Remember the Real Carlo Petrini (1949-2026), Slow Food Founder, in this Rousing 2012 Speech at the Heirloom Food Festival in Santa Rosa | It's All About Pleasure and Change

His gifts to us were many and his presence in Sonoma County giving the keynote address was just one of them. Slow Food, Slow Wine, Slow Wine USA, Terra Madre of the Americas–Let us count the ways.

Carlo Petrini, the founder of Slow Food, died, from prostate cancer, and bios of his life and times are everywhere.

I was looking for an old photo taken in 2012 that exists–somewhere–in my photo archives of me and Carlo, when he came to speak at the Sonoma County Fairgrounds. I was so thrilled to get a selfie (something I rarely do but for a photo with…