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SAN FRANCISCO - In a country of drive-thru dinners and 30-minute meals, cooking could be more burdened than haute. So advocates of the slow food act are planning what they bill as a "World's Fair of food" in up coming year.

"The challenge, the game, really starts here in America," said Carlo Petrini, the Italian creator of the "slow food" movement, which emphasizes a return to local traditions and home cuisine from local, sustainable developed ingredients. "The country that invented fast food can propose slow food."