Sometimes I eat fast, sometimes I eat slow

The Gurgling Cod was gobsmacked into catatonic silence by the news of Slow Food's new corporate partners, which include Whole Foods and the Food Network.

To review, the Slow Foods movement has roots in anti-globalization, as much as epicurianism. In that respect, WF might be a good stateside partner, as both outfits seemed to have drifted from idealism (I may be thinking of  WF precursor Bread and Circus here) into a kind of conoisseurship that thinks it is idealism. If you lunch on a perfect Black Zebra tomato and buffalo mozzarella, you are a gourmet, not a revolutionary. No shame in that, but it's a difference worth not getting twisted.
 

The Food Net partnership is a little bit harder to explain. The glass half full guy  might point out that it's a partnership that will allow the SF message to reach a broader audience. The glass half empty guy will point out that this is a partnership that puts SF in bed with terrorist Dunkin Donuts pitchgal Rachael Ray, not to mention the guy with the hair that looks like frozen yak jizz who touts TGI Fridays. You ask me, bedfellows like that make for a long walk of shame over the Bay Bridge and up Shattuck Avenue, especially if you are a revolutionary.

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