Carlo Petrini

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Carlo Petrini (born June 22, 1949), born in the province of Cuneo in the commune Bra in Italy, is the founder of the International Slow Food Movement. He first came to prominence in the 1980s for taking part in a campaign against the fast food chain McDonald's opening near the Spanish Steps in Rome.^[1]

In 1977, Petrini began contributing culinary articles to communist daily newspapers il manifesto and l'Unità.^[1] He is an editor of multiple publications at the publishing house Slow Food Editore and writes several weekly columns for La Stampa. He was one of Time Magazine's heroes of 2004. In 2004, he founded the University of Gastronomic Sciences, a school intended to bridge the gap between agriculture and gastronomy.

In order to strengthen his campaign against intensive food production, he refers to the Pope's call for the protection of local agriculture, despite the renowned papal support for unsustainable population growth.

Contents 1 References 2 Bibliography 3 See also 4 External links

[edit] References

[edit] Bibliography

http://www.practicallyedible.com/edible.nsf/pages/slowfood

• Slow Food Nation: Why Our Food Should Be Good, Clean, and Fair, Rizzoli, May 2007, ISBN 0847829456
• Slow Food Revolution: A New Culture for Dining and Living in conversation with Gigi Padovani, Rizzoli , September 2006, ISBN 0847828735
• Slow Food: The Case for Taste (Arts & Traditions of the Table: Perspectives on Culinary History), Columbia University Press , April 2003, ISBN 0231128444
• Slow Food Nation, a speech at Princeton University, 17 May 2007.

[edit] See also

• Michael Pollan
• Luigi Veronelli

[edit] External links

• Time Heroes 2004
• Biography from Regione Piemonte
• Carlo Petrini: The slow food tsar , The Independent, Allison Roberts, December 2006
• Slow Food guru spreads gospel in high places, The Observer, Jasper Gerard, June 17, 2007
• 2006 Speech (simultaneously translated) from the Environmental Grantmakers Association, Fall Retreat Keynote
• Carlo Petrini speaks at Cowell Theater, San Francisco, October 2005

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