One of the key principles of slow food culture is seasonality. This stands in contrast to fast food culture’s fixation on availability. Fast food culture is driven by its own kind of atemporal idealism that floats above the realities of time—it contrives a “nowhen” by making everything available everywhere, all the time.1 “We have been conditioned to expect the endless bounty of summer foods through every season, even though that’s simply not how nature works.”
