TALK: Slow Food

Slow Food’s founder, Carlo Petrini, came to prominence two decades ago when he stopped McDonald's opening by Rome's Spanish Steps. His non-lethal weapon of choice at the time? Plates of penne. He started Slow Food in 1989 to counteract fast food and fast life, the disappearance of local food traditions, 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 – people, communities, animals, plants and the environment. Today the organisation, based in Bra, Italy, has 100,000 members in 150 countries. There is a Slow Food organisation in Perth: www.slowfoodperth.org.au