Just when I thought the Slow Food Movement couldn't be more fairy tale and downright boring (happy farmers gently chauffeuring their harvested jewels to the Ferry Building Farmers Market), along comes some spice in the rub, courtesy of the ever-entertaining SF Chronicle.
It turns out that the founder of the Slow Food Movement, Carlo Petrini, dissed the Ferry Building Farmer's Market. The holy shrine temple of the slow food movement in North America. And he dissed the farmers at the market. This wasn't an offhand remark - he immoralized these words in his new book. Co-written by Bay Area legend and Ferry Building supporter Alice Waters. Which made a scheduled book signing event at Book Passages in the Ferry Building a teensy bit uncomfortable, and therefore it was cancelled.
And Carlo will be back. Did I mention the giant international Slow Food Movement event that SF is hosting next May? This will be very interesting to watch...
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