b'An international movement sprang up around these principles. Every two years, many thousands, from more than 100 countries, gather in Turin, Italy, for Terra Madredays of workshops, tastings, talks and enough conviviality to flush even the most hardened skeptics heart with hope. This is a great commingling of food communities, self-organizing to cele-brate and defend local food traditions, biodiversity and small producers, and through slow food programs and events, seeing themselves as part of what Slow Food founder Carlo Petrini calls virtuous globalization.122'