If Petrini’s answers to Fairbanks’s questions felt like speeches, it may have had something to do with the audience hearing his appeals in Italian first. Though Petrini had a translator on hand, Patrick Martins of Heritage Foods USA did the official translation for the event (there was considerable surprise that Martins spoke Italian so well). “Not speaking English is also an example of biodiversity,” he said getting a laugh from the audience. Credit: Facebook/Heritage Radio NetworkĪn interesting twist in the event moderated by Heritage Radio executive director Erin Fairbanks was that Carlo Petrini spoke in Italian throughout. Petrini chats with Joan Gussow and Adam Gopnik during the event at Roberta’s. Since 2002, Waters has served as vice president of Slow Food International, solidifying the ideological connection between her work and Petrini’s. Although in different countries and at different times, they were on the same page. For Alice Waters, it was taste and a trip to France that led her to a lifetime of championing fresh, local foods. Petrini planted the seeds of what would become the international Slow Food movement when he stopped a McDonald’s from opening on the Spanish Steps in Rome. Most of the audience were in that twenties-to-thirties age group who had never really lived in a world without the influence of Alice Waters or Slow Food (Chez Panisse was founded in 1971 and Slow Food in 1989). They’d come from warmer coasts - Italy and California - in honor of Slow Food’s 25th anniversary with Heritage Radio Network and Heritage Foods USA.
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This was the food movement’s version of a Fleetwood Mac concert - a question and answer session with Slow Food’s founder Carlo Petrini and it’s international vice president, Alice Waters of Berkeley’s Chez Panisse. Whatever total capacity was for the outdoor space, it had been reached.
The backyard of Bushwick’s favorite pizza spot, Roberta’s, was a sea of pizza boxes and checkered picnic blankets on Friday, October 3. Waters and Petrini share panetonne at Park Slope’s L’albero dei gelati during a recent visit to Brooklyn.
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