
{"id":335,"date":"2007-05-24T10:06:16","date_gmt":"2007-05-24T18:06:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.carrborocitizen.com\/main\/2007\/05\/24\/the-good-life-in-a-pasture\/"},"modified":"2007-05-27T11:13:30","modified_gmt":"2007-05-27T19:13:30","slug":"the-good-life-in-a-pasture","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/2007\/05\/24\/the-good-life-in-a-pasture\/","title":{"rendered":"The good life in a pasture"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.carrborocitizen.com\/foodandfarm\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/05\/carlopetrini.mp3\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"carlopetrini.mp3\">Audio: Carlo Petrini remarks at the Chapel Hill Creamery, May 23, 2007<br \/>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.carrborocitizen.com\/main\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/05\/petrinifarm.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.carrborocitizen.com\/main\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/05\/petrinifarm.jpg\" height=\"226\" width=\"298\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><em>While Slow Food USA\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s executive director Erika Lesser translates, the international movement\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s founder, Carlo Petrini, encourages the crowd to eat well, eat less and respect the earth.  Photo by Kirk Ross<br \/>\n<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em><strong>By Matthew Fiorentino<\/strong><br \/>\nCorrespondent<\/em><\/p>\n<p>In the pasture of the Chapel Hill Creamery, filled with the smells of the finest local foods and the audible sighs of gastronomic pleasure, and surrounded by cows, Carlo Petrini, founder of the global Slow Food movement took in the moment.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>After visiting cities like New York, Boston and Chicago, the Italian from Torino looked at the hundreds of people gathered at the roughly 20 kiosks, run by local restaurateurs and chefs who practice the art of Slow Food, with a smile.<\/p>\n<p>\u00e2\u20ac\u0153This is a wonderful initiative with lots of beautiful people. I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122m very happy with the result,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d he said.<\/p>\n<p>He asked for a beer and then admired the backdrop for the event.<\/p>\n<p>\u00e2\u20ac\u0153The nature and the green that you have here doesn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t exist in Italy,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d he said. \u00e2\u20ac\u0153You have forests and meadows and fields, whereas in Italy we have lots of old buildings. I like it here very much.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d<\/p>\n<p>Petrini, who visited the area about nine years ago, returned to find Slow Food efforts in the Triangle running strong.<\/p>\n<p>\u00e2\u20ac\u0153The first time I came here I told people I wanted to create Slow Food, and people asked, \u00e2\u20ac\u02dcWhat\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s slow food?\u00e2\u20ac\u2122\u00e2\u20ac\u009d Petrini reminisced. \u00e2\u20ac\u0153I explained that it was a simple idea about slow life. And they said, \u00e2\u20ac\u02dcThis guy is crazy.\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 But things are changing.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d<\/p>\n<p>So they are. Slow Food now boasts 80,000 members in 850 local chapters around the world. To Petrini, this means that more and more people are throwing the debilitating shackles of consumerism aside (\u00e2\u20ac\u0153Enough with consuming,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d he cried, shaking his hands furiously.) and are transforming themselves into co-producers.<\/p>\n<p>\u00e2\u20ac\u0153The time has come for us to be co-producers,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d he said. \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Informing ourselves, educating our children, learning about good farming, spending a little more on food, not a lot, but a little bit.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d<\/p>\n<p>He quoted Hippocrates, the ancient Greek philosopher considered to be the father of medicine, and said the cost of cheap food is higher than most people think.<\/p>\n<p>\u00e2\u20ac\u0153Food is the first medicine,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d he said. \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Those who spend too little on food now spend more money on medicine later.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d<\/p>\n<p>He summed up Slow Food\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s three basic tenets as enjoying food that\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s produced in an environmentally friendly way and at a fair price.<\/p>\n<p>\u00e2\u20ac\u0153So eat good food, eat a little less, but eat well,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d he said.<\/p>\n<p>He pointed to local successes like the increase in fresh milk, microbreweries and locally produced cheese, as well as the large support for the Farmers\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 Market.<\/p>\n<p>\u00e2\u20ac\u0153It is much improved,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d he said, but there\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s still a long way to go.<\/p>\n<p>\u00e2\u20ac\u0153It\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s nice to see the changes, and I do feel more positive about humanity now. But I never said that we would win the battle. I think we have to fight as best we can. This is all we can do,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d he said.<\/p>\n<p>\u00e2\u20ac\u0153We need to get many more people with conviction involved with the movement,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d he continued. \u00e2\u20ac\u0153People need to take on more personal responsibility for the environment and for the food we eat.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Audio: Carlo Petrini remarks at the Chapel Hill Creamery, May 23, 2007 While Slow Food USA\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s executive director Erika Lesser translates, the international movement\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s founder, Carlo Petrini, encourages the crowd to eat well, eat less and respect the earth. Photo by Kirk Ross By Matthew Fiorentino Correspondent In the pasture of the Chapel Hill Creamery,&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-335","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-features"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/335","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=335"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/335\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=335"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=335"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=335"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}