Two major figures in the slow food movement, together with the director of the American Academy in Rome, Christopher Celenza (1994 Fellow), discuss the future of food sustainability. Carlo Petrini, a journalist and food activist, is the author of Slow Food Revolution and Slow Food. Le ragione del gusto. He has been a major proponent of local foodways and the preservation of local gastronomic traditions in Italy. Alice Waters, founder of the sustainable restaurant Chez Panisse in Berkeley and author of The Art of Simple Food, is the United States’ most influential food advocate. She has influenced national policy on school lunches, food education, and organic food. Waters has also consulted on and helped found the American Academy in Rome’s teaching kitchen, the Rome Sustainable Food Project.

The event will be held in English and Italian.