"A
lot of folks take a condescending view of the local dimension. They say
your products are too minor, too marginal-but the opposite is true. If
you join together as one, you small-scale producers arguably form the
biggest food multinational of all. The difference is that you don't
produce standardization or pollution...
or poverty. You produce wealth, diversity, exchange, preservation of
memory, and progress. Here we have the values of the local economy."
-Carlo Petrini
Founder, Slow Food