Quotes from Carlo Petrini

Slow Food unites the pleasure of food with responsibility, sustainability and harmony with nature.

Food history is as important as a baroque church. Governments should recognize cultural heritage and protect traditional foods. A cheese is as worthy of preserving as a sixteenth-century building.

Any gastronome who is not an environmentalist is stupid, and any environmentalist who is not a gastronome is sad.

I believe that he who sows utopia will reap reality.

If food was no longer obliged to make intercontinental journeys, but stayed part of a system in which it can be consumed over short distances, we would save a lot of energy and carbon dioxide emissions. And just think of what we would save in ecological terms without long-distance transportation, refrigeration, and packaging--which ends up on the garbage dump anyway--and storage, which steals time, space, and vast portions of nature and beauty.

A gastronome who isn't an environmentalist is just stupid, and an environmentalist who isn't a gastronome is just sad.

The quest for slowness, which begins as a simple rebellion against the impoverishment of taste in our lives, makes it possible to rediscover taste.