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Following the news that the OU will end its partnership with the Tesco Clubcard Rewards scheme, here is my original article in Times Higher Education (2 March 2007), warning against the scheme.So customers of the UK's largest supermarket are to be encour-aged to become students of the UK's largest higher education institution. A deal has been struck to give Tesco shoppers the opportunity to study

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14 January The Sicily Unpacked series on BBC2 has already quite an impact judging by the reviews and comments on twitter. It has been important in opening up new generations to the wonders of the island’s unique art and architecture food, history and culture and Andrew Graham-Dixon and Giorgio Locatelli are a good combination. As we found when we made the BBC Radio 4 series last spring, the

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26 August The recent UK riots – ok English riots – have brought many responses and much analysis. I have been unconvinced by much of the debate. The right favours knee-jerk responses which seem to have been reflected in some absurd prison sentences unlikely to solve the problem. They refuse to even countenance the point that there may be some underlying causes. The left, on the other hand, has

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1 May 2011Hugh’s Fish Fight, recently screened on Channel Four, is another highly publicised campaign led by a well-known TV food personality. Following Jamie Oliver’s earlier programmes on school dinners and battery chickens (something which had also engaged Hugh F-W) this has also had significant effect on public debate, raising awareness of the state of the fishing industry, the plight of

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In a recent BBC Radio Scotland lunchtime interview, I was told by the interviewer - possibly in a hurry for his supermarket sandwich - that we don’t really have time for lunch anymore. Those that do (and I imagined him pointing the finger) are clearly a privileged minority, wandering around farmers’ markets at their leisure, while ordinary folk went about their business in harsh times with great

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Open Democracy 4 April The international food debate has exploded over the last decade, extending from the many banal and trivial TV programmes - “food pornography” as some call it - to the proliferation of local food groups, the development of ideas of “slow food”, and a burgeoning interest in all aspects of the food economy. A broader politicisation of food is evident in the emergence of some

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At the BBC's Food and Farming Awards last week, the Wye Valley Brewery, a family-owned brewery in Herefordshire, won the best drinks award. This was good news for all those who appreciate great beer and support sustainable local breweries. Made from local Herefordshire hops, using traditional production methods, their beer has been commended for its subtle flavours. My own favourite is Butty Bach

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Last week, along with Dan Saladino of the Food Programme, and chefs Mark Hix and Fergus Henderson, I visited The Clink, the acclaimed restaurant located in HMP High Down in Surrey. It is a very important initiative; the food is very good,and it is becoming an increasingly popular lunchtime venue, with tables fully booked until Christmas. It owes a lot to the inspiration of Alberto Crisci who, as

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Terra Madre, Slow Food's biennial gathering of food producers, chefs, farmers,food activists and academics, had a particular theme for its 2010 edition, held at the end of October in Turin. This was the focus on indigenous communities. It was not merely a celebration of diversity, though in an increasingly homogeneous, market driven world of industrialised food, that in itself is important.

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Andrew Hussey's culinary tour of northern Britain, shown on BBC Four this week, was an excellent insight into the relationship between food and identity and gave some popular meaning and application to the concept of 'terroir' in a working class British context. In search of 'lobscouse' in Liverpool, meat and potato pie in Wigan, Tripe in Bolton (available at the excellent market there) and West

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Four years ago I wrote an article for Open Democracy on Sicily’s ‘other story’, namely the movements which have grown in opposition to the power of the mafia, political inertia and the fatalism embedded in everyday life. This ‘other story’, the phrase used by Rita Borsellino in her election campaign at that time, was comprised of an underlying belief in truth and justice, the importance of ethics

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If asked where the strength of Slow Food Italy can be found, many people might assume it would be in Tuscany, Umbria – the image of Italy for thousands of British holidaymakers – or Piedmont, where the international offices of Slow Food are based, in the small town of Bra. Yet Sicily has the most Slow Food presidia products - those deemed to be of outstanding quality, derived from a long history

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Geoff Andrews will be talking about the Slow Food Story in Washington DC at the end of August. More details to follow

