slow food

From fast food, popularized by the organization Slow Food.

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slow food (uncountable)

1. Food, in contrast to fast food, that is normally a part of a complete meal; especially the traditional cuisine of a region.
   • 1982, William Least Heat-Moon [pseudonym; William Trogdon], Blue Highways, →ISBN, page 16:

     I had nothing to lose but the chains, and I hoped to find down the county roads Ma in her beanery and Pap over his barbecue pit, both still serving slow food from the same place they did thirty years ago. Where-you-from-buddy restaurants.

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