thousands of people working together to do really excellent and meaningful work.  I got heroes up to my eyes, people!  <a href="http://www.slowfoodusa.org/index.php">Slow Food</a> is one of my favorites these days.  The link sends you to their US page, but they began in Italy with Carlo Petrini.  I&#8217;m reading his book right now, in which he argues that food should be <em>buono, pulito, e giusto</em> (lit. good, clean, and fair; though the Italian embodies much more that this).  Slow Food is enormous, working to get fresh and local foods into schools  and on campuses, as well as providing educational resources and workshops and tons of other good, good things.  One of the really cool things is their Ark of Taste, which is a program designed to encourage people to eat more diverse (and local) foods.</p>
<p><a href="http://www.slowfoodusa.org/index.php/programs/details/ark_of_taste/">The US Ark of Taste</a>:</p>
<blockquote><p>The Ark is an international catalog of foods that are threatened by industrial standardization, the regulations of large-scale distribution and environmental damage. In an effort to cultivate consumer demand—key to agricultural conservation—only the best tasting endangered foods make it onto the Ark.</p>
<p>Since 1996, more than 800 products from over 50 countries have been added to the <a href="http://www.slowfoodfoundation.com/eng/arca/lista.lasso">international Ark of Taste</a>. The US Ark of Taste profiles over 200 rare regional foods, and is a tool that helps farmers, ranchers, fishers, chefs, retail grocers, educators and consumers celebrate our country&#8217;s diverse biological, cultural and culinary heritage.</p></blockquote>
<p>I really like the regional focus of the Ark.  I clicked on boiled cider and got not only a description of the product but a history of how it has been used.  This history was tied to the history of New England, which seems obvious&#8211;but it&#8217;s amazing how easily we dis-associate foods from the particular region and culture that they&#8217;re from.  This all ties together for me.  I like music that sounds like it comes from a time and place too, not something scrubbed clean in an attempt at universality (ps, that doesn&#8217;t work, it&#8217;s very zeitgeisty but ultimately unsustainable&#8230; not in music, not in fiction, not in food).  It&#8217;s not just that these Ark foods are literally in danger and thus the genetic strength of our food (and ourselves) is at risk, it&#8217;s that this is part of the celebration of our cultures.  Why?  Because it&#8217;s not just about our food, this is our community.</p>
<p>I&#8217;ve got to interrupt these thoughts for the moment, though.  I can smell my stew in the kitchen, which means it&#8217;s ready&#8230;</p>
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<title><![CDATA[Accepted to the University of Gastronomic Science in Italy!]]></title>
<link>http://grassrootsgourmet.net/2009/10/09/accepted-to-the-university-of-gastronomic-science-in-italy/</link>
<pubDate>Fri, 09 Oct 2009 16:44:15 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>Grassroots Gourmet</dc:creator>
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<description><![CDATA[Alrighty folks, looks like Grassroots Gourmet is in for another international facelift. After being ]]></description>
<content:encoded><![CDATA[<div class='snap_preview'><p><font face="american typewriter" size="2.5">Alrighty folks, looks like Grassroots Gourmet is in for another international facelift. After being abroad for nearly 2 months, traveling around Europe and doing almost no work at all besides eating/drinking myself to oblivion, I decided I needed to get my act together and really start planning my life around my interests!</p>
<p>So my final week in Italy I applied to the <a href="http://www.unisg.it">University of Gastronomic Science</a> (Universita degli Studi di Scienze Gastronomiche) in Colorno, Italy (about 10km outside of Parma). The school was founded by Carlo Petrini, founder and mastermind behind the internationally known Slow Food movement. Not to be confused with a culinary school, the University of Gastronomic Science combines food culture, business, agricultural and ecologically sustainability practices to create a comprehensive knowledge of Italian Gastronomy.</p>
<p>Anyway, to my absolute delight, I was accepted to this university and will be starting classes in Colorno, Italy on November 18th 2009, the course lasts an entire year!</p>
<p>Click to see what my course list looks like <a title="Courses" href="http://unisg.it/pagine/eng/programs/master_in_italian_gastronomy_and_tourism/courses.lasso">http://unisg.it/pagine/eng/programs/master_in_italian_gastronomy_and_tourism/courses.lasso</a></p>
<p>I will be using this blog as a space to give detailed descriptions of what I learn in and outside of the classroom. This Masters course is basically foodie paradise. I am either going to come back morbidly obese, or a total yum wine connoisseur. Let&#8217;s hope the latter.</p>
<p>But nonetheless I am really excited to be sharing this experience with all my readers! Get ready for foodie paradise in the Italian countryside as I earn my masters in Italian Gastronomy and Tourism!! here we goooo!!</font></p>
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<link>http://thebrag.wordpress.com/2009/10/06/good-clean-and-fair-carlo-petrini-on-the-slow-food-movement/</link>
<pubDate>Tue, 06 Oct 2009 04:32:42 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>The Brag</dc:creator>
<guid>http://thebrag.wordpress.com/2009/10/06/good-clean-and-fair-carlo-petrini-on-the-slow-food-movement/</guid>
<description><![CDATA[If food is an intersection of culture, community, economics, health, ethics and environment, then on]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Traveling In Italy, Agritourism Concept Comes To US]]></title>
<link>http://radicchioblog.com/2009/10/01/traveling-in-italy-agritourism-concept-comes-to-us/</link>
<pubDate>Thu, 01 Oct 2009 18:20:55 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>radicchioblog</dc:creator>
<guid>http://radicchioblog.com/2009/10/01/traveling-in-italy-agritourism-concept-comes-to-us/</guid>
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<content:encoded><![CDATA[<div class='snap_preview'><p>It is striking how many ideas which become big trends in the United States have actually started in Italy. The <a href="http://www.slowfood.com">Slow Food </a>movement which began in Italy with Carlo Petrini has become a national phenomenon.Slow Food began as Arcigola which was created in 1986 to resist the opening of a McDonald&#8217;s near the Spanish steps in Rome. </p>
<p>Many people think the movement came out of California but Italians were ahead of the game. Eating local, seasonal produce has been an Italian tradition forever. Clearly other countries have also been following the same rhythms but it is the Italians who codified them.</p>
<p>Another very Italian concept is now making headway in the United States as well, <a href="http://en.agriturismo.it">agritourism</a>. Farm stays or rural homesteads could be a definition. In Italy this way of traveling around and staying in rural areas throughout the country began earlier but really took off in the 1990s. Today&#8217;s <a href="http://www.tastingtable.com">Tasting Table</a> daily report reports on this new phenomenon in the United States.</p>
<p>When staying at an Italian agritourism, typically you can do a number of activities from horse back riding to trekking or simply do nothing at all. Staying at an agritourism can also be somewhat less expensive than staying at a hotel. Often they rent apartments which have kitchens. Many tend to have restaurants or Osterie where they serve their own food and wines. </p>
<p>When booking your next vacation to Italy, consider this as a possible option. Agritourisms tend to be located both near cities and in rural areas. Some have week long stays and others are used much like a hotel, for a shorter stay. They can be an extremely useful option when going to a trade fair such as <a href="http://www.vinitaly.com">Vinitaly</a> or<a href="http://www.pittimmagine.com"> Pitti Uomo </a> in Florence or any other large fair where rooms in the cities usually fill up. </p>
<p>Tuscany, Umbria, Le Marche and some other regions in Central Italy have an extension nextwork of Agritourisms. Try one the next time you go on a vacation. It is likely you will not be disappointed.</p>
