Welcome fellow Italophiles. If you have a passion for visiting and learning about ITALY, a county rich in history, culture, natural splendor and gastronomic delights, In Love With Italy™ is for you! It’s an additional service we hope our friends and visitors will enjoy. List of all In Love With Italy™ editions and credits appear at the bottom of this page.
 Did you know?
Slow Food, an organization dedicated to gastronomy and preserving heritage foods, was founded in Italy in 1986 and now includes more than 83,000 members in 50 countries! Slow Food members, who rally around the logo of a snail, savor epicurean delights, enjoy fine food and wine tasting events, culinary classes and regional gourmet specialties. They support local organic farmers, artisan producers and vintners. What could be more fun than sharing a passion for fine food and wine with other people who feel the same way? Let’s eat slowly, enjoying the aromas and flavors. Long live Slow Food! If you’d like to experience Slow Food in person, here’s how to join: Slow Food USA | Slow Food International | Slow Food Silicon Valley | Slow Food Italy. The famous Gambero Rosso “Italian Wines” book is a joint project with Slow Food Editore. Side note in praise of slowness: One of the first books devoted entirely to snails was written in 1607 by Francesco Angelita of L'Aquila in Italy.
Famous Italian
Carlo Petrini, founder of Slow Food International, was born on 22 June 1949 in Bra, Italy. He began to write about food and wine in 1977, contributing to the main Italian newspapers and periodicals. Petrini also devised and organized cultural events. In the early eighties Petrini laid the foundation stone of Arcigola, an association whose aim was to promote the culture of conviviality, good food and wine. With the passing of the years, Arcigola developed and broadened its scope to an international level, eventually becoming the International Slow Food Movement. “ TIME Magazine” selected Carlo Petrini as one of the world’s great innovators in 2004 and called him a “European hero”. “The Slow Revolutionary—originally a protest, his (Petrini’s) Slow Food movement has transformed the way we think about cuisine” writes Alain Ducasse, France's internationally acclaimed chef, whose restaurants comprise a prodigious nine Michelin stars. “Who can resist the laid-back elegance of Carlo Petrini? The huge smile, the twinkling eye, the enthusiastic gestures as he talks — he's a seducer, the Don Juan of the food world. He has changed the way we think about eating. In 1986, Petrini founded an association called Slow Food in Bra, a town in the wine country of the Piedmont region. The organization grew out of a protest against the opening of a McDonald's in Rome, and dedicated itself to the protection of traditional foods and agricultural biodiversity,” says Ducasse. Blessed with a knack of anticipating events in the fields of food, agriculture and eco-gastronomy (a neologism he coined himself), Petrini has played a decisive role in the development of Slow Food, inventing and promoting its projects, which have now acquired tremendous international visibility. In November 2002, Romano Prodi, the President of the European Union Commission, presented Petrini with yet another major and significant award—the Sicco Mansholt Prize, established by the Dutch foundation of the same name—for Slow Food’s activity in defense of a new model of agriculture.
New word, phrase or proverb
“To eat good food is to be close to God”, master chef Primo Pilaggi tells his brother Secondo at their restaurant called Paradise in the fantastic food movie the “Big Night”, a Stanley Tucci and Campbell Scott film released in 1996. In Italian: “Mangiare il buon cibo è come essere vicino a Dio.”
Place to visit
 Bra, the international headquarters for Slow Food, birthplace of its founder Carlo Petrini and one of 48 cities in Italy officially certified as Cittaslow “slow cities”. (Criteria: Support of Slow Food ideals, less than 50,000 citizens, dedication to hospitality, conviviality and urban quality). Host to the world’s largest cheese event, “Cheese” every September since 1999. All within the same 2-3 blocks are Slow Food’s offices as well as our recommended restaurant and hotel—for this stay you can languish like a snail, enjoy the food and vino, learn about and join Slow Food and relax even more at a nearby caffé.
 Restaurant
Osteria Boccondivino Via Mendicita Istruita 14, Bra CN, Cuneo, Italy 12042 tel. 0172.425674. Michelin one fork and bib gourmand which signifies good food for the price. This osteria is located in a home with balconies. Rustic and traditional food creations that make nearby Slow Food staff and visitors into loyal fans. Closed Sunday & Monday.
Hotel
L’Ombra della Collina Via Mendicita Istruita 47 Tel./FAX 0172.44884 email: lombradellacollin@libero.it Good accommodation at a moderate price. “Situated in the old centre of the locality at a prestigious address, this hotel is housed in a mid-18C building. A lovely internal courtyard, which the tastefully-furnished bedrooms face onto”, says Michelin 2005.
      
 Book
“The Pleasures of Slow Food: Celebrating Authentic Traditions, Flavors and Recipes” by Corby Kummer and Carlo Petrini. In a world increasingly dominated by fast food, “The Pleasures of Slow Food” celebrates heritage recipes, artisan traditions and the rapid evolution of a movement to make good food a part of everyday life. Slow Food is defined by how it's made: if it's allowed to ripen before  it's harvested, prepared by hand and enjoyed among friends, it's Slow Food. It's a philosophy, a way to farm, a way to cook...a way to live. It's also the name of an 83,000-strong international movement, numbering among its members some of the most distinguished names in the food world. “The Pleasures of Slow Food” showcases over 60 recipes from the world's most innovative chefs for dishes that feature local handmade ingredients and traditional cooking methods. Premier food writer Corby Kummer also profiles Slow Food's luminaries, such as Italian cheese maker Roberto Rubino and Canadian Karl Kaiser, who makes sweet ice-wine. Pairing fantastic recipes with engaging stories, “The Pleasures of Slow Food” brings the best of the food world to the kitchen table. Corby Kummer's work for the “Atlantic Monthly” and “Gourmet” has established him as "a dean among food writers.” A media commentator on food topics, he lives in Boston. Carlo Petrini, Slow Food Founder, lives in Italy. These are notes from the Publisher. May be purchased at barnesandnoble.com or amazon.com.
Special thanks to Carlo Petrini, Carmen Wallace Giuggia, Jean Rummelhoff, Jen Engst Upson, Jesse Cool, Alice Waters and Francesca Rosso for their valuable contributions to Slow Food. Grazie mille to Il Marchese Nicolo’ Incisa della Rocchetta of Sassicaia Winery for introducing our family to Slow Food in Bolgheri in 1996.
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In Love With Italy™ - List of All Editions:
- Vol VII, No. 1
- Vol VII, No. 2
- Vol VII, No. 3
- Vol VII, No. 4
- Vol VII, No. 5
- Vol VII, No. 6
- Vol VII, No. 7
- Vol VII, No. 8
- Vol VII, No. 9
- Vol VII, No. 10
- Vol VII, No. 11
- Vol VII, No. 12
- Vol VII, No. 13
- Vol VII, No. 14
- Vol VII, No. 15
- Vol VII, No. 16
- Vol VII, No. 17
- Vol VII, No. 18
- Vol VII, No. 19
- Vol VII, No. 20: In Heaven with SEVEN and Seven Angels
- Vol VII, No. 21: The Heavenly Angels - Sette Angeli - Seven Angels
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Vol. VII № 8 Source Notes and Credits
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Slow Food
- Carlo Petrini
- “Mangiare il buon cibo è come essere vicino a Dio.” “To eat good food is to be close to God.”
- Bra
- Osteria Boccondivino
- L’Ombra della Collina
- “The Pleasures of Slow Food: Celebrating Authentic Traditions, Flavors, and Recipes”
Slow Food
Carlo Petrini
“Mangiare il buon cibo è come essere vicino a Dio.” “To eat good food is to be close to God.”
Bra
Osteria Boccondivino, Bra
L’Ombra della Collina, Bra
“The Pleasures of Slow Food: Celebrating Authentic Traditions, Flavors, and Recipes” & other Slow Food books
- “The Pleasures of Slow Food: Celebrating Authentic Traditions, Flavors, and Recipes”: Amazon.com http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0811833798/002-7327406-4307269?v=glance
- “The Pleasures of Slow Food: Celebrating Authentic Traditions, Flavors, and Recipes”: by Corby Kummer and Carlo Petrini. Published by Chronicle Books, 2002. ISBN 0811833798. Hardcover 176 pages in English.
- “The Pleasures of Slow Food: Celebrating Authentic Traditions, Flavors, and Recipes”: Barnesandnoble.com:
- http://search.barnesandnoble.com/booksearch/isbnInquiry.asp?userid=jp2b9zwBeK&isbn=0811833798&itm=4
- Also highly recommended: “Slow Food – The Case for Taste” by Alice Waters, Carlo Petrini and William McCuaig. Published by Columbia University Press, 2003. ISBN 0231128444. English.
- “Slow Food: Collected Thoughts on Taste, Tradition and the Honest Pleasures of Food”, by Carlo Petrini and Ben Watson. Published by Chelsea Green Publishing, 2001. ISBN 1931498016. English.
- “Italian Wines 2005 - Italian Wine for Experts and Wine Lovers”, by Gambero Rosso and Slow Food Editore, 2005. Publisher Gambero Rosso, Incorporated. ISBN 1890142093. Gambero Rosso web site: http://www.gamberorosso.it/portaleEng/Homepage/homepage Can also be purchased at Amazon.com
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