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Carlo Petrini, who has just died at the age of 76, pioneered the global real food movement – one founded on food culture. Here Suzanne Wynn who helped introduce Slow Food to the UK remembers him and reflects on his legacy
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by colin tudge Many were cheered by the election results in Britain on May 7 – a breath of fresh air! Hooray! But I found them seriously depressing. It is sad to see the end of Labour, possibly forever. The Tories, too, in their day, had touches of greatness. The rise and rise of the…
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Let’s take the opportunity provided by Summer to recalibrate our taste buds and season with a lighter hand.
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by colin tudge Britain has been sadly diminished these past few decades by a series of government follies. They include Eden’s hare-brained attempt in 1956 to reclaim control of Suez; Thatcher’s introduction of neoliberal economics in the 1980s; Blair’s gung-ho plunge into George W Bush’s disastrous war in Iraq in 2003; Osborne’s policy of austerity…
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By Colin Tudge Though many people in high places are in denial, no sensible – “ordinary” – person needs telling that the world is in deep trouble: deeper than ever before. There is disaster on every front: political, economic, social, ecological, climatic – and although many good things are happening the economic ideas and policies…
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A weakness of the British Food culture is that we don’t talk much about the taste and quality of food. We need to learn how to be more discerning.
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Suzanne proposes the UK Food Culture as a topic for the Renaissance Movement and invites examples worth saving.
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COLIN TUDGE PROPOSES A NEW, PEOPLE-LED INITIATIVE TO SAVE THE WORLD FROM TERMINAL DECLINE On every front there is disaster: ecological, social, political, economic, moral, spiritual; and, unsurprisingly, a pervading mood of pessimism and indeed of despair. Yet if only we – humanity – worked together, and did conceptually simple things well, we might still…