I'd like to say thank you to many friends, producers, academics. I was lucky to meet them, maybe to improve my thoughts and for sure to enlarge my love and vision for our unique world.
From Carlo Petrini, Slow Food Founder, I will always keep in my hear his quote 'he who sows utopia, reaps reality'. My time as a former Delegate of Slow Food University (UNISG) was simply a daily trying to achieve and improve non tangible targets. Thanks Carlin!
From Giorgio Pannelli, former Director of the Spoleto Experimental Institute of Agriculture I learnt to love and not only to accept monovarietal extra virgin olive oils, as much as to respect bitterness in the EVOO. Thanks Giorgio!
From Roberto Ferretti I received many intuitions. Maybe the most important being about opening my doorstep to give and to listen. I think this is the key of the international success of Agrituraso Marche, Integrