slow food
noun [mass noun]
Food that is produced or prepared in accordance with local culinary traditions, typically using high-quality locally sourced ingredients: [as modifier]: the slow food movement...
- We went to a little Italian slow food trattoria in Hakodate and over three and a half hours had nine courses of divine food.
- We see these awards as a significant way of sustaining rural community continuity and development and building a small, slow food culture in Western Australia.
- Many have joined the ranks of the raw food movement or the slow food movement.
Origin
1970s: contrasted with fast food.