Cover -- Half title -- Title -- Copyright -- Series Page -- Contents -- Foreword -- Series Editor's Introduction -- Preface -- Preface to the American Edition -- The Official Slow Food Manifesto -- 1: Appetite and Thought -- The Origins -- From "New Epicures" to Ecological Gastronomes -- An International Movement of Good Taste -- Pleasure Denied, Pleasure Rediscovered -- McDonald's Versus Slow Food -- 2: In the Beginning, the Territory -- Cultivating Diversity -- At the Center, the Producer -- The Rebirth of the Osteria -- The Difficult Voyage -- The Salone del Gusto -- 3: Educating and Learning -- The Praise of the Senses and the Paradox of Taste -- In the Schools -- From the Workshops to the Master of Food -- The University -- 4: The Noah Principle -- Scenes from a Flood -- The Ark and the Presidia -- Quality, the Law, and Biotech -- The Slow Food Award for the Defense of Biodiversity -- Without Nostalgia: Acknowledgments -- Appendices -- The Slow Food Italian Presidia -- The Slow Food International Presidia -- Slow Food Award Winners -- A Chronology of Arcigola Slow Food -- Slow Food U.S.A. Today -- Notes -- Select Bibliography -- Index -- Courtesy.