Slow News for Today - The World Institute of Slowness

[David Barnhart]

Back in 2002 a ADS list member pointed to: SLOW FOOD--The opposite of "fast
food." The sometimes accurate Wikipedia traces "slow food" back to 1986.

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See The Barnhart DICTIONARY COMPANION (Vol. 12.3, Spring 2000, p 288-9):

Traditionalists in Georgetown are fed up with the fast-food invasion and
have gone to court in behalf of the rights of slow food.  The Georgetown
Citizens Association, whose members have winced for years as the handsome
old cobbled neighborhood yielded to all manner of boutiquery and  fast-food
eatery, sued this week and charged that the area's historic Market House by
law should be used for the sale of fresh fish, meat, produce and other
traditional marketplace items.  Francis X. Clines and Phil Gailey,
"Briefing," The New York Times (Nexis), Dec. 25, 1981, p 10

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