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At the end of May into the beginning of June I attended Salina Isola Slow, the annual event organised by Slow Food Valdemone and held on the beautiful Aeolian island of Salina, made famous by Michael Radford’s film Il Postino. I was there to give a presentation of the Italian edition of the Slow Food Story. The night before, in Messina, I had given another talk in Circolo Pickwick, an excellent

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Last week I gave a short talk at Warwick Arts Centre following a showing of the film Food Inc. This film, one of a new genre of food documentaries, is a powerful critique of the industrial food system and the consequences industrial agriculture has had for health and the environment. The participation of food writers Michael Pollan and Eric Schlosser gave the film a cutting edge and it has had a

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My trip to Canada in May, the tenth country I’ve visited for Slow Food purposes, provided more confirmation that Slow Food is capable of developing a presence in places of widely different histories and food traditions. At Slow Food Nation in San Francisco in 2008 – the biggest Slow Food event held outside Italy – it was the energy of the younger participants and the political commitment to the

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Geoff Andrews will be presenting the Italian edition of the Slow Food story: Slow Food: una storia tra politica e piacere, recently published by Il Mullino, in Messina at the Pickwick bookshop on 27 May and will also present the book during the 'Salina Slow' festival on 29 May. Details here: Circolo Pickwick http://www.libreriacircolopickwick.it/Giovedì 27 Maggio ore 18.30Grande occasione quella

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Jean-Anthelme Brillat Savarin's The Physiology of Taste, published in 1825, argued in its 'third meditation' that before too long there would be an 'academy of gastronomers'. Now, nearly two hundred years later, it seems his dream is finally being realised, in Italy, the US, even...in the UK? Listen to the 'New Gastronomy' programme on the Radio 4 iplayer

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3 FebruaryHere is Carlo Petrini's response in La Repubblica to the launch of the McItaly burger last week. (Thanks to www.slowfood.com for translation). It follows Guardian food editor Matthew Fort's earlier criticism on January 28. "If ever there was a sign of the moral bankruptcy of Silvio Berlusconi's government, it is the sight of a McDonald's apron wrapped around the svelte frame of the

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4 January 2010The Open University in the West Midlands is currently involved in several projects to generate interest in the region's food heritage at a time when many local products are in danger of being forgotten. We will be organising a series of discussions with local producers of apples, cider, beef, cheese, perry, amongst others, and will be working in association with the West Midlands

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24 November 20091/ To recognise that gastronomy is a true science in its own right, which cuts across traditional disciplinary boundaries from the humanities to natural science, social science and environmental studies, encompassing in the words of Jean-Anthelme Brillat-Savarin in the Physiologie du Gout, ‘analytical knowledge of everything related to man’s eating’.2/ To understand the costs

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SOCIETY AND THE MODERN WORLD, Saturday 29 August 12.00pm, Charlotte Square Gardens, Edinburgh.Fed-up with the quick-fix approach to life? Hear two writers argue for a different ethos. Geoff Andrews discusses the Slow Food movement which promotes organic, local production, in opposition to the fast food chains and supermarkets. Andrew Price believes the modern world has put its faith in high-tech

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Seminar organised by the Open University and the Bulmer Foundation, Thursday 2 July, at the Bulmer Foundation, Wye Street Hereford, from 10.30-3pm, will look at the prospect for a food studies curriculum for Herefordshire. Speakers include Geoff Andrews, Shirley Alikhan, Tom Jaine, Joanna Lewis from the Soil Association, Jackie Schneider from Sustain, Henry Hoffman, University of Gastronomic

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Slow Fish is a biennial event organised by Slow Food and which takes place in Genoa. The main purpose of Slow Fish is to find ways to protect small scale fishing communities; to promote sustainable methods of fishing and to preserve the distinctive and often ignored varieties of fish species. One of the many Slow Fish stories this year was that of the native Fal Oyster, caught using very

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Geoff will be speaking about the Slow Food Story and signing copies of the book at the Berks and Wilts Slow Food convivium on Tuesday 10 March at Cobbs Farm Shop, Bath Road, Hungerford, Berkshire. Further details at gdever@mindspring.com

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Geoff Andrews will be speaking at the Exploring Food, Connecting Communities at the British Museum (Clore Centre)on Sunday 8 March 10.30-4.30pm. further details from Nafisa Fera education@therai.org.uk. This event has been organised as part of the ESRC's Festival of Social Science.

