Nataša Kramberger Photo: Dnevnik documentation
Hi Carlin! And good run!
“Nej se duj vbujt,” one would say in Jurovske Dol, which is pronounced in pure Piedmontese from the town of Bra: “Mortifichem se no!” I don’t even know how to write a book, nor does it make sense to bother, because you can neither translate nor bring some things out of their stubborn fusion into the local terrain – not only the land, but also thoughts -, I can only “zoom in” and write: “Let’s not kill each other and let’s not leave kill yourself, kill yourself, crush yourself, shut up!”
All this is said by a small dialectal northern Italian exclamation that Carlo Petrini liked to repeat – Carlin, a thinker, journalist and writer, gastronomist, ecologist and above all a tireless and fearless defender of the food system and food that is “good, clean and fair”. Carlin, as he was called by all who loved him, died last Thursday evening, May 21st, and even earlier he managed to write a message on the International Day of Biodiversity, which we celebrated on Friday, May 22nd.
When the news of his departure reached me, I sadly thought: the Slovenian nutrition guidelines 2025 could hardly wish for a more symbolic escort into the world. It would be hard to advise anyone who wrings their hands in frustration at what is probably the last document of the outgoing government and shouts about the injustice that the document does to meat, products of animal origin and perhaps even Slovenian agriculture, than to read and listen to Carlin Petrini.
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