7 Quotes by Carlo Petrini

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

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

A gastronomer who is not an environmentalis t is just stupid. Whereas an environmentalis t who is not a gastronomer is sad. It’s possible to change the world even while preserving the concept of the right of pleasure.

Being Slow means that you control the rhythms of your own life. You decide how fast you have to go in any context. If today I want to go fast, I go fast. If tomorrow I want to go slow, I go slow. What we are fighting for is the right to determine our own tempos.

I believe that he who sows utopia will reap reality.

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

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.