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<title><![CDATA[Evvivanoè, Cherasco: sabato 19/09 presentazione di "Una Storia delle Colline", un libro di Alessandro Avataneo]]></title>
<link>http://rota.wordpress.com/2009/09/18/evvivanoe-cherasco-sabato-1909-presentazione-di-una-storia-delle-colline-un-libro-di-alessandro-avataneo/</link>
<pubDate>Fri, 18 Sep 2009 11:32:32 +0000</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[&#8220;Una storia delle colline&#8221;: presentazione a Cherasco per il libro dedicato a Matteo Corr]]></description>
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<p><strong>&#8220;Una storia delle colline&#8221;: presentazione a Cherasco per il libro dedicato a Matteo Correggia.</strong><br />
Sabato 19, alle ore 21, l&#8217;autore <strong>Alessandro Avataneo</strong> presente nella galleria &#8220;evvivanoé esposizioni d&#8217;arte&#8221;.</p>
<p><img src="http://rota.wordpress.com/files/2009/09/unastoriadellecolline.jpg" alt="UnaStoriaDelleColline" title="UnaStoriaDelleColline" width="500" height="500" class="alignnone size-full wp-image-4247" /></p>
<p>Sabato 19 settembre alle ore 21 viene presentato a Cherasco, nella galleria “evvivanoé esposizioni d’arte”, il libro &#8220;Una storia delle colline&#8221;, opera di Alessandro Avataneo pubblicata da Federico Motta Editore, con introduzione di Carlo Petrini.</p>
<p>Il volume è un racconto per testi e immagini dedicato alla figura di Matteo Correggia, uno dei maggiori protagonisti della viticoltura italiana e della trasformazione del Roero da territorio povero e sconosciuto a meta enogastronomica tra le più rinomate in Piemonte.<br />
Dieci capitoli dedicati ai personaggi, agli amici (tra questi, Carlin Petrini, lo chef Renato Dominici e i celeberrimi produttori Elio Altare e Roberto Voerzio) e ai famigliari che hanno riempito la breve esistenza di quest’uomo straordinario. Tante voci che, in coro e singolarmente, delineano il profilo di un’anima, della sua terra e della sua gente.<br />
L’eccezionale corredo iconografico -con il contributo fondamentale e primario del padre dell’autore, il fotografo Carlo Avataneo, insieme alla partecipazione di altri affermati autori quali Matthew Molchen, Davide Dutto e Dario Fusaro- fa del racconto un’opera singolare, onirica e struggente, smorzata a tratti dagli interventi scanzonati dei personaggi bizzarri e anticonformisti che hanno accompagnato Correggia in vita.<br />
L’opera rientra in un ampio progetto multimediale, che comprende anche un film, frutto di sette anni di intense ricerche, e uno spettacolo teatrale.</p>
<p><strong>Alessandro Avataneo</strong> è nato nel 1977 e ha collaborato in teatro con Alessandro Baricco e Gabriele Vacis nonché, sul set, con Gabriele Muccino e Michael Ballhaus, dei quali è stato assistente alla regia. E’ inoltre autore di racconti, testi teatrali, cortometraggi e documentari.</p>
<p>La presentazione si svolge all’interno della mostra d’arte “Storie delle Colline”, che la galleria cheraschese dedica fino al 4 ottobre alle Langhe e al Roero, visti da sei artisti internazionali: oltre ad Avataneo, la pittrice statunitense Leslie Alexander; l&#8217;artista e designer uruguaiano Coco Cano (con alcune opere create a quattro mani insieme a Mauro Fissore); la pittrice inglese Joy Moore e il pittore Piero Rasero.<br />
Un mix di pittura, fotografia, grafica e scrittura per “raccontare” con l’Arte paesaggi, vigne e sensazioni langarole e roerine.<br />
L&#8217;esposizione è visitabile dal mercoledì alla domenica con orario 16-19 o su appuntamento; ingresso libero.</p>
<p>Informazioni:<br />
evvivanoé esposizioni d’arte<br />
via vittorio emanuele, 56<br />
cherasco (cn)<br />
email <a href="mailto:esposizioni@evvivanoe.it">esposizioni@evvivanoe.it</a><br />
website: <a href="http://www.evvivanoe.it">www.evvivanoe.it</a><br />
tel.: 0172/489508.</p>
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<title><![CDATA[Anche a Lamezia Slow Food. Aperte le adesioni]]></title>
<link>http://tuttosulamezia.wordpress.com/2009/09/18/anche-a-lamezia-slow-food-aperte-le-adesioni/</link>
<pubDate>Thu, 17 Sep 2009 23:39:02 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>tuttosulamezia</dc:creator>
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<description><![CDATA[COMUNICATO STAMPA Si porta a conoscenza della comunità del lamentino che si è costituita la nuova co]]></description>
<content:encoded><![CDATA[<div class='snap_preview'><p>COMUNICATO STAMPA<br />
Si porta a conoscenza della comunità del lamentino che si è costituita la nuova condotta denominata “Terina” per il territorio di Lamezia Terme ed il suo comprensorio. ​<br />
Fondata da Carlo Petrini nel 1986, Slow Food è diventata nel 1989 una associazione internazionale. Nata a Bra, oggi conta 100 000 iscritti, con sedi in Italia, Germania, Svizzera, Stati Uniti, Francia, Giappone, Regno Unito (in ordine di costituzione) e aderenti in 132 Paesi.<br />
Slow Food significa dare la giusta importanza al piacere legato al cibo, imparando a godere della diversità delle ricette e dei sapori, a riconoscere la varietà dei luoghi di produzione e degli artefici, a rispettare i ritmi delle stagioni e del convivio.<br />
Slow Food afferma la necessità dell&#8217;educazione del gusto come migliore difesa contro la cattiva qualità e le frodi e come strada maestra contro l&#8217;omologazione dei nostri pasti; opera per la salvaguardia delle cucine locali, delle produzioni tradizionali, delle specie vegetali e animali a rischio di estinzione; sostiene un nuovo modello di agricoltura, meno intensivo e più pulito.<br />
Slow Food, attraverso progetti (Presìdi), pubblicazioni (Slow Food Editore), eventi (Terra Madre) e manifestazioni (Salone del Gusto, Cheese, Slow Fish) difende la biodiversità e i diritti dei popoli alla sovranità alimentare.<br />
La rete degli 86 000 associati di Slow Food è suddivisa in sedi locali &#8211; dette Condotte in Italia e Convivium nel mondo, coordinate da un Convivium leader &#8211; che si occupano di organizzare corsi, degustazioni, cene, viaggi, di promuovere a livello locale le campagne lanciate dall&#8217;associazione, di attivare progetti diffusi come gli orti scolastici e di partecipare ai grandi eventi organizzati da Slow Food a livello internazionale. Sono attivi più di 1000 Convivium Slow Food in 130 Paesi, comprese le 410 Condotte in Italia.<br />
Chi è interessato a questa crescita culturale-enogastranomica e non solo, potrà rivolgersi direttamente al presidente della suddetta condotta Giuseppe Serra 3398100575 oppure presso la sede di Lamezia C/O IL CASALE C/da Malaspina 88043 Ferleto Antico 0968/455023 maggiori informazioni sul sito www.slowfood.it</p>
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<title><![CDATA[Sustainche™ likes Slow Food™]]></title>
<link>http://sustainche.wordpress.com/2009/08/25/sustainche%e2%84%a2-likes-slow-food%e2%84%a2/</link>
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<description><![CDATA[Sustainche’s Blog readers may have noticed already that from time to time he uses the term Slow Food]]></description>
<content:encoded><![CDATA[<div class='snap_preview'><p>Sustainche’s Blog readers may have noticed already that from time to time he uses the term Slow Food™ in his posts. It needs no further explanation that ‘slow’ is very much in favour of ‘zivej’ (live and let live) Sustainche; being slow is deeply anchored in his genes. However, we shouldn’t make the mistake and think that being slow and ‘zivej’ is equal to ‘lazy’ or ‘without energy’ – not at all ! </p>
<p><em>Polar Bears</em> are huge mammals and the largest carnivores that live on land. Adult males weigh 352–680 kg and measure 2.4–3 m in length. Polar Bear&#8217;s most common hunting method is called <em>slow-hunting</em>. Sustainche still remembers how good his mum was able to smell. This excellent sense of smell Polar Bears use to locate a seal breathing hole, and crouch nearby in silence for a seal to appear. When the seal exhales, the bear smells its breath, reaches into the hole with a forepaw, and simply drags it out onto the ice. Being so huge in terms of weight and size but feeling very much relaxed at the same time seems to be an excellent surviving strategy.<br />
Just for comparison: <em>Cheetahs</em> in Africa. They are highly specialized and supposed to be the <em>fastest animal</em> on Planet Earth. Supported by their body shape and extremely efficient muscles they can follow all the prey they desire. Unfortunately … at least for cheetahs … they become so much exhausted by running after their prey that being successful in hunting they can not protect their kill even from small jackals and enjoy their food.<br />
