Slow Food is an international, non-profit organization with members and supporters all over the world, who connect the pleasure of good food with a commitment to their community and the environment. Promoted as an alternative to fast food, Slow Food seeks to protect traditional and regional cuisines from extinction, to encourage agriculture with plants, seeds and livestock characteristic of the local ecosystem and the production of food whose technology is based on the knowledge of the local population. It seeks to realize its goals for sustainable food and the promotion of local small producers through an agenda aimed at opposing the globalization of agriculture and gastronomy.

Founded by Carlo Petrini in 1986 in Italy as a protest by a small group of people, Slow Food is today an international movement with over 100,000 members from 160 countries in 1,500 local organizations (conviviums). The organizational structure is decentralized: each convivium has a leader who is responsible for promoting the Slow Food philosophy by promoting and supporting local artisans, farmers, and chefs through local and international events such as workshops, tastings, fairs, and markets.

The organization headquarters are in Bra, a small town near Turin, northern Italy. The organization today organizes several international events and also has its own publishing house, which has numerous publications in several languages.