Slow News for Today - The World Institute of Slowness

[Joel S. Berson]

Perhaps slow food must be also be prepared by slow
cooking?  (Rhetorical question.)

Slow cooking of course is cooking for a long time at a very low
temperature, in of course a slow cooker, sometimes called a "crock
pot".  Present company excluded.

Under "slow" adj., OEDs has "slow-cooked" adj. from 1893, "slow-cook"
v. from 1923, and "slow cooker" from 1947.

Joel

At 7/16/2012 07:40 AM, David Barnhart wrote:
>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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>http://listserv.linguistlist.org/cgi-bin/wa?A2=ADS-L;xBcyfQ;2002022623474705
>00D
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>See The Barnhart DICTIONARY COMPANION (Vol. 12.3, Spring 2000, p 288-9):
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>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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