“Well, it appears to me that speedy Cheetahs are simply the final stage of a one way street of evolution”, Sustainche comfortably explains. “Perhaps there is also some parallel to speedy Investment Bankers … .”</p>
<p>If we agree with Sustainche, we’ve found a fascinating explanation why</p>
<p align="center"><strong>Slow is the Future !</strong></p>
<p>Interesting enough some humans think in the same direction. It was on a trip to the country side of Montalcino in Toscana in Italy when a young guy called Carlo Petrini was so much disappointed by the food and wine he was offered that on the way back home and supported by applause of his companions he drafted the proclamation on the ‘Human Right to Pleasure’. “BRAVO”, Sustainche enthusiastically shouts “this is indeed ‘SLOW’ revolutionary spirit and power.” Yes, this day in Toscana was the key event to start organizing an authentic revolutionary movement. It took until July 1986 that the still small movement named ‘Arcigola’ was officially founded on the wine estate of Fontanafredda, which originally was the noble summer residence of the House of Savoyen. ‘Arcigola’ is a fusion of two words, namely A.R.C.I. and gola: <em>A.R.C.I.</em> is the abbreviation of <em>Associazione Ricreativa Culturale Italiana</em> or (in English language) ‘Italian Association for Recreation and Culture’ and <em>gola</em>, which in Italian language means both, throat and pleasure.</p>
<p>The very first actions of Arcigola were very practical indeed: During the middle of the 1980ies Italy was shamed by a major wine producing scandal and Sustainche learnt that it was Petrini and his friends who found reliable wine producers and published their survey as the famous wine guide <em>‘Vini d’Italia’</em>. Wine naturally goes together with food, and thus it soon became an additional objective to revitalize the tradition of the good old Italian <em>Osteria</em> in favour of new fashioned Ristorante. In general it was to create awareness among the Italians for their culinary traditions in large. It might be a legend only, but the movement became popular even beyond Italy when in 1986 activists put a table on Piazza di Spagna in Rome and served traditional Italian dishes and, yet, demonstrated against the opening of a well-known Fast Food restaurant and fast food in general. In fact, Slow Food™ was born, although officially it was founded in Paris only in 1989 … which from Sustainche’s perspective is also a first-class place for revolutions. Today, Slow Food™ is a registered trade mark and the movement enjoys having more than 100,000 members in 132 countries all around the world.</p>
<p>Sustainche takes great pleasure in recognizing that the eno-gastronomic (wine and food) beginning of Slow Food™ with supporting and defending good food, gastronomic pleasure and a slow place to life in the meantime broadened its sights to embrace the <strong>‘Quality of Life’</strong> in general, which is nothing else than the mission of Sustainable Development. By appreciating good, clean and fair food Slow Food™ sees consumers as to be co-producers. Sustainche appreciates this concept as to be of very practical impact for Sustainable Development. By training our senses WE ALL are responsible that food is tasty, flavoursome and fresh, produced without straining the earth’s resources or harming human health, and respectful of social justice, meaning fair pay and conditions for all concerned.</p>
<p>Well, Sustain™ Sustainche feels to be in good company with his Sustains™ family, and with Carlo Petrini and Aristotle. Sustainche knows that being a Polar Bear by origin and referring to the rules and regulations of the association he is not entitled to become an official member of Slow Food™. Probably nobody expected that the first refugee due to climatic change to arrive in Macedonia would enjoy joining the slow food revolution <img src='http://s.wordpress.com/wp-includes/images/smilies/icon_wink.gif' alt=';-)' class='wp-smiley' />  Never mind, Sustainche will support Slow Food™ as he does Sustainable Development.</p>
<p><img class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-516" title="Sustainche meets Schneckerl" src="http://sustainche.wordpress.com/files/2009/08/sustainche-meets-schneckerl.jpg" alt="Sustainche meets Schneckerl" width="295" height="197" /> </p>
<p>“Dear Signore Petrini,</p>
<p>We are both revolutionary activists !</p>
<p>Perhaps one day you grant me the honourable membership of Slow Food™.</p>
<p>I would be happy – and I’m also prepared to paint a Schneckerl on my big red heart.</p>
<p>Slowest regards,</p>
<p>Sustainche <img src='http://s.wordpress.com/wp-includes/images/smilies/icon_smile.gif' alt=':-)' class='wp-smiley' /> ”</p>
<p><a href="http://www.slowfood.com/">http://www.slowfood.com/</a></p>
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<title><![CDATA[ Slow Food Movement]]></title>
<link>http://thegreenwasher.wordpress.com/2009/08/13/slow-food-movement/</link>
<pubDate>Thu, 13 Aug 2009 15:32:55 +0000</pubDate>
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<content:encoded><![CDATA[<div class='snap_preview'><blockquote><p><a href="http://www.slowfood.fr/bulletin/MEMENTO.pdf"><img class="alignleft size-medium wp-image-666" title="2009_08_13" src="http://thegreenwasher.wordpress.com/files/2009/08/2009_08_13.jpg?w=250" alt="2009_08_13" width="250" height="300" /></a>Que vous soyez debout ou autour d&#8217;un barbecue, agenouillés sur un tatami ou assis à la table d&#8217;un restaurant prestigieux, l&#8217;acte de se nourrir est fondamentalement pour vivre. Le fait d&#8217;améliorer la qualité de notre alimentation et de prendre le temps d&#8217;en profiter est une manière simple d&#8217;insuffler un peu de joie dans notre vie.</p>
<p style="text-align:right;">Memento Slow Food France, p. 3</p>
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<p style="text-align:left;">Sans transition après la campagne diversité de <a href="http://thegreenwasher.wordpress.com/2009/08/12/campagne-mcdo-venez-comme-vous-etes/">McDo</a>, zoom sur Slow Food. Le mouvement est né en Italie, où les <a href="http://www.slate.fr/story/9117/berlusconi-italie-scandale-polemique-sexe-vie-sexuelle-politique">scandales politiques</a> n&#8217;entament heureusement pas le goût pour la bonne cuisine et l&#8217;intérêt pour l&#8217;authenticité, la tradition et la qualité des aliments.  </p>
<p>L&#8217;organisation est née en 1986 à Bra, dans la province de Cuneo renommée pour sa truffe blanche, ses vins et ses fromages, dans le but de promouvoir les plaisirs de la table dans leur diversité ; elle s&#8217;appelle alors Arcicola et compte 62 membres fondateurs &#8211; dont Carlo Petrini, aujourd&#8217;hui président. Trois ans plus tard, elle devient une organisation internationale à but non lucratif avec le Manifeste Slow Food. Des associations nationales se sont développées en France, en Suisse, au Royaume-Uni, en Allemagne, au Japon et aux Etats-Unis de même que les branches Slow Food Editore et Slow Food Promozione pour l&#8217;édition et la communication. Slow Food compte désormais 80 000 adhérents fédérés dans des groupes locaux appelés conviviums (du latin banquet, festin). Sa <a href="http://www.slowfood.fr/bulletin/MEMENTO.pdf">philosophie</a> se résume ainsi <!--more-->(p.37) :</p>
<blockquote><p>Slow Food est au carrefour entre l&#8217;éthique et le plaisir, l&#8217;écologie et la gastronomie. En se battant contre l&#8217;homogénéisation du goût, le pouvoir illimité des sociétés multinationales, l&#8217;agriculture industrielle et la folie de la &#8220;fast life&#8221;, Slow Food rend à la nourriture sa dignité culturelle et à la table sa lenteur et sa convivialité.</p></blockquote>
<p>Une de mes lectures de l&#8217;été est &#8220;Etoiles&#8221; (2006) de Simonetta Greggio qui raconte la renaissance d&#8217;un chef étoilé dans une auberge de Provence et qui illustre bien selon moi cette philosophie Slow Food. Il n&#8217;y est pas question de grandes manifestations qui dépassent les frontières telles Città Slow, Salone del Gusto ou les Arches du Goût. Non, c&#8217;est un récit un peu dur ponctué de recettes locales parfumées par le romarin et l&#8217;huile d&#8217;olive et, ce qui est peu commun dans une nouvelle, illustrées par des aquarelles&#8230;</p>
