Carlo Petrini, Sobriquet "Carlìn", (born 22 June 1949) is an Italian activist, author, and founder of the International Slow Food Movement,
Early life and activist career
Petrini was born in the commune of Bra, province of Cuneo,
Italy. He was formerly a political activist in the
communist Proletarian Unity Party (
Partito di Unità Proletaria; PdUP). In 1977, he began contributing culinary articles to the communist daily newspapers
il manifesto and
l'Unità.
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.
In 1983, he helped to create and develop the Italian non-profit food and wine association known as
Arcigola.
He founded Slow Food in 1989 and became the organization's president.
He is an editor of multiple publications at the publishing house
Slow Food Editore. He has written weekly columns for
La Stampa and is currently a regular journalist to
La Repubblica. In October 2004, he founded the University of Gastronomic Sciences, a university devoted to new gastronomists and innovators of sustainable food systems. He is now a supporter and member of the Italian Democratic Party (centre-left wing). Petrini has also been proposed for politician roles, including ministerial positions.
Awards
Carlo Petrini has received numerous awards and acknowledgements including: Communicator of the Year at the International Wine and Spirit Competition in
London; Sicco Mansholt Prize in the
Netherlands; honorary degree in cultural anthropology from the University of New Hampshire; and Eckart Witzigmann Science and Media Prize from
Germany.
In 2004, he was chosen as one of
Time magazine's heroes of the year.
[ The Slow Revolutionary, Time, 3 October 2004] He was the recipient of the Lifetime Achievement Award (Champions of the Earth) in 2013.
See also
Bibliography
https://web.archive.org/web/20090428215643/http://www.practicallyedible.com/edible.nsf/pages/slowfood
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Slow Food Nation: Why Our Food Should Be Good, Clean, and Fair, Rizzoli, May 2007,
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Slow Food Revolution: A New Culture for Dining and Living in conversation with Gigi Padovani, Rizzoli, September 2006,
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Slow Food: The Case for Taste (Arts & Traditions of the Table: Perspectives on Culinary History), Columbia University Press, April 2003,
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Slow Food Nation, a speech at Princeton University, 17 May 2007.
External links
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Time Heroes 2004
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Carlo Petrini: The slow food star , The Independent, Allison Roberts, December 2006
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Slow Food guru spreads gospel in high places, The Observer, Jasper Gerard, June 17, 2007
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2006 Speech (simultaneously translated) from the Environmental Grantmakers Association, Fall Retreat Keynote
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, San Francisco, October 2005
