Conversation In Square With The Protagonists Of Popular Culture

Carlin Petrini

By Valter Giuliano

Torino, December 2008

He is an hero for the “ Time Magazine”, which gave him the “ 2004 European Time Heroes Award”, reserved to “...women and men inspiring, stimulating and making us proud...”.

Carlin Petrin – called “ slow revolutionary”- was described by the prestigious London masthead: “... His Slow Food Movement, originally born for protest, has transformed the way we think about cooking. His huge smile, his twinkling eyes, his enthusiastic gestures following his words, make of him a seducer, the Don Giovanni of World Food. He has changed our way to think about food...”.

But the master of food is also a master of Popular Culture, of its gestures and sounds.

Roberto De Simone

By Paolo Apolito

Torino, December 2008

“ Let me just mention the musicologist De Simone and his deep acumen, just to tell how philologist and ethnologist in himself always had eye, ear and a fine sensitivity towards theater, and it is evident in the scenic result to the public, for a not-elitist but genuinely popular operation, and for its contents of alternative character.

All that he pulls out from the hidden treasure, through his brilliant and original mediation, lives again with new life...Tradition, taste, style, doctrine, creativity, rich humanity were collect in his work of alive poetry...”.Words by the great Paolo Grassi, which give a brilliant picture of a genial man in Italian cultural scene, between music and theater.