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<link>http://etxeoquehai.wordpress.com/2009/08/09/vaite-amodo-slow-food-i/</link>
<pubDate>Sun, 09 Aug 2009 14:36:52 +0000</pubDate>
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<guid>http://etxeoquehai.wordpress.com/2009/08/09/vaite-amodo-slow-food-i/</guid>
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<title><![CDATA[BLUFF BIOLOGICO?]]></title>
<link>http://altrainformazione.wordpress.com/2009/08/01/bluffbiologico/</link>
<pubDate>Sat, 01 Aug 2009 11:30:36 +0000</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[Uno studio inglese avrebbe dimostrato che prodotti biologici o coltivati con agricoltura tradizional]]></description>
<content:encoded><![CDATA[<div class='snap_preview'><p align="left">Uno studio inglese avrebbe dimostrato che prodotti biologici o coltivati con agricoltura tradizionale hanno le stesse proprietà nutritive, come riportato in un <a href="http://ricerca.repubblica.it/repubblica/archivio/repubblica/2009/07/31/ma-il-biologico-fa-bene.html">articolo</a> pubblicato ieri su “la Repubblica”.     <br />Ne cito una parte: “Mangiare cibi biologici o prodotti convenzionali non fa alcuna differenza. I loro contenuti nutritivi, dati alla mano, sono gli stessi. Parola della Food standards agency (Fsa), l&#8217; organismo ministeriale incaricato di tutelare la sicurezza alimentare inglese, che con una ricerca-choc su 162 studi dell&#8217; ultimo mezzo secolo ha rilanciato su scala planetaria la guerra (scientifica) del bio. «Il nostro lavoro non riguarda le conseguenze sull&#8217; organismo dell&#8217; uso di erbicidi o pesticidi» mette le mani avanti Alan Dangour, uno dei curatori del rapporto. Ma i risultati sono lo stesso sorprendenti: ortaggi, cereali e frutta coltivati con metodi naturali (solo letame e concimi organici, niente diserbanti o pesticidi di sintesi) hanno gli stessi &#34;ingredienti&#34; dei cugini tirati su a forza di chimica.”     <br />Questo è diventato il cavallo di battaglia di tutti i bio-scettici&#8230;     <br />Ho trovato eccellente il commento di Carlo Petrini (fondatore di “Slow food”). Lo riporto qui sotto.</p>
<p align="center"><a href="http://ricerca.repubblica.it/repubblica/archivio/repubblica/2009/07/31/ma-il-biologico-fa-bene.092ma.html"><strong><u>NIENTE CHIMICA E PIU’ NATURA, ECCO PERCHE’ LA SCELTA è GIUSTA</u></strong></a></p>
<p align="justify">Mentre in ogni angolo di mondo ci si trova a ragionare in termini di sicurezza alimentare su Ogm, fitofarmaci, sementi, cibi funzionali, salute delle acque e situazione dei mari; mentre da ogni angolo del pianeta si leva, verso la ricerca pubblica, la medesima richiesta di ricerca indipendente e di risultati certi su cui basare le scelte politiche future, invece di costruirle solo sul mercato; mentre la parte più ragionevole dei consumatori e dei produttori di cibo si converte al biologico, per convinzione o per disperazione, di cosa si occupa l&#8217; ente governativo britannico preposto alla tutela della salute pubblica per quel che concerne il cibo? Di provare e pubblicizzare, non voglio sapere usando quanto tempo e denaro, che il cibo biologico non sarebbe, dal punto di vista nutrizionale, superiore a quello convenzionale.</p>
<p align="justify"><strong>UDITE udite: un pomodoro bio non avrebbe più vitamine di un pomodoro convenzionale. E allora?</strong> Anche ammesso fosse vero &#8211; e ci sono fior di ricerche a provare il contrario &#8211; <strong>pensano davvero che i consumatori scelgono il bio solo perché credono abbia più vitamine? Non li sfiora il pensiero che chi sceglie di consumare o produrre bio ha una visione un poco più complessa e ampia del cibo?</strong> <u>Non si vive di sole vitamine. Si vive di rispetto dei ritmi di maturazione, di tutela della fertilità dei terreni, di paesaggi custoditi, di bellezza pur nello sviluppo, di tessuto sociale, di bontà organolettica, di relazioni umane come quelle che si instaurano in un mercato di prossimità.</u> <strong><u>Si vive di assenza di residui chimici.</u></strong> <u>Si vive di cibo raccolto quando è maturo e prodotto nei territori vocati, si vive di cibo spostato il meno possibile, si vive di cibo vero.</u> <strong>E si vive di cibo trasparente.</strong></p>
<p align="justify"><strong>Una delle ragioni principali per cui i consumatori scelgono il bio è che sanno cosa è.</strong> Una delle ragioni principali per cui certo cibo industriale riesce ad essere venduto è che una lunga serie di informazioni su di esso viene taciuta al consumatore, poiché non rientra negli obblighi di legge. Anche la battaglia sugli Ogm è una battaglia di etichette. Se si aprissero tutti i mercati agli Ogm ma con l&#8217; obbligo di dichiararli in etichetta la maggior parte delle aziende produttrici fallirebbe. E infatti accanto alle azioni di lobbying per ottenere autorizzazioni alla coltivazione e commercializzazione, c&#8217; è una azione di lobbying straordinariamente più forte e cocciuta per evitare, ad ogni livello, l&#8217; obbligatorietà delle dichiarazioni in etichetta.</p>
<p align="justify"><strong>Di questo occorrerebbe occuparsi, quando si parla di sicurezza alimentare e di salute pubblica:</strong> non del fatto che i pomodori bio non sono più salutari di quelli convenzionali. Ma <strong>del fatto che un certo tipo di agricoltura tratta produttori e consumatori come pedine di un gioco le cui vincite non vanno in tasca né agli uni né agli altri.</strong> <u>Se la Food Standards Agency si ritrova con tempo e cervelli in abbondanza, </u>provi a rispondere alle domande che davvero interessano i consumatori, a proposito della loro salute in relazione al cibo. <u><strong>Provi a chiarire le relazioni tra l&#8217;uso della chimica in agricoltura e l&#8217;impennarsi di tumori degli ultimi cinquant&#8217;anni. Provi a dirci quali e quante sostanze chimiche vengono rilevate in mare e dunque nei pesci a ciclo vitale lungo.</strong></u> <u>Indagare su quello che già siamo sicuri sia innocuo, è troppo facile.</u> E, in un momento in cui i consumi di biologico stanno crescendo, viene da chiedersi per quale motivo, e per fare un favore a chi, si senta il bisogno di raffreddare gli entusiasmi.</p>
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<title><![CDATA[L'Italia si è trasformata in Berlusconistan?]]></title>
<link>http://antonellaferrara.wordpress.com/2009/07/31/litalia-e-diventata-berlusconistan/</link>
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<description><![CDATA[CIAO BELLA Un viaggio nell’Italia di Berlusconi La versione on-line del giornale tedesco Der Spiegel]]></description>
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<p><strong>Un viaggio nell’Italia di Berlusconi</strong></p>
<p>La versione on-line del giornale tedesco <em><strong>Der Spiegel</strong></em> (vai all&#8217;<a href="http://www.spiegel.de/international/europe/0,1518,639042,00.html#ref=nlint" target="_blank">articolo in lingua</a>) dedica un servizio lunghissimo alla bella Italia. Alexander Smoltcyk compie un viaggio in Italia e incontra bandiere verdi sventolanti in una terra chiamata Padania, macchine di lusso parcheggiate sui marciapiedi di Siena, vecchi imbalsamati che fanno ancora politica tra i sussurri del Transatlantico a Roma, segnali stradali con buchi di pallottole in Puglia. Si ferma a Napoli dove incontra il sociologo Peter Kammerer che, esprime le sue opinioni, sulla corruzione vista quasi come male necessario e sull’Italia considerata come il laboratorio politica d’Europa. Il racconto del viaggio e dei personaggi incontrati (da Cicciolina a Giuliano Ferrara, senza dimenticare Nichi Vendola) si trova alla pagina <a href="http://antonellaferrara.wordpress.com/italia-che-vai/" target="_self">Italia che vai…</a>, mentre di seguito è riportata l’intervista al sociologo.</p>
<p><strong>Italia, il laboratorio politico</strong></p>
