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But now a worimoVemsnt, whóse aim is tb / ślew Uh d sv/n, has siBrted acouiTferrreYdlution. Its supporters are peopłewfio belieye thata happier and healthier way of lite is poSsibie...
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The Stów Food oioYfanerit was iounded the day that ah italian joumaiist, tarło Pelrini, saw Ihat McDor.alcTs had opened a restaurant in Pia7za di Spagna, tire beautiful sąuare.in Konie: He thought it was tragifc that many peoplc totfay live loo (uiidcty to sit down for a nroner mea! and oniy eat rnasś-iiroduced fast food, He decided that he had to try to do jomethnigabout it dnd so he started the Slow '
Food movenient Aiuhough he ćiidfihsucceed m; bamung McDonald’s ffóir, F^ar/ja di Spagna, Slow Fóód has berome a global orgpnaation and now has morę than 80,000 members ta 100 countries. .
‘We be!ieve,’ says Fiona Richmond di Slow Food UK, ‘that people shouid take time tó er.joy tooii.'
Slow Food also encourages pedpłe to eatlócal and regiarral fcod, to ose ' cal shops ańd rnarfcets, to eat but iri smal! famiiy restaurapts, and to cook witti tradhionai ~opes; .Says Richmond, *7 herc is nothing morę satisfying than reiaxing arourid a -iivcly tabie in the company of famiiy and fricnds. The pleasure of eafirfg fjuaiity food shouid be cefebrated.’ S
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The iiiea of ‘GttasfoK'’ or 'Sic # Cifie;', was inspired by the SJoy' Food roorement and rt was staited bytfx hyurof the StralfTtalTantownof &eve in dłiabtFThealr.i i SiowGties is to make our towńs places wbere peopie enjoy.ffcing and wortcing, and. whćre they va:ue and profect the th-ogy that make th~ tcwn differeńt. Tcrorns which wabi to fc&cerne a Stóv'Gty have to reduce łrafSc and uoise, increase the hor :er of green areas, pi. .rtrces, S: . edestriar. zones, and jMl, > óte local iKianesfe and traddio? s.
Mahy\óther smali: tamts ińdtaly. have joined the moveinenrand it hasspread to ótfręr coiinliries a!i over the worfd, f Vm the UK tó japan and Australia. Aylsham •in ri;e UK receatiy becarne a Slow Gty, and most peopie aro dcłigittod.
‘Slow Crtks areabout hayfnga eomińunHy iife in the town, so peopte don I come hdme fttHÓ wórk, śhot tbeirdoors and thafs it,r said a-ioćal-resideńt 'tt is nćt “slcńk” as in “sfupid”. it ś “sfennf” as in the opposite offrariSc’ and “stressful”. it is abotitcjuafify of iifc.’
But not ewerybody in Aylsham is happy. For teerragers, who ltave to go 25 km to >’■ vi ’ the nearest city, .o touy tra.'iT«5 or Ok irwng «n a slo\v trty is t ot v^y a iętive. . tt\ai5herą’saysLewisCfi 16. 'Sut.tybuśyant earfteotent, have to go to t'{orv.icńŁ7//e n::ad móre things hi re for youńg pśopte.’