Slow Food: The Economy and Politics of a Global Movement - Hardcoverby Valeria Siniscalchi (Author) Written by one of the leading experts on food activism, this is the only independent, full length study of the Slow Food movement. Slow Food is a grassroots organisation that embraces a slow way of life, linking the love of food with community and environmental support. Based on three years of ethnographic fieldwork inside Slow Food's international headquarters in Italy, Valeria Siniscalchi reveals what really goes on