<p><em>“Ogni cosa si muove qui, e le sue dinamiche non si possono predire, anche se alla fine la sua struttura è molto robusta. … Le questioni di stile sono importanti in Italia, e le cose che Berlusconi trascura oggi potrebbero costargli la testa domani. L’Italia è sempre stata un laboratorio politico. Hitler studiava Mussolini, e la gente di sinistra ammirava l’Eurocomunismo, così come la fazione tedesca dell’Armata Rossa imparava dalle Brigate Rosse italiane. Secondo Kammerer, la Germania potrebbe avere un suo Berlusconi tra 10 anni. I sintomi già si avvertono: il crollo di popolarità della SPD, l’inconsistenza di tutte le piattaforme politiche, l’arbitrarietà dei discorsi e la mediocrità dei politici. Per questa ragione, è importante studiare l’Italia, e conoscere gente come Sandra Canes e Nichi Vendola, e ascoltare quello che dicono Giuliano Ferrara o i commercianti di pezzi di ricambio. Berlusconi non costituisce la malattia dell’Italia. Gli italiani lo guardano come se guardassero in uno specchio onnipresente, sempre inorriditi, non sempre volenterosi e costantemente preoccupati di quello che può nascondersi dietro. E’ proprio a causa delle sue impertinenze che l’Italia conserva il suo fascino. Dice Kammerer: ‘Tutto è ambiguo, per esempio io sono favore della corruzione. Se le regole fossero tutte rigide, sarebbe necessario oltrepassare i limiti, altrimenti la vitalità si esaurirebbe. La corruzione evita che l’ordinario diventi legge.’ Proprio l’ordinario da perdere fascino. In questo senso, l’Europa ha bisogno di questo paese più che mai – come un’imposizione, un laboratorio. E’ bene sapere che qualcosa esiste a una sola ora di volo da qui. L’Italia è ancora un paese eccitante, e vale la pena osservarlo. Kammerer dice: ‘Cosa amo dell’Italia? Non puoi dipendere da niente in questo paese’. Neanche dalla verità e dalla decadenza della nazione.</em></p>
<p>Continua (clicca <a href="http://antonellaferrara.wordpress.com/italia-che-vai/" target="_self">qui</a>)</p>
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<title><![CDATA[El Slow Marketing.]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[La Mezquita de Córdoba &#8211; Fotos (6:27) En el 2003 me enteré de que unos jóvenes habían colocado]]></description>
<content:encoded><![CDATA[<div class='snap_preview'><p style="text-align:justify;"><strong>La Mezquita de Córdoba &#8211; Fotos</strong> (6:27)<br />
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En el 2003 me enteré de que unos jóvenes habían colocado un puesto de degustación de <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tortilla_de_patatas">tortilla</a> y <a href="http://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Salmorejo">salmorejo</a> para invitar cordialmente, a los turistas que pretendieran entrar al Burger King, que acababa de abrir en una de las calles costeras de la <a href="http://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mezquita-Catedral_de_C%C3%B3rdoba">Mezquita de Córdoba</a>, en Andalucía, España. Era una protesta con un lema clarísimo en las pancartas “En la Mezquita se come tortillita” contra el fast food que consideraban inadecuado en un espacio declarado por la Unesco Patrimonio  Universal de la Humanidad. La tortilla y el salmorejo la traían los propios manifestantes y no contaban con el auspicio de ningún restaurant cercano (entre los que está un santuario de la gastronomía andalusí llamado “<a href="http://www.elcaballorojo.com/">El Caballo Rojo</a>” que recomiendo no dejar de visitar porque hasta los helados de la casa con extraordinarios), pero tuvo gran acogida y como informaba el <a href="http://www.diariocordoba.com/noticias/noticia.asp?pkid=40310">Diario de Córdoba</a> del 09/02/03: ”<em>Lo que comenzó como una cita informal entre amigos se convirtió en una fiesta contra la comida basura, la globalización, el tío Sam y, cómo no, la guerra que lidera Bush. Pero también se unieron vecinos del barrio y hasta algún <span style="color:#000000;">hosteler</span></em><em><span style="color:#000000;">o</span></em><em> que también arrimó sus viandas y gritó, mandil en ristre, contra el &#8220;dispensario de colesterol&#8221;.</em></p>
<p style="text-align:justify;">La protesta se parecía mucho (aunque los cordobeses no lo sabían, porque me puse en contacto con ellos y no tenían ni idea entonces) a la que organizó <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carlo_Petrini">Carlo Petrini</a> en Roma, cuando McDonald’s planeaba abrir un establecimiento en la Plaza de España en 1986. Solo que los manifestantes italianos blandían tazones de <em>penne</em> como armas y no le invitaban nada a nadie, según decía el <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2003/07/26/arts/q-a-endangered-species-slow-food.html">New York Times</a>, unos años mas tarde. De ahí en más, el movimiento tomó nombre: <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slow_Food">Slow Food</a>, lanzó un manifiesto contra el fast food, y terminó convirtiéndose en una organización con oficinas en Suiza, Alemania, los EE UU (Nueva York), Francia, Japón y el Reino Unido lideradas desde Bra, una ciudad cerca de Turín y con actividades que van desde ferias de vino y comida, a la Bienal del Queso en Bra,  el Salón del Gusto y un festival de pescado llamado Slowfish, publicaciones, lobbies ante la<span style="color:#000000;"> </span><span style="color:#000000;">C.E.</span><span style="color:#000000;"> </span>en política agrícola y de comercio y protección de alimentos en riesgo de desaparecer.</p>
<p style="text-align:justify;">Por eso sonreí al ver el título de un artículo de Ag Age: <a href="http://adage.com/digital/article?article_id=137644">It&#8217;s Time for a Movement Toward &#8216;Slow Marketing</a> &#8220;Es tiempo de (que haya) un Movimiento en pro del Slow Marketing&#8221;.</p>
<p style="text-align:justify;">Dice su autor, Pete Blackshaw, VP ejecutivo de <a href="http://www.nielsen-online.com/">Nielsen Online Digital Strategic Services</a>, que “hacemos amigos de amigos de amigos y montamos circuitos entre grupos de gente desconocida a la que tratamos como si fueran allegados basados en criterios ligeros y a veces dudosos y celebramos cada conversación online como si realmente importase y se están abriendo nuevos horizontes pero a cambio de adquirir algunos malos hábitos en el camino.</p>
<p style="text-align:justify;"><strong>Carl Honoré, autor de &#8220;El elogio de la lentitud&#8221; &#8211; en castellano</strong><br />
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No ha sido Blackshaw el primero en hablar de<span style="color:#ff0000;"> <span style="color:#000000;">Slow fr</span></span><span style="color:#000000;">e</span>nte a la velocidad desenfrenada y a la superficialidad de muchas cosas de la vida moderna. El primero, después de Petrini, en proponerlo fue <a href="http://www.carlhonore.com/">Carl Honore</a> (periodista canadiense que fue corresponsal en Buenos Aires y se le nota en el video en castellano), que escribió “<a href="http://www.amazon.com/Praise-Slowness-Worldwide-Movement-Challenging/dp/006054578X">In Praise of Slowness: How A Worldwide Movement Is Challenging the Cult of Speed</a>” y “<a href="http://www.amazon.com/Under-Pressure-Rescuing-Children-Hyper-Parenting/dp/0061128805">Under Pressure: Rescuing Our Children from the Culture of Hyper-Parenting</a>”, en los que explora la revolución del <a href="http://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Movimiento_slow">Movimiento Slow</a> intentando integrar el progreso de la era de la información con un estilo de vida afirmado en una lentitud interior que permite relaciones más profundas. Es decir hacerlo todo a la velocidad correcta. Lo mejor posible y no lo más rápido posible. Honoré es un reputado conferencista y se ha presentado en  <a href="http://www.ted.com/talks/lang/eng/carl_honore_praises_slowness.html">TED</a></p>
<p style="text-align:justify;">Propone Blackshaw una serie de medidas:</p>
<p style="text-align:justify;"><strong>Poner al consumidor por delante</strong>.  Porque a la velocidad actual estamos adelantándonos. Hay que anticipar las necesidades del consumidor pero hay que ser sensibles para no tropezar con él en su propio trayecto. Prestar atención de una manera disciplinada y atenta es el paso previo antes de involucrarse con él. No hay que olvidar que el va a ser nuestro maestro.</p>
<p style="text-align:justify;"><strong>Volver a nuestro patio trasero</strong>, donde escuchábamos antes. Los medios sociales ha abierto un conducto masivo de escucha y retroalimentación. Lo que propone el Show Marketing es darle al contacto directo el mismo crédito que a la conversación externa. Los números 800 o los formularios de comentarios o el botón de “Hable directamente con nosotros” es tan importante como una cuenta de Twitter. Incluso le pueden dar credibilidad al otro tipo de información.</p>
