Profound apologies if this has been mentioned already, but Petrini apparently wrote a letter explaining the controversial passage in question: http://blogs.menupages.com/sanfrancisco/2007/05/carlo_petrini_v_ferry_plaza_fa_1.html

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. The vision and mission statement of Slow Food USA, that food should be good, clean and just and brings community together (its founder Carlo Petrini coined the term ecogastronomy when it started back in 1986) was exemplified...

Mexico. The vision and mission statement of Slow Food USA, that food should be good, clean and just and brings community together (its founder Carlo Petrini coined the term ecogastronomy when it started back in 1986) was...

spoken in there. I went this past Monday after hearing Carlo Petrini (founder of Slow Food) speak at the Cowell Theater. Petrini and his whole Italian entourage went to A16 for dinner after as well. On the way out, I was waiting...

://www.nal.usda.gov/afsic/pubs/csa/csa.shtml Other ideas: A gift certificate for Whole Foods or your local organic food market. Some “fair trade” coffee beans (here’s one link, but if you search “fair trade...

with fresh cream. Scrumptious white sweet potato vichysoisse. Cheeses, cheeses, cheeses.... Wish I’d paid more attention to each thing I tasted, but it was such a beautiful evening, with so many interesting people to meet and...

Alice, You might want to head out to www.slowfood.com or www.slowfoodusa.org. Here’s a bit of history, courtesy of www.slowfood.com: "Slow Food was founded in Bra, in the Italian region of Piedmont in July 1986, with Carlo...

I would be interested to know what Slow Food’s take is on this issue. Carlo Petrini launched the movement while boycotting the opening of a McDonald’s in Rome in 1986. Slow Food advocates the preservation of food...