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slow food

slow food noun: food, in contrast to fast food, that is normally a part of a complete meal; especially the traditional cuisine of a region.

Noun

slow food (uncountable)

  1. Food, in contrast to fast food, that is normally a part of a complete meal; especially the traditional cuisine of a region.
    • I had nothing to lose but the chains, and I hoped to find down the county roads Ma in her beanery and Pap over his barbecue pit, both still serving slow food from the same place they did thirty years ago. Where-you-from-buddy restaurants.1982, William Least Heat-Moon [pseudonym; William Trogdon], Blue Highways, →ISBN, page 16

slow food meaning in Tamil

slow food in Tamil

மரபுவழி நல்லுணவாக்கல்

Origin of slow food

From fast food, popularized by the organization Slow Food.

Questions about slow food

What does slow food mean?
Slow food means food, in contrast to fast food, that is normally a part of a complete meal; especially the traditional cuisine of a region.
What is slow food in Tamil?
Slow food in Tamil is மரபுவழி நல்லுணவாக்கல். See Slow food meaning in Tamil.
What part of speech is slow food?
Slow food is a noun.

Words near slow food in the dictionary

  1. slow dancing
  2. slow down
  3. slow earthquake
  4. slow earthquakes
  5. slow fashion
  6. slow food
  7. slow head
  8. slow in
  9. slow is smooth, smooth is fast
  10. slow jam
  11. slow jams

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Adapted from Wiktionary: slow food (page history and authors); slow food (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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