This month, we highlight a local legend in the food movement: Carl Petrini, founder of Slow Food in 1986. He passed away in late May of this year, but his legacy lives on. In the US, Slow Food International inspired efforts such as Slow Food USA in 2000 and Slow Money in 2008, and other Slow Movement endeavors.
From Slow Food International: From the outset, Petrini played a decisive role in shaping Slow Food not simply as an organization, but as a movement. Over the years, he articulated its guiding philosophy—food that is “good, clean and fair”—as a unifying framework capable of bridging cultures and geographies. This principle became the foundation for a new way of understanding food: not merely as nourishment, but as a matter of environmental sustainability, cultural identity, and social justice.
Photo Credit: Slow Food
As AMIBA celebrates its twenty-fifth year, we have added a new section to our newsletter celebrating the entrepreneurs who created legacy businesses. These long-standing enterprises strengthened their own communities while feeding the entire local economy movement.
