14-11-2017
The Slow-food manifesto published on the 3rd November 1987 in Gambero Rosso, with a snail designed by Gianni Sassi
The cover of Slow Food. Storia di un’utopia possibile, by Carlo Petrini and Gigi Padovani, Giunti-Slow Food Editore, 356 pages, September 2017, 18 euros (15,30 euros when buying it here)
The Slow-food manifesto, published on the 3rd November 1987 in Gambero Rosso, with a snail designed by Gianni Sassi
Carlin Petrini at Terra Madre
Taking a step back. The beginning of Slow Food: Cantè i'euv in 1979
Cantè i'euv in 1979. Petrini, is the fourth from the left
The first issue of La Gola, in October 1982
The first wine guide, in 1988
The Arcigola membership card 1988
The Arcigola membership card 1989
The first Slow Food membership card, in 1990
A souvenir photo from the congress in Paris in 1989
The congress in Venice in 1990
Slow Food magazine, 1993
Petrini with the Nete twins and Carlo Rambaldi in Sanremo
The Nineties: Giovanni Ravinale, Carlìn Petrini, Azio Citi
1996: first Salone del Gusto in Torino
1996: Laboratorio del Gusto at the first Salone in Torino
A vignette from 1996
2003: Vandana Shiva, Carlo Petrini and Alice Waters
Petrini in 2004 with the then president of Regione Piemonte, Enzo Ghigo, and the then mayor of Torino Sergio Chiamparino
The first Terra Madre in 2004
Petrini, Vandana Shiva and Enzo Bianchi at Terra Madre in 2004
2006: Charles, Prince of Wales in Pollenzo
Petrini in Kenia in 2012
Petrini in Berlin in 2014
Expo Milano in 2015
Terra Madre in 2016
Terra Madre in Torino in 2016
In the Balkans in 2016
Professors at Università di Scienze Gastronomiche in Pollenzo
Università di Scienze Gastronomiche in Pollenzo
Graduation Day in Pollenzo
An event in the United States, this year
There was no sign of chefs and cooking on television. Corrado was hosting Il pranzo è servito on Canale 5 at 1 pm but it was a quiz show. A few years earlier Stefano Bonilli hosted Di tasca nostra, a show for consumers, but there was no trace of it. The Ristoranti d’Italia dell’Espresso guide, inspired by French Gault&Millau, was meant for professionals: it was directed by a famous “fake beard” (the term used for secret agents), Federico Umberto D’Amato, whose identity was unknown to most, as he was head of the Private Affairs Office at the Ministry of Internal Affairs. Newspapers had a page dedicated to agriculture: I used to write about wine, from time to time, in the one edited by La Stampa. The only specialised magazine with a decent national distribution was historic Cucina Italiana, with many recipes and little news. When on the 16th December 1986 the eight-page insert was published with il manifesto, the response was sceptical. How long would it last?
Paris, 1989: it’s the 21st December, at Opéra-Comique the International Movement for the Defense of and the Right to Pleasure is officially born. The manifesto is signed by delegates from Argentina, Austria, Brazil, Denmark, France, Germany, Japan, Italy, The Netherlands, Spain, United States, Sweden, Switzerland, Hungary, Venezuela
Carlin Petrini and Dario Fo
Petrini speaking from the microphone in 1989 in Paris; next to him Folco Portinari
Valentino Parlato and Stefano Bonilli
An Arcigola membership card from 1987
It was a rather snob and “situationist” break against the “comrades” who had become used to sloppy, anonymous food.
Petrini at a parade in Torino for Terra Madre in 2016
Petrini with Gigi Padovani
2006: a thousand chefs at Salone del Gusto-Terra Madre
Petrini in Peru in 2015
Slow Food. Storia di un’utopia possibile by Carlo Petrini and Gigi Padovani Giunti-Slow Food Editore, 356 pages, September 2017, 18 euros (15,30 euros if you buy it here)
Reviews, recommendations and trends from Italy, signed by all the authors of Identità Golose
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Born in Alba (Cn) in 1953, he’s a journalist and writer. He’s worked at La Stampa for 26 years, as reporter and senior editor, and now collaborates with Leggo and various publications. He received many awards, including Bancarella Cucina and Prix de la Littérature Gastronomique 2017 from the Académie Internationale de la Gastronomie. A culinary critic, he’s written over 20 books, alone or with his wife Clara. The latest include: Street food all’italiana (Giunti 2013), Mondo Nutella (Rizzoli 2014), L’arte di bere il vino e vivere felici (Centauria 2016), Tiramisù (Giunti 2016)