Slow Food Story

This is a wonderfully informative and entertaining portrait of a true revolutionary who channelled his political verve into the most influential gastronomic enterprise in the world.  "Carlin" Petrini is the godfather of good, clean and fair food.  From his founding of Arcigola in 1986 to the establishment of the The University of Gastronomic Sciences in Pollenza, a suburb of Bra in Northern Italy we follow Petrini's life and work through testimonials from food gods the world over including our own Alice Waters.  Petrini was born in Bra 64 years ago, and as a young radical contributed culinary articles to various Communist publications.  His passion for food and wine was instrumental in the founding of an Italian wine bank, seed banks, fish fairs, cheese fairs and the world's largest food and wine fair, The Salon del Gusto in Turin.  He continues to promote bio-diversity the world over spending much the and energy promoting his ideas in third world countries.  Let us hope that the raven Film Complex has the foresight to book this film when it becomes available in the US

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