Petrini Quotes

#1. 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

#2. Same thing every year, getting up at the crack of dawn, drinking, fighting, throwing up, pissing on walls and then you leave the house and things get bad.

Greg Fitzsimmons

#3. I suppose I could collect my books and get on back to school, or steal my Daddy's cue and make a living out of playing pool.

Rod Stewart

#4. 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

#5. 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

#6. Any gastronome who is not an environmentalist is stupid, and any environmentalist who is not a gastronome is sad.

Carlo Petrini

#7. If you paint the world in black and white you lose its colour.

Neel Burton

#8. Man is fond of counting his troubles, but he does not count his joys. If he counted them up as he ought to, he would see that every lot has enough happiness provided for it.

Fyodor Dostoyevsky

#9. concept: the worst is over. everything's going to be okay now.

L.J. Buchanan

#10. 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

#11. I believe that he who sows utopia will reap reality.

Carlo Petrini

#12. Nothing can be attained without suffering but at the same time one must begin by sacrificing suffering.

G.I. Gurdjieff

#13. Slow Food unites the pleasure of food with responsibility, sustainability and harmony with nature.

Carlo Petrini

#14. Producing good stuff can be quite tough, and it involves a lot of frustration, but I always like things to be jolly and happy, and I forget that's actually not the point at the end of the day.

Ewan McGregor

#15. You is what you am, a cow don't make ham.

Frank Zappa

#16. Taste, like identity, has value only when there are differences,

Carlo Petrini

#17. Dont brag about being perfect..imperfections are what makes you attractive..

Sandra Chami Kassis