Carlo Petrini quotes
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“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.”
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“Taste, like identity, has value only when there are differences,”
-- Carlo PetriniSource : "McItaly Burger: Luca Zaia, Italy’s Agriculture Minister, Defends Boosterism For McDonald’s Burger", www.huffingtonpost.com. April 11, 2010.
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“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.”
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“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.”
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“Slow Food unites the pleasure of food with responsibility, sustainability and harmony with nature.”
-- Carlo Petrini#Responsibility Quotes #Slow Food Quotes #Sustainability Quotes
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“The quest for slowness, which begins as a simple rebellion against the impoverishment of taste in our lives, makes it possible to rediscover taste.”
-- Carlo PetriniSource : Carlo Petrini (2007). “Slow Food Nation: Why Our Food Should be Good, Clean, and Fair”, Rizzoli International Publications
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“I believe that he who sows utopia will reap reality.”
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“If food was no longer obliged to make intercontinental journeys, but stayed part of a system in which it can be consumed over short distances, we would save a lot of energy and carbon dioxide emissions. And just think of what we would save in ecological terms without long-distance transportation, refrigeration, and packaging--which ends up on the garbage dump anyway--and storage, which steals time, space, and vast portions of nature and beauty.”
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“Any gastronome who is not an environmentalist is stupid, and any environmentalist who is not a gastronome is sad.”
-- Carlo Petrini
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“Well, fancy giving money to the Government! Might as well have put it down the drain.”
Source : 1931 'Too Much!'.
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“The best way to get a bad law repealed is to enforce it strictly.”
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Source : A. H. Almaas (2000). “Diamond Heart: Book One: Elements of the Real in Man”, p.7, Shambhala Publications
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Source : Abbi Glines (2013). “The Vincent Boys Extended and Uncut Collection: The Vincent Boys -- Extended and Uncut; The Vincent Brothers -- Extended and Uncut”, p.43, Simon and Schuster
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“It's not enough to attend church and pray every Sunday; you have to act.”
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Source : "Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers" by Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, p. 147, 1895.
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“A church is a hospital for sinners, not a museum for saints.”
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