Series editor's introduction
Preface to the American edition
Official slow-food manifesto
Origins ; From new epicures to ecological gastronomes ; International movement of good taste ; Pleasure denied, pleasure rediscovered ; McDonald's versus slow food
In the beginning, the territory
Cultivating diversity ; At the center, the producer ; Rebirth of the osteria ; Difficult voyage ; Salone del Gusto
Praise of the senses and the paradox of taste ; In the schools ; From the workshops to the master of food ; University
Scenes from a flood ; Ark and the presidia ; Quality, the law, and biotech ; Slow food award for the defense of biodiversity
Without Nostalgia : acknowledgments
Slow food Italian presidia ; Slow food international presidia ; Slow food award winners ; Chronology of Arcigola slow food ; Slow food U.S.A. today.