<p style="text-align:justify;"><strong>Capacidad de poder mantener sostenidamente el intercambio</strong> <strong>de información. </strong>Porque se puede iniciar una conversación casi inmediatamente o lanzar una campaña rápida de buzz, pero las reglas d<span style="color:#000000;">e</span><span style="color:#000000;">l slow mar</span><span style="color:#000000;">k</span>eting sugieren que lo mejor del boca a boca se recoge en el largo plazo: estupendos productos, interesantes experiencias, servicio al cliente de primer nivel, empleados comprometidos con la empresa que fortifican la marca. Se diría que Apple es una marca ganadora de Slow Marketing.</p>
<p style="text-align:justify;"><strong>Crear primero la estación central y añadir después unidades satélites. </strong>La página web es la estación central donde está la información esencial, el lugar de búsqueda para el consumidor, contenidos compartidos (incluso en el caso de minoristas asociados), oportunidades de información directa, aplicaciones inalámbricas y servicios. Y las páginas de las marcas son significativamente de más confianza que otros avisos y vehículos promocionales.</p>
<p style="text-align:justify;"><strong>Escoja sus batallas</strong>: el frenesí de los medios sociales le da premio a quien contesta todas las conversaciones. No es necesario responder a todo. Hay que dar un paso atrás antes de zambullirse en las conversaciones y en algunos casos, no involucrarse es la mejor forma de participar.</p>
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<p style="text-align:justify;">Confieso que las medidas de Blackshaw me desilusionan. Creo que si se habla de un balance entre las cosas que tienen que hacerse con velocidad y las que merecen tomar una pausa —es decir establecer un equilibrio para darle a cada momento la velocidad correcta—, no ha explotado las enseñanzas de Carl Honoré, gurú del <a href="http://www.slowmovement.com/">Slow Movement</a>, de cuyos videos, que merecen ser vistos, pongo los enlaces al final de este post. Porque Honoré no recomienda cambiar una actitud —velocidad— por otra —lentitud— sino desarrollar el rango total de opciones: responder con toda velocidad a la situación que lo requiera pero ser capaz de tener la voluntad de disminuirla para realizar mejor la siguiente tarea o para sentarse a considerar cada ángulo del problema y no enfrentarse a cada circunstancia y cada diligencia como si se tratara de un asunto de vida o muerte. Que es lo que muchísima gente hace. Que es como muchísima gente vive. Que es norma en el mundo de los negocios y que en el marketing es apreciado, aún, como un rasgo de personalidad deseable y que se debe desarrollar.</p>
<p style="text-align:justify;">Ese tema lo desarrollaré en un siguiente post.</p>
<p style="text-align:justify;">Pero no quisiera irme sin tocar otra de mis pasiones aunque, por una vez, no tenga que ver con el marketing y comentar lo parecida que es la filosofía de Honoré con una a la que se le ha llamado “El Arte de vivir” y que se desarrolló a lo largo de la historia en el sur de España, en Andalucía. Dice la <a href="http://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Espa%C3%B1a">Wikipedia</a>: <em>“Alrededor del año 1100 a. C., los fenicios llegaron a la península y fundaron, 80 años después de la guerra de Troya,[24] Gadir, la Gades romana, que hoy es Cádiz. Ello sitúa la fundación en el 1104 a. C. y la convierte en la ciudad de Europa Occidental de cuya fundación se tienen referencias más antiguas</em>”.</p>
<p style="text-align:justify;">Y <a href="http://www.antoniogala.es/entrada.php">Antonio Gala</a>, uno de los referentes literarios en lengua española, dice que él <em>“pertenece a un pueblo, el andaluz, cuyas más grandes concreciones y más esplendorosa síntesis se fraguaron, como el buen vino, en quietud fervorosa y en penumbra.  Un pueblo que no confunde nunca el paro -forzoso- con el ocio -vocacional-.</em><em> Un pueblo que se encuentra más cerca de la postura griega que el resto de los peninsulares, porque su indolencia es el resultado de un desdén por las cosas, de una parsimonia, de un ascetismo y de una ciencia de la vida</em>”.</p>
<p style="text-align:justify;"><strong>Andalucia te quiere (1:25)</strong></p>
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<p style="text-align:justify;">La manera como el pueblo andaluz interpreta su vida es difícil de entender. Tener una cita con la puesta de sol todas las tardes es someterse a una especie de meditación trascendental sin necesidad de esterilla, posición de lotus, ni mantra. Y sin decir OMM… Y eso no le impide al meditante trabajar en lo que tenga que trabajar, pero probablemente con otro aire. Los forasteros se asombran de que la gente sea tan abierta y parezca estar siempre de fiesta. Al no poderlo explicar le ponen una etiqueta y lo califican mal. Porque claro el “Time is Money”, &#8220;The American Dream&#8221;, y el “Live young, die fast” no tienen buena prensa ni espacio aquí. Aunque las sucursales del Corte Inglés funcionen con la misma eficiencia que en Barcelona, aunque los bancos trabajen con la misma eficacia que en Berlín, el arte de vivir hace sus establecimientos distintos porque la gente vive con otro aire.</p>
<p style="text-align:justify;">De su pasado ha hablado Obama <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BjlKdNpXNsg&#38;feature=fvsr">hace pocos días en El Cairo</a> con poca precisión histórica y de ese mismo pasado habló Doris Lessing, premio Nobel de Literatura 2007, al recibir el Premio Príncipe de Asturias en el 2001, con mejor precisión, alabando la convivencia de las tres religiones en Andalucía:</p>
<p style="text-align:justify;">«Cuando me siento pesimista por la situación del mundo, pienso en aquella época, aquí en España, a principios de la Edad Media, en Córdoba, en Granada, en Toledo, en otras ciudades del sur, donde cristianos, musulmanes y judíos convivían en armonía; poetas, músicos, escritores, sabios, todos juntos, admirándose, ayudándose. Esta maravillosa cultura duró tres siglos. Lo que ha sido puede volver a ser».</p>
<p style="text-align:justify;">Y aunque es ocioso hablar del arte en Andalucía, contaré que en la Universidad de Granada hay un proyecto importante de <a href="http://www.parqueciencias.com/historico/cursos/2008/jornadasCelulasMadre/">investigación con células madre</a> en especial para curar la diabetes. El <a href="http://www.parqueciencias.com/historico/cursos/2008/jornadasCelulasMadre/">Parque  de las Ciencias </a> 70,000 m<sup>2</sup><sup> </sup>de exposiciones y pabellones científicos, situado a escasos minutos del  centro histórico de Granada,  tiene una  de las ofertas más variadas de ocio cultural y científico de Europa. El ocio,  tan difícil de manejar en el mundo veloz y tan integrado a la vida de los  andaluces.</p>
<p style="text-align:justify;">Sobre él dejaré hablar nuevamente a Gala, servirá de final a este post y el explicará el ocio y el negocio (de <em>nec otium, </em>literalmente no-ocio<em>)</em> en la cultura. Y como dirá el insigne escritor e<span style="color:#000000;">l</span><span style="color:#000000;"> c</span>ambio tecnológico no ha ido acompañado de un cambio filosófico. Matizarán el texto dos homenajes a la vista y al oído. A la belleza de Andalucía.</p>
<p style="text-align:justify;"><strong>Almoraima &#8211; Paco de Lucía &#8211; Andalucía</strong></p>
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<p style="text-align:justify;">LA CULTURA DEL OCIO</p>
<p style="text-align:justify;">Pocas palabras más deterioradas por el paso del tiempo que la palabra ocio, sobre la que se edificó el nec otium -negocio- como opuesto. Y pocas realidades: apenas si entre nosotros queda alguna actividad teñida de ocio o algún ocio activo. El principal problema que se le plantea a este sistema económico es el de haber incurrido en una esencial contradicción: considerar, por una parte, <span style="text-decoration:underline;">el trabajo como fin de esta vida o redención para la otra</span>, y no poder, por otra parte, ofrecer a cada ciudadano un puesto en que ejercitarlo. La ética puritana anglosajona y la moral judeocristiana se han pisado con esto, una vez más, las narices. En el galope hacia la automatización que esta sociedad lleva es ridículo pensar siquiera en el pleno empleo. <span style="text-decoration:underline;">De ahí que se hable tanto de la cultura del ocio</span>. Porque el mayor tiempo libre sobrevenido ha de llenarse de algo, densificarse y caracterizarse; si no, el mundo del trabajo entero se verá en el grave trance que acosa en general a los parados y a los jubilados forzosos: un desasimiento, una inercia truncada de repente, una reconocida inutilidad, una descalificación inmerecida.</p>
