Slow News for Today - The World Institute of Slowness

[Jesse Sheidlower]

On Mon, Jul 16, 2012 at 07:40:48AM -0400, 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
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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

See also the OED, which has a first quote for _slow food_ from 1974.
This hasn't been re-researched in five years or so, so it's possible
that further antedatings are available.

Jesse Sheidlower
OED

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