Carlo Petrini

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Carlo Petrini, 2010
Petrini during the SchnippelDisko in Berlin 2014

Carlo Petrini (born June 22, 1949 in Bra , Piedmont ) is an Italian publicist , sociologist and founder of the international Slow Food movement.

Life

Petrini was born the son of a railroad worker. He was initially acolyte and chairman of the diocesan youth in Bra. After studying sociology in Trento , he became involved in politics. He was elected to a city council of Bra in the 1970s through the list of Partito di Unità Proletaria (PdUP). At times he operated an unlicensed radio station in Bra, whose closure prominent friends such as Dario Fo and Fabrizio de André were able to prevent through personal presence.

Since 1977 he has been writing about food and drink in Italian magazines and was involved in founding the magazine Gambero Rosso , which was initially a monthly supplement to the daily Il Manifesto .

Petrini founded the Society of Friends of Barolo in the 1980s .This was a reaction to the then publicized Panschen von Barolo red wine with methanol . From this, Arcigola developed in July 1986 , an association with strong references to Gambero Rosso and the magazine La Gola (Gluttony). The trigger for founding Slow Food was the opening of a McDonald’s branch in 1986 on the Piazza Navona in Rome, which is surrounded by ancient and baroque buildings . As a protest against this, Petrini organized a public spaghetti dinner at the Spanish Steps . On December 9, 1989, the international Slow Food movement was founded in Paris . In Turin he created the Salone del Gusto (Salon of Taste) with Slow Food and the gastronomic Università di Scienze Gastronomiche in Pollenzo .

Petrini was co-editor of the world wine guide and the wine guide Vini d'Italia . With the restaurant guide Osterie d'Italia , he triggered a return to the gastronomic traditions of Italy. He is the author of the left-liberal daily La Repubblica .

In 2004, on his initiative, a conference of the farmers' network Terra Madre took place in Turin , the first world meeting of almost 5,000 farmers. The patron was Prince Charles . It was repeated in 2006 and 2008. In 2009, the documentary film Terra Madre by Ermanno Olmi premiered at the Berlinale .

In 2006 Petrini gave up the chairmanship of Slow Food Italy , but remained President of Slow Food International . The following year he was re-elected for four years in Puebla, Mexico.

Awards

bibliography

  • Carlo Petrini: Terra Madre. Come non farci mangiare dal cibo. Giunti, 2009. English: Terra Madre. Forging a New Global Network of Sustainable Food Communities. Chelsea Green, 2010, ISBN 978-1-60358-263-6 .
  • Carlo Petrini: Buono, Pulito e Giusto , Einaudi, Milano. German: Good, clean and fair. Basics of a new gastronomy. TreTorri, Wiesbaden 2007, ISBN 978-3-937963-55-6 .
  • Carlo Petrini: Slow Food. Le ragioni del gusto. Laterza. German: Slow Food - Enjoy with mind. Rotpunktverlag , Zurich 2003, ISBN 3-85869-263-8 .
  • Carlo Petrini: Atlante delle vigne di Langa. Barolo e Barbaresco. Slow Food Editore.
  • Carlo Petrini, Gigi Garanzini: In Francia con l'Italia. Baldini e Castoldi Dalai.
  • Carlo Petrini, Marisa Radaelli, Carlo Leidi: La morra nel cuore del Barolo. Storie e immagini di una delle capitali del vino. GRH.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c Ursula Heinzelmann: “Unrestrained consumption must stop” , FAS , November 7, 2010, interview.
  2. ↑ Terra Madre , Berlinale 2009 , ( PDF file; 135 kB).
  3. ↑ Laudation by Alain Ducasse : The Slow Revolutionary ( Memento of July 28, 2011 in the Internet Archive ), TIME Europe magazine, October 11, 2004 (English).
  4. ↑ Carlo Petrini, Slow Food di fondatore, nominato Ambasciatore Speciale della FAO in Europe by Fame Zero
personal data
SURNAME Petrini, Carlo
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Italian publicist
DATE OF BIRTH June 22, 1949
PLACE OF BIRTH Bra (Piedmont)