<p style="text-align:justify;">Pero hoy se habla de la cultura del ocio como de una meta histórica. Sin embargo, lo que significa al occidente con más exactitud tuvo su cuna en lo que fue, en estricto sentido, la cultura del ocio. <span style="text-decoration:underline;">Me refiero a la edad de oro griega</span>. Para nosotros es difícil comprender su idea de la vida, puesto que es el ocio verdadero lo que la fundamentaba, y lo que fundamenta la nuestra es el trabajo. Entonces convivían dos clases de hombres: los libres, que tenían a su cargo la filosofía, la poesía, la política, o sea, el pensamiento, y los esclavos, que tenían a su cargo los trabajos. La justificación de los primeros era el ocio ocupado por la contemplación -es decir, su práctica era la teoría-, y todo su tiempo, esclarecido por la propia libertad, era tiempo libre. Hoy se nos asegura que no existen esclavos; puede, pero lo que no existen son hombres libres como en aquella Grecia. Allí la libertad relucía plena de sentido: coincidía la holganza con el placer más alto, con el estudio apasionado, con el deber, con la afición, con la  felicidad. Allí el hombre se sentía, sin abdicaciones, libre en su corazón y en su mente. El hombre actual, por el contrario, se ha transformado en un híbrido de libre, esclavo y máquina. Y será muy difícil que prevalezca el primer componente sobre los otros dos. Quizá <span style="text-decoration:underline;">un camino de aproximación sea el del ocio y su cultura</span>. Una cultura hoy permitida -o mejor, exigida- por la tecnología y la automatización, como la griega clásica estuvo permitida por la esclavitud.</p>
<p style="text-align:justify;"><strong>La  Alhambra Granada</strong><strong> &#8211; Recuerdos de la Alhambra – Tárrega (8:23)</strong></p>
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<p style="text-align:justify;">Pero para ello será necesario cambiar nuestra mentalidad decimonónica. Será necesario superar el puritanismo laboralista que instauró el capitalismo y el estajanovista que trajo el comunismo. <span style="text-decoration:underline;">El cambio</span><span style="text-decoration:underline;"> tecnológico no ha ido acompañado de un cambio filosófico</span>. Hay que aprender que en los países de nuestra área no existe ya la escasez: lo que existe es la pobreza porque la renta no está bien repartida. En contra de todos los presupuestos de la competitividad, habrá que empezar a creer que el hombre es cooperativo y altruista; que la finalidad de su trabajo no es sólo ganar, sino lograr una obra bien hecha; <span style="text-decoration:underline;">que los economistas, aparte de medir la cantidad de producto nacional, han de medir la calidad de vida</span>; que en esta astronave de la Tierra navegamos todos codo con codo, y que ningún país es su ombligo, y que ya es hora de que un giro <span style="text-decoration:underline;">intercambie el Norte con el Sur</span>.</p>
<p style="text-align:justify;">Tendremos, pues, que volver los ojos a los griegos <span style="text-decoration:underline;">para fertilizar y enriquecer nuestro ocio obligatorio</span>. Decía Ortega que las ocupaciones del hombre forman parte de dos repertorios opuestos: el trabajoso y el felicitario. (<span style="text-decoration:underline;">En una armoniosa convivencia de ambos creo que consistiría la plenitud</span>, siempre que lo trabajoso se rija por la dignidad y la justicia, y lo felicitario por la seriedad y la hondura.) Y que en «el hombre normal» -ya es difícil saber qué es eso- las ocupaciones felices «casi, casi» se pueden comprimir en cuatro categorías: <span style="text-decoration:underline;">danza, caza, carrera y tertulia.</span> Si en la tertulia incluimos la televisión -de tan oscuro porvenir-, en la carrera incluimos los viajes y todos los deportes, puede que la clasificación se actualizara. Pero ¿<span style="text-decoration:underline;">dónde incluir la lectura, la reflexión serena, la actitud deductora e inductora de nuestra realidad </span>y de la realidad que nos rodea? ¿Dónde incluir los empleos sigilosos del ocio, los menos bullangeros y menos pasatiempos: la labor de los coleccionistas, los amables oficios dominicales, las aficiones, las manías, las chifladuras, que se quedan a mitad de camino entre el ensimismamiento y la alteración? Esas menudas aficiones compañeras en que el ser humano halla el porqué de tanto esfuerzo, de tanta soledad y de tanto cansancio. Las aficiones con que el hombre respira hondo y se consuela de las incomprensiones familiares, de la actitud del día, de la incomunicación con sus superiores o colegas o vecinos, de la hostilidad de la calle, de su propia insignificancia, y de la pena de que, si muriese mañana, quizá los utensilios que tiene entre las manos serían los que le echaran más o menos&#8230; En definitiva, el ocio, como todo lo que merece la pena en esta vida y en la otra, no se improvisa. Es un arte perceptible y hermoso. Si nuestros Estados quieren hoy propagar la cultura del ocio, <span style="text-decoration:underline;">tendrán primero que sembrarla y cuidarla.</span> Y luego esperar, respetuosa y pacientemente, a que florezca.</p>
<p style="text-align:justify;">Carta a los herederos</p>
<p style="text-align:justify;">ISBN: 84-08-01548-6</p>
<p style="text-align:justify;">La cultura del ocio.</p>
<p style="text-align:justify;">Págs. 125 – 129</p>
<p style="text-align:justify;">&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;</p>
<p style="text-align:justify;"><strong><em>Las conferencias de Carl Honoré</em></strong></p>
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<p style="text-align:justify;"><strong><em>Carl Honore Part 1 of 3</em></strong></p>
<p style="text-align:justify;"><em><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SfFtbKWAJ8c&#38;feature=related">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SfFtbKWAJ8c&#38;feature=related</a> </em></p>
<p style="text-align:justify;"><strong><em>Carl Honore Part 2 of 3</em></strong></p>
<p style="text-align:justify;"><em><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=85dqpUTQ7_U&#38;NR=1">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=85dqpUTQ7_U&#38;NR=1</a> </em></p>
<p style="text-align:justify;"><strong><em>Carl Honore Part 3 of 3</em></strong></p>
<p style="text-align:justify;"><em><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qetQDDDsU3E&#38;feature=related">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qetQDDDsU3E&#38;feature=related</a></em></p>
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<p style="text-align:justify;"><strong><em>Carl Honore: Slowing down in a world built for speed  -  TED</em></strong></p>
<p style="text-align:justify;"><em><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UhXiHJ8vfuk&#38;feature=related">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UhXiHJ8vfuk&#38;feature=related</a></em></p>
<p style="text-align:justify;"><em>o bien</em></p>
<p style="text-align:justify;"><strong><em>Talks Carl Honore praises slowness</em></strong></p>
<p style="text-align:justify;"><em><a href="http://www.ted.com/talks/lang/eng/carl_honore_praises_slowness.html">http://www.ted.com/talks/lang/eng/carl_honore_praises_slowness.html</a> </em></p>
<p style="text-align:justify;"><em> </em></p>
<p style="text-align:justify;">&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8211;</p>
<p style="text-align:justify;"><strong><em>Más videos de Andalucía</em></strong><em> </em></p>
<p style="text-align:justify;"><strong>Andalucía es de cine I</strong></p>
<p style="text-align:justify;"><em><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cgr87Ti6gd4&#38;feature=related">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cgr87Ti6gd4&#38;feature=related</a></em></p>
<p style="text-align:justify;"><em><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cgr87Ti6gd4&#38;feature=related"></a><em><strong>Andalucía es de cine II</strong></em></em></p>
<p style="text-align:justify;"><em><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o8zJlIw4RRs&#38;feature=fvw">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o8zJlIw4RRs&#38;feature=fvw</a></em></p>
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<title><![CDATA[Food Hero: Carlo Petrini]]></title>
<link>http://eatinginraleigh.wordpress.com/2009/05/26/food-hero-carlo-petrini/</link>
<pubDate>Tue, 26 May 2009 02:44:33 +0000</pubDate>