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9 january 2009Some have depicted this year’s festive season as the ‘tight Christmas’, with spending only half that of last year. In difficult times, food is normally the first sacrifice. Will that inevitably mean shifting to an inferior diet, while weakening our ecological consciousness? With the credit crunch kicking in, many believe consumers will increasingly look for the cheapest deals, with

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See Steven Poole's review in The Guardian Saturday 29 November http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2008/nov/29/slow-food-story-goeff-andrews

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Geoff Andrews will be at the BBC Good Food Show in London on 15 November and Birmingham 26 November to sign copies of The Slow Food Story http://www.bbcgoodfoodshow.com/

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Geoff Andrews will be talking about the Slow Food Story and signing copies of the book at the Peckham Literary Festival on Saturday 22 November at 5pm in Persepolis bookshop. http://www.peckhamliteraryfestival.co.uk/

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Geoff Andrews will sign copies of The Slow Food Story at theSlow Food UK receptionSalone del Gusto, Lingotto, Turin, 2008Stand A54, Pavilion 1 Saturday 25th October @ 5pm - 7pmHe will also be speaking at the Oxon slow food group dinner on Thursday 30 October, at The Anchor, Hayfield Road, Oxford, 7pm. Full details here: http://www.slowfood-oxon.org.uk/node/225For full details of all book signings

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Geoff Andrews will be speaking about the Slow Food Story at the Ludlow Food Festival (http://www.foodfestival.co.uk/) on Sunday 14 September and the South Bank Festival of Food on Thursday 18 September (http://www.slowfoodlondon.com/) . For full details of these and other talks in the UK please contact Jon Wheatley at Pluto Press (jonw@plutobooks.com

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The Globe and Mail 30 AugustSlow down, you're eating too fastBy SASHA CHAPMANSaturday, August 30, 2008THE SLOW FOOD STORYPolitics and PleasureBy Geoff AndrewsMcGill-Queen's University Press,Never before has grocery shopping been so politicized, as a growing number of people (mostly middle-class and educated) shell out dollar after dollar to buy sustainably grown heirloom tomatoes and fair trade

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Geoff Andrews will be signing copies of The Slow Food Story: Politics and Pleasure, published by McGill-Queens University Press, at Slow Food Nation in San Francisco on Saturday 30 August, then in Madison, Wisconsin onThursday 4 September (details herehttp://slowfooduw.wordpress.com/future-events/fdngeoffandrews/Geoff Andrews Attends Slow Food NationGeoff Andrews will be signing copies of his

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Independent 5 August 2008'Demand for Local Markets Will Grow'By Scott RussonDr Geoff Andrews, the author of a new book on the Slow Food movement, tells Scott Russon why politicians must focus on long- term, localised solutions to the global food crisisThe first in-depth study of the politics of the Slow Food movement has been published by Dr Geoff Andrews, a social scientist at the Open

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26 MayFood now dominates the political agendas of many Western countries. Government policies on curbing obesity, concern over factory farming and the costs of maltreatment of animals, mounting ‘food miles’ accumulated by the increasingly diverse items sold throughout the year in multinational supermarkets, as well as a rising number of alternative consumption movements and the desire for local

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The gastronomy, politics and citizenship seminar held at the Open University this week set in place some new international networks on the new politics of food. The lively and stimulating discussion addressed topics such as whether gastronomy should be given status as an academic subject area in its own right, the politics of the new social movements that have grown around food, such as Slow Food

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A seminar on Gastronomy, Politics and Citizenship will be held at The Open University on 28-29 April 2008. This has been organised under the auspices of the Social Science Faculty’s Centre For Citizenship, Identity and Governance and will feature a range of international scholars, practitioners and research students. You can email me for further details.

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The dramatic resurgence of food to the top of the political agendas of many western countries has brought many new dilemmas. One is trying to decipher truth from fiction in the voluminous material on health, diet, and the environment that we are offered through the media. Another is whether the traditional ‘experts’ – food scientists, nutritionists and dieticians – can any longer be trusted,

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