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Which former tennis star would you like to go up against in their prime? Michael Petrini Jr. INDEPENDENCE...
...humble, often recycled materials while the latter marked a return to painting after it fell out of fashion during the postmodern art movements of the '60s and '70s. And surely it is no mere cultural accident that Italy's biggest recent contribution to the international Zeitgeist is Carlo Petrini's Slow Food movement...
...great Italian food expert Carlo Petrini points out in his newly translated Slow Food Nation (Rizzoli; 262 pages), agriculture has become "completely detached from the lives of billions of people, as if procuring food had become a matter of course and required no effort at all." But one way or another, we will pay for all that we're eating. CHEAP EATS Percentage of disposable income Americans spend on food [This article contains a chart. Please see hardcopy of magazine...
...would like to nominate Carlo Petrini, who was the founder of the slow-food movement. That organized rebuke of fast-food culture began in Italy and has since grown into an international force for pleasant living, sustainable agriculture, heritage animal protection and even cultural survival. It is still largely under the mainstream's radar, but its trade shows in Torino, Italy, regularly attract 140,000 people...
...dinner, but already in the U.S. there are 1,500 members dispersed into 21 chapters, or what Slow Food poetically calls convivia, derived from the Latin word meaning festive. Lately many convivia have been forced to turn away people lest the groups risk losing their intimacy. Petrini sees promise in such American phenomena as the rise of microbreweries in a market long dominated by a handful of beer conglomerates. He points out that with its immigrant influences and agricultural diversity, the U.S. should be hospitable to spreading the Slow Food philosophy. "Europeans are skilled at defending their heritage," he says...