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<guid>http://eatinginraleigh.wordpress.com/2009/05/26/food-hero-carlo-petrini/</guid>
<description><![CDATA[Treehugger reporter Kelly Rossiter writes from Toronto, Canada in the article &#8220;Slow Food Found]]></description>
<content:encoded><![CDATA[<div class='snap_preview'><p>Treehugger reporter Kelly Rossiter writes from Toronto, Canada in the article &#8220;<a href="http://www.treehugger.com/files/2009/05/slow-food-founder-petrini-on-local-food.php?dcitc=weekly_nl" target="_blank">Slow Food Founder Carlo Petrini on local eating</a>&#8221; that Petrini has a simple message: buy good locally grown ingredients, cook your own dinner and don&#8217;t waste anything.</p>
<p>To mark the arrival of fast food in Italy, Carlo Petrini established the slow food movement.</p>
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<li><a href="http://web.princeton.edu/sites/pei/pdf/CarloPetriniBio.pdf" target="_blank">biography</a> &#8211; Princeton University</li>
<li><a href="http://www.time.com/time/europe/hero2004/petrini.html" target="_blank">The Slow Revolutionary</a> &#8211; Time magazine</li>
<li><a href="http://www.slowfood.com/" target="_blank">Slow Food</a> website</li>
<li><a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2009/feb/04/slow-food-carlo-petrini" target="_blank">Slow food: Have we lost our appetite?</a> -the Guardian, London</li>
<li><a href="http://video.google.com/videosearch?hl=en&#38;client=firefox-a&#38;rls=org.mozilla:en-US:official&#38;hs=uqm&#38;ei=QFUbSsjoINuMtgeYraHfDA&#38;resnum=1&#38;q=carlo+petrini&#38;um=1&#38;ie=UTF-8&#38;ei=RlUbSpinAtuptgf1tbXbDA&#38;sa=X&#38;oi=video_result_group&#38;resnum=4&#38;ct=title#" target="_blank">Carlo Petrini</a> &#8211; on video</li>
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<title><![CDATA[Terra Ma(d)re]]></title>
<link>http://dylandave.wordpress.com/2009/05/25/terra-madre/</link>
<pubDate>Mon, 25 May 2009 12:08:53 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>eltosco</dc:creator>
<guid>http://dylandave.wordpress.com/2009/05/25/terra-madre/</guid>
<description><![CDATA[- Terra Madre &#8211; 2009 &#8211; ♥♥♥ e 1\2 - di Ermanno Olmi Tornare alle origini. Tornare al seme]]></description>
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<p style="text-align:center;"><strong><span style="color:#333300;">- Terra Madre &#8211; 2009 &#8211; ♥♥♥ e 1\2 -</span></strong></p>
<p style="text-align:center;"><strong><span style="color:#333300;">di</span></strong></p>
<p style="text-align:center;"><strong><span style="color:#333300;">Ermanno Olmi</span></strong></p>
<p>Tornare alle origini. Tornare al seme del problema. Capire perché il “biologico” è così importante per tutti e perché va perseguito senza esitazioni. Ma senza per questo perdere i buoni frutti del progresso. <em>Ermanno Olmi</em> usa stesso procedimento con questo film. Torna al documentario, alle proprie origini, quando riprendeva le condizioni del lavoro in fabbrica e le conseguenze sulla società. Ma adesso sono passati diversi decenni e il concetto di Industria si è spostato all’agricoltura e a tutto ciò che è riconducibile al cibo. Stanno scomparendo i contadini che usano le mani e il bastone per arare il proprio campo o i pescatori come i coniugi olandesi che buttano le reti tra i polders e vanno a pestare l’acqua per far muovere i pesci perchè non pescano a largo o gli allevatori che lasciano ampi spazi al proprio bestiame per andare a procacciarsi il foraggio naturale. Questa era una delle maggiori preoccupazioni del WTO di Seattle nel 1999, quando vide la luce il movimento no-global. Ma sicuramente anche di Slow Food Italia e del suo presidente<em> Carlo Petrini</em>, tanto da organizzare un evento di rimando mondiale sull’argomento: Terra Madre, appunto. Si parte da un brano de Le Georgiche di Virgilio interpretate dalla voce narrante di Omero Antonutti, passando dalle interviste e dalla telecamera sul cavalletto per inquadrare i volti, le scarpe e i corpi dei partecipanti al Terra Madre 2006, svoltosi a Torino. Non tralasciando le loro storie. Così che dal ritorno alle origini contadine di una senzatetto in India, si parla della lotta al diritto di “selvaticità” degli Indiani d’America oppure delle peculiarità di alcune colture degli Indios sudamericani. Sorvolando una norvegese isola dell’arcipelago delle Svalbard, Spitsbergen, dove dal 2008 si stanno immagazzinando i semi in una “Banca mondiale del seme” costruita dentro ad un blocco di ghiaccio. Per evitare forse di essere salvati dal wall-e di turno e dunque prevenire l’estinzione certa della vegetazione a causa del riscaldamento globale o di una guerra nucleare. Usa immagini di repertorio, interviste, pochissimi commenti off e molta telecamera ferma. Statica. Lascia che il Documentario cresca e gonfi un’onda capace di travolgere lo spettatore. O quantomeno lo obbliga ad un linguaggio antico come l’odore di legna vera (e non pellet) arsa nel camino. E aspetta che insegni, come etimologia vuole (dal latino Doceo), la dinamica della natura. Per essere più incisivo il regista bergamasco affida il finale ad un pezzo di un film di Franco Piavoli da Pozzolengo (Bs), “Al primo soffio di vento” del 2002. Un contadino interpreta se stesso. Solca il suo orto con un bastone e mette i semi uno ad uno come se mettesse a dormire i propri nipoti. Raccoglie i frutti e li cataloga. Poi si siede in adorazione di questo scambio di coccole, innaffiato con il sudore e la pazienza. Nel frattempo si sono alternati mesi di pioggie, insetti, vento e animali da cortile che si alimentavano. Ed questo il messaggio che sembrano aver raccolto dei quindicenni del Massachussets (USA). Dall’altro capo mondo. Non sono dei ricercatori. Non sono degli agronomi. Non sono contadini. Ma con il loro “Progetto Germoglio” hanno piantato dei semi nel giardino della scuola. Hanno scommesso di poter mangiare un giorno alla settimana quello che coltivavano. La loro mensa adesso ha solo i frutti del loro giardino. E anche le mense di tutti gli altri istituti negli Stati Uniti fino al Senegal (!), che hanno aderito a questo progetto. Per cui la speranza è viva. La Cineteca di Bologna, patria ufficiale di tutti gli studenti di cinema, per la prima volta non finanzia un restauro di un film, ma produce in prima persona un film. Dopo anni di attiva proposizione di eventi in tutto il mondo attraverso il restauro di capolavori della storia del cinema (ricordiamo anche l’esclusivo archivio <em>Chaplin</em>), scende in campo per piantare questo seed-ocumentary. E tutti noi gliene rendiamo merito. Curiosità: esiste anche un altro film dal titolo <em>Terra Madre</em>, targato <em>Alessandro Blasetti </em>del 1931 dove un duca eredita delle terre e le vuole vendere perché abita in città. Verrà convinto a non farlo dalla “bontà” della qualità della vita, ma soprattutto delle sue abitanti. Filmetto di propaganda fascista, che non riuscì a far esprimere al massimo neanche un artista poliedrico come il regista di <em>Quattro passi tra le nuvole</em>.</p>
<p style="text-align:center;"><img class="aligncenter" title="Volti" src="http://images.movieplayer.it/2009/02/03/immagine-del-film-terra-madre-di-ermanno-olmi-104456.jpg" alt="" width="349" height="480" /></p>
<pre style="text-align:center;"><em>(I Volti della Terra Madre)</em></pre>
<pre style="text-align:center;"><em><img class="aligncenter" title="Mondi a confronto" src="http://images.movieplayer.it/2009/02/03/una-sequenza-del-film-terra-madre-di-ermanno-olmi-104452.jpg" alt="" width="480" height="323" />
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<pre style="text-align:center;"><em>(Diversi mondi a confronto durante il meeting)</em></pre>
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<title><![CDATA[Carlo Petrini sull'agricoltura: il made in Italy della terra (la Repubblica del 07.04.09).]]></title>
<link>http://beneventoecosolidale.wordpress.com/2009/04/10/carlo-petrini-sullagricoltura-il-made-in-italy-della-terra-la-repubblica-del-07-04-09/</link>
<pubDate>Fri, 10 Apr 2009 22:09:06 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>avampost</dc:creator>
<guid>http://beneventoecosolidale.wordpress.com/2009/04/10/carlo-petrini-sullagricoltura-il-made-in-italy-della-terra-la-repubblica-del-07-04-09/</guid>
<description><![CDATA[di CARLO PETRINI L&#8217;agricoltura in Italia determina la formazione del 15% del Pil relativo all]]></description>
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