Carlo Petrini, Italian journalist, gastronome and founder of Slow Food, died in Bra, Piedmont, on 21 May 2026, aged seventy-six. Over four decades, he transformed the act of eating into a political philosophy: buono, pulito e giusto — good, clean and fair. His legacy reaches through 160 countries, 5,300 food traditions and the first university of gastronomy in the world.