Word: petrini
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...movement was founded in 1986 by Italian journalist Carlo Petrini, spurred into action when a McDonald's invaded Rome's historic Piazza di Spagna. "I was alarmed by the culturally homogenizing nature of fast food," he says. In 1989 Petrini drafted a manifesto, ratified in Paris by 15 countries, deriding "fast life, which disrupts our habits, pervades the privacy of our homes and forces us to eat fast food." According to the manifesto, fast life denies mankind its inalienable right to "sensual pleasure and slow, long-lasting enjoyment." To reclaim both, Slow Food, whose symbol is a snail, promotes taste...
Through Channels. In Turin, Italy, Giovanni Petrini, 79, received official army notification that his promotion to sergeant, first proposed in 1898, had finally come through...
Five others -Petrini, Kossofsky, Grancharoff, Abadjieff, Dimitroff-who are all at large-sentenced in absence. Public execution...