Terra Madre: Forging a New Global Network of Sustainable Food Communities |  | Author: Carlo Petrini
Creator: Alice Waters
Publisher: Chelsea Green Publishing
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More than twenty years ago, when Italian Carlo Petrini learned that McDonald's wanted to erect its golden arches next to the Spanish Steps in Rome, he developed an impassioned response: he helped found the Slow Food movement. Since then, Slow Food has become a worldwide phenomenon, inspiring the likes of Alice Waters and Michael Pollan. Now, it's time to take the work of changing the way people grow, distribute, and consume food to a new level.On a global scale, as Petrini tells us in Terra Madre, we aren't eating food. Food is eating us.Large-scale industrial agriculture has run rampant and penetrated every corner of the world. The price of food is fixed by the rules of the market, which have neither concern for quality nor respect for producers. People have been forced into standardized, unnatural diets, and aggressive, chemical-based agriculture is ravaging ecosystems from the Great Plains to the Kalahari. Food has been stripped of its meaning, reduced to a mere commodity, and its mass production is contributing to injustice all over the world.In Terra Madre, Petrini shows us a solution in the thousands of newly formed local alliances between food producers and food consumers. And he proposes expanding these alliances-connecting regional food communities around the world to promote good, clean, and fair food.The end goal is a world in which communities are entitled to food sovereignty-allowed to choose not only what they want to grow and eat, but also how they produce and distribute it.
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 Repairing our relationship with nature April 11, 2010
Malvin (Frederick, MD USA)
2 out of 3 found this review helpful
"Terra Madre" by Slow Food founder Carlo Petrini is an inspirational book about the Terra Madre sustainable food community. Written with passion and intelligence, Mr. Petrini offers an uniquely European perspective on the crisis of capitalism and the environment. The author shares the Terra Madre network's remarkable success in uniting farmers with consumers, pointing the way towards a more sustainable and joyous world.
The book includes Mr. Petrini's opening speech at the Terra Madre gathering in Turin, Italy in 2008 where attendees representing hundreds of countries gathered to share information and promote solidarity. Mr. Petrini goes on to discuss what is meant by food community; the right to pleasure; the cultural value of food; food sovereignty; the local and natural economy; and the future. Throughout the text, the inherently wasteful and unsustainable industrial agricultural model is compared and contrasted with local, small-scale production systems. Mr. Petrini shares how the ingenuity of local producers can align with enlightened consumers who may be seeking more diverse and satisfying food choices than what is currently offered through the corporate food machine. The author's astute observations and analysis makes clear that reclaiming our right to enjoy tasty, nutritious foods might hold the key to stablizing the economy and repairing our relationship with nature and each other.
Thanks to Chelsea Green for publishing this outstanding book, which deserves to be read and appreciated by a wide audience.
A well written and translated publication May 28, 2010
El principe (USA)
This great book conveys to the reader little known information and it is encouraging to know that those on the planet who are at the bottom of the pyramid, the small workers, since the year 2005 have being recognized for their anonymous, honest contribution as farmers, fishermen, shepherds, cowboys, crafters, cooks in Turin, Italy.
I find this book has been well written and edited in its original Italian reflected in an excellent English translation turning it into a fascinating page-turner, information that is a slap in the face to big corporations which are constantly on the lurk to engulf and devour all the good that We the People had or will accomplish.
I recommend this excellent work to those who are eagerly working against evil and expecting the best to happen to the planet: liberation from the controlling negative alien evil forces that enslave the world, and our final freedom from the clutches of evil.
Read it and then give some copies away to friends and family.
Very Impressive! May 2, 2010
Elaine J. Campbell (Rancho Mirage, CA United States)
1 out of 2 found this review helpful
Not being familiar with Slow Food or Terra Madre, but having been concerned for a long time about the global industrialized state of our food, this book offers a ray of hope by a very optimistic author and I am glad to learn of it.
The idea of a global network of sustainable food communities in the face of such giants as Monsanto is refreshing to say the least, sort of a David and Goliath story. Carlo Petrini, at the helm of Slow Food, has accomplished wonders and seems to be a tireless, persistent and indomitable advocate for world health. However, the huge conglomerates are not going to go away. Can they be undermined by the small, the weak and the local combining their efforts worldwide? Or can they be reformed to place humanitarianism before profit and greed?
As one who has been concerned about GMOs contained in a vast percentage of our food supply, I was especially interested in Mr. Petrini's opinion on the subject. He is, of course, very much against seed patents (something so natural as seed should not be owned by anyone); however, his main objection to GEOs is the fact that they are too new to evaluate their effect on human health and the environment, and prematurely approved and released before having full knowledge of these factors.
I am particularly impressed by the letter at the book's end from Enzo Bianchi, Prior of Bose, in which he quotes from John of Damascus, In Defense of Icons. The gist of the quote is the idea of matter saving matter. It is most appropriate.
Several reviewers have criticized the translation of this book. I think it is an excellent translation because the translator, John Irving, seems himself to care about and meld with what he has translated. I was almost agog over his accurate choice of words and the extensiveness of his very wide and very broad vocabulary. I don't see how anyone could have done better.
The world owes Carlo Petrini a gigantic "Thank You." So I'll join with others in saying my own "Thank You" right here and right now. I feel much better for having read this book.
An eye-opening book May 18, 2010
Midwest Book Review (Oregon, WI USA)
1 out of 2 found this review helpful
Terra Madre: Forging a New Global Network of Sustainable Food Communities comes from a founder of the Slow Food Movement, which has become a world-wide phenomenon. It describes, on a global scale, the idea that food is eating us - in the form of large-scale industrial agriculture that is running rampant around the world and fixing prices without regard for quality or producers. An eye-opening book, this belongs in culinary and social issues collections alike.
Terra Madre May 9, 2010
Dr Adam Weiss (Buffalo Grove,IL.)
2 out of 4 found this review helpful
Terra Madre- World meeting of food communities event organized for the third time in 2008. The opening ceremony was held at Turin's Palaolimpico arena the same venue for the 2006 Winter Olympics. It was attended by 7,000 delegates from over 153 countries, representing about 1600 food communities: Fisherman, farmers, sheep herders, farmers, artisans, musicians, chefs all came together for workshops, forums and meetings. What an opening to a book on the subject of food sustainability3 from a worldwide view rather than just local. From the wealthy to the very poor no language barrier would prevent the gathering of these like minded people to help promote and discuss how to solve a very important barrier to quality of life now and the future.
Terra Madre ( glocalism) " by Slow Food founder Carlo Petrini is an motivating book about the Terra Madre sustainable food community. The food choices that we make day in and day out have a long term effect on not just our lives but the people around the world. The author's approach to explaining how we as people can enjoy our foods and balance out the wealth of nations at the same time to balance with nature for years to come.
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