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Slow Foods Nation Convenes in San Francisco. Jane Black, WashPost, August 30, 2008. “This weekend... tens of thousands of food activists gather in San Francisco for Slow Food Nation -- four days of political rallies, lectures, dinner parties and tastings. The conference, three years in the making, is the first national assembly of the American wing of Slow Food, an Italian organization founded in 1986 in reaction to the opening of a fast-food restaurant (a McDonald’s) in Rome. Food lovers, chefs and producers can wander through taste pavilions to sample artisanal cheeses, honeys and olive oils, or admire the quarter-acre ‘victory garden’ that organizers planted this summer in front of City Hall. There will be panels led by the food intelligentsia, including Michael Pollan, author of The Omnivore's Dilemma, and Fast Food Nation author Eric Schlosser. ‘Think of it as a dinner party thrown by revolutionaries,’ said Anya Fernald, Slow Food Nation's executive director.”