Carlo Petrini, 76, died last night in his home in Bra, in the Cuneo area. This was announced by Slow Food, the movement he founded in 1986 to promote the right to pleasure and to good, clean and fair food for everyone. "His great vision and love for the common good," Slow Food recalls, "for relationships between human beings, for nature and biodiversity" also gave rise to Terra Madre, an international network founded in 2004, and the University of Gastronomic Sciences of Pollenzo (2004). He was also a co-founder of the Laudato Sì Communities (2017), inspired by Pope Francis' encyclical.
"He who sows utopia, reaps reality," Carlo Petrini loved to say—recalls Slow Food—which summed up his life, convinced that dreams and visions, when beautiful, right, engaging, and lived with conviction and passion, can be realized . "He knew how to dream and have fun, build and inspire, toward concrete social redemption, working with people, especially young people, hoping for brotherhood, emotional intelligence, and austere anarchy. His energy, his extraordinary empathy, his will to do, and his example of life will be the force that will guide us all," Slow Food concludes.
(Unioneonline)
