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My son is a health-conscious teenager with a six-pack – it’s me hiding the fast-food wrappers in the car after a busy day at work. ‘How can you eat that rubbish?’ And he’s right. The Slow Food Movement was founded 30 years ago to ‘counteract fast food and fast life’ in a fightback against the opening of a McDonald’s on Rome’s Spanish Steps.
Here’s my confession: I don’t like cooking. I don’t care about food. I’m a jam sandwich girl. Food is fuel. I eat what gets me from A to B. ‘But food is fuel for what?’ asks Ali Roff , our Editor-at-Large and founder of the Mindful Health Club (page 96). ‘Where are you trying to get to?’ It’s the question at the heart of my journey. I’m stuck on a treadmill of ‘do do do’ and my life is frantic. ‘What’s the point of this busyness? What truly makes you happy?’