Carlo Petrini, founder of the Slow Food movement, will be delivering a free public lecture about eco-gastronomy and the relationship between food and culture.

Date: 14th October, 2009
Time: 5:15-6.15pm
Venue: University of WA, Molecular and Chemical Science (MCS) Lecture Theatre
RSVP: Required by Monday, 12th October to Chris Hale chris.hale@uwa.edu.au or by phoning 08 6488 1141.

Hosted by: Professor William Erskine, Director, Centre for Legumes in Mediterranean Agriculture.

Note: Carlo is very interested in meeting with and talking to Agriculture students.

From the brochure (see below for link to download):

CARLO Petrini, Slow Food’s founder and international president, will deliver a free public lecture at the University of Western Australia during a one-day visit to Perth.

Carlo Petrini

Hear the man described by The Guardian as ‘one of the 50 people who could save the planet’ – and a Time European hero – talk about ‘good, clean and fair’ food and the challenges that face the world of food.

Carlo Petrini

Carlo Petrini studied sociology at Trento University and then became involved in local politics and association work. He began to write about food and wine in 1977, contributing to major Italian newspapers and periodicals. He also began to devise and organise cultural events. In the early 1980s Petrini laid the foundations for Arcigola, an association whose aim was to promote the culture of conviviality and good food and wine. It eventually developed into the Slow Food movement. On December 9 1989, at the Opéra Comique in Paris, the Slow Food Manifesto was signed by more than twenty delegations from around the world, and Petrini was elected president.

Petrini’s latest book, entitled Buono, pulito e giusto. Principi di nuova gastronomia was published in Italy in 2005. It has been translated into English under the title Slow Food Nation and was published by Rizzoli USA in 2007.

In it Petrini traces the theoretical development of ‘ecogastronomy’, the principle at the heart of Slow Food. The book has also been translated into French, Spanish, German and Polish.

About Slow Food: “Slow Food is a non-profit, eco-gastronomic member-supported organisation that was founded in 1989 to counteract fast food and fast life, the disappearance of local food traditions and people’s dwindling interest in the food they eat, where it comes from, how it tastes and how our food choices affect the rest of the world…”

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