Slow News for Today - The World Institute of Slowness

[Laurence Horn]

On Jul 16, 2012, at 10:19 AM, Joel S. Berson wrote:

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

Or no cooking at all--wouldn't raw food (another movement) count as (very) slow food?  Or does "raw food" pre-empt "slow food"? (Note that raw food isn't always actually raw, just not cooked by heating above some threshold temperature whose exact identity I forget.)

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