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Slow Wine in Breakneck Times

As Italy's politics swings hard to the right, Slow Food in its own complicated, contradictory way, still fights the good fight.

Jason Wilson
Oct 04, 2022
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(Photo: Alessandro Vargiu / Archivio Slow Food)

It was strange to attend a Slow Food conference in Turin on the same weekend as Italian voters went to the polls to elect a “right-wing coalition led by a party descended from the remnants of fascism.” But here we were.

This was the first time that Terra Madre Salone del Gusto (as Slow Food’s biennial event…

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