Carlo Petrini famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

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.
-- Carlo Petrini

#Government #Important #Church
Taste, like identity, has value only when there are differences,
-- Carlo Petrini

#Differences #Identity #Taste
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.
-- Carlo Petrini

#Stupid #World #Changing The World
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.
-- Carlo Petrini

#Mean #Fighting #Want
Slow Food unites the pleasure of food with responsibility, sustainability and harmony with nature.
-- Carlo Petrini

#Responsibility #Slow Food #Sustainability
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 Petrini

#Food #Simple #Quests
I believe that he who sows utopia will reap reality.
-- Carlo Petrini

#Believe #Reality #Utopia
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.
-- Carlo Petrini

#Distance #Journey #Thinking
Any gastronome who is not an environmentalist is stupid, and any environmentalist who is not a gastronome is sad.
-- Carlo Petrini

#Stupid #Environmentalist

Well, fancy giving money to the Government! Might as well have put it down the drain.
It was, however, resolved that 'we use our private influence at present to prevent our brethren from going into court and promising to obey the law; and as soon as possible we take steps to get some flavors from the government for those who already have more wives than one.'
The best way to get a bad law repealed is to enforce it strictly.
Your career, interests and relationships are important, but they are only important insofar as they lead you toward a deeper understanding of yourself. Otherwise, they are irrelevant.
Good isn't my thing but Sawyer's important to me. Please remember I've got my limits and you studying my mouth like you want a taste is pushing me dangerously close to the edge of those limits.
The bells they sound on Bredon, And still the steeples hum. "Come all to church, good people"- Oh, noisy bells, be dumb; I hear you, I will come.
I never joined, but I used to go to church now and then. I liked it, because they always passed out plates of money at the end.
It's not enough to attend church and pray every Sunday; you have to act.
Do you recall the laughter of the Philistines at the helpless Sampson? You can hear the echo of that laughter to-day, as the church, shorn of her strength by her own sin, is an object of ridicule to the world, who cry in derision, "Where is your boasted triumph and your Millennial glory?
A church is a hospital for sinners, not a museum for saints.

Carlo Petrini famous quotes

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