Osteria

Slow Food is a global, grassroots organization with more than 200,000 supporters in the USA. It was founded in 1989 to prevent the disappearance of local food traditions, counteract the rise of fast life, and combat people's dwindling interest in the food they eat, where it comes from, and how food choices affect the world around us. Founded in Italy, it is now active in more than 160 countries and involves millions of participants. Slow Food runs two international conferences annually and organizes hundreds of other events, both through its headquarters and via its more than 1,500 local chapters. Slow Food has become a force to be reckoned with, probably the only international organization that integrates concerns about the environment, tradition, labor, health, animal welfare ... along with real cooking, taste, and pleasure. - Mark Bittman, The New York Times.

"The international organization scoured the Italian countryside to collect recipes from homegrown chefs who share their knowledge of local ingredients, cooking techniques that vary from region to region  (and even from town to town), and charming culinary customs."—Publishers Weekly "Slow Food, the international defender of local food traditions, scoured the countryside of every region of Italy to collect and share the best traditional recipes from osterie, the humble local taverns that preserve the heritage of true Italian cooking. OSTERIA: 1,000 GENEROUS AND SIMPLE RECIPES FROM ITALY’S BEST LOCAL RESTAURANTS is the culmination of that research — offering recipes that highlight ingenuity with rustic ingredients and the warm hospitality of these off-the-beaten-track gems where we all dream of dining."—Slow Food USA