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Walking up their driveway, I passed a 1990 Volkswagen. Nothing out of the ordinary about it, except for the two bumper stickers displayed on its rear window: one read, “Slow Food”; the other, “If I’m Speeding It’s Because I Have to Poop.” Chuckling, I reconciled the mixed messages, thinking the car was a hand-me-down, from parent to child. I knew that the owners, whom I was about to interview, had two teenage sons. (I was once a teenage boy myself. Enough said.) I did not think any more about those stickers until weeks later, while reading through the transcript of my interview from that day. I never asked if the messages were intentionally placed side by side, perhaps even by the parents.
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See: http://www.slowfood.com/, accessed September 19, 2016.
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Carlo Petrini. 2001. Slow Food: The Case for Taste. New York: Columbia University Press, 20.
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Ibid.
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See, for example: Rosa, Hartmut. 2005. “The Speed of Global Flows and the Pace of Democratic Politics,” New Political Science 27 (4): 445–59.
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Honore, Carl. 2002. “Haste Is Not on the Menu: The Slow Food Movement Considers Itself the Anti-McDonald’s,” National Post 30: B1–2.
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See, for example: Counihan, Carole. 1999. The Anthropology of Food and Body: Gender, Meaning, and Power. New York; London: Routledge.
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McIntyre, L., and K. Rondeau. 2011. “Individual Consumer Food Localism: A Review Anchored in Canadian Farmwomen’s Reflections,” Journal of Rural Studies 27 (2): 116–24.
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According to a USDA working group, “a food desert as a low-income census tract where a substantial number or share of residents has low access to a supermarket or large grocery store. To qualify as low-income, census tracts must meet the Treasury Department’s New Markets Tax Credit (NMTC) program eligibility criteria. Furthermore, to qualify as a food desert tract, at least 33 percent of the tract’s population or a minimum of 500 people in the tract must have low access to a supermarket or large grocery store.” USDA. [No date]. “Definition of a Food Desert,” United States Department of Agriculture, Washington, DC, http://www.ers.usda.gov/dataFiles/Food_Access_Research_Atlas/Download_the_Data/Archived_Version/archived_documentation.pdf, accessed October 9, 2016.
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On eating “white,” see, for example: Slocum, Rachel. 2007. “Whiteness, Space, and Alternative Food Practice,” Geoforum 38 (3): 520–33.
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These questions draw upon: Cresswell, Tim. 2010. “Towards a Politics of Mobility,” Environment and Planning D 28: 17–31.
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Cresswell, Tim. 2006. On the Move: Mobility in the Modern Western World. New York: Routledge.
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Montanari, Massimo. 1996. “Beware!” Slow 1 (2): 56.
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Ibid.
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