Carlo Petrini (born 22 June 1949), born in the commune of

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province of Cuneo Cuneo (Italian), or Coni (Piedmontese), is a province in the southwest of the Piedmont region of Italy. To the west it borders on the French region of Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur ( departments of Alpes-Maritimes, Alpes-de-Haute-Provence and Haut ...

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, is the founder of the International

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Movement. He first came to prominence in the 1980s for taking part in a campaign against the fast food chain

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opening near the

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. In 1983, he helped to create and develop the Italian non-profit food and wine association known as Arcigola. Petrini 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 ''

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''. 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 on ''

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''. In October 2004, he founded the

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, a university devoted to new gastronomists and innovators of

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. He was chosen as one of ''

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'' magazine's heroes of the year.''The Slow Revolutionary'', Time, 3 October 2004
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(center-left wing). Petrini was proposed for politician roles (as Minister). Carlo Petrini has received awards and rewards including: Communicator of the Year at the

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; Sicco Mansholt Prize in the

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; honorary degree in cultural anthropology from the

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; and

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Science and Media Prize from

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. Carlo Petrini is the recipient of the Lifetime Achievement Award (

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) in 2013. __NOTOC__

References

Bibliography

https://web.archive.org/web/20090428215643/http://www.practicallyedible.com/edible.nsf/pages/slowfood *''Slow Food Nation: Why Our Food Should Be Good, Clean, and Fair'', Rizzoli, May 2007, *''Slow Food Revolution: A New Culture for Dining and Living'' in conversation with

Gigi Padovani Gigi Padovani was born in Alba in 1953, and has worked as a reporter for ''La Stampa ''La Stampa'' (meaning ''The Press'' in English) is an Italian daily newspaper published in Turin, Italy. It is distributed in Italy and other European natio ...

, Rizzoli, September 2006, *''Slow Food: The Case for Taste (Arts & Traditions of the Table: Perspectives on Culinary History)'', Columbia University Press, April 2003,
''Slow Food Nation''
a speech at Princeton University, 17 May 2007.

External links

Carlo Petrini: The slow food star
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'', Allison Roberts, December 2006
Slow Food guru spreads gospel in high places
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'', Jasper Gerard, June 17, 2007
2006 Speech (simultaneously translated)
from the Environmental Grantmakers Association, Fall Retreat Keynote *, San Francisco, October 2005 {{DEFAULTSORT:Petrini, Carlo 1949 births Living people People from Bra, Piedmont Italian activists Italian columnists Italian male writers Italian communists Italian ecologists La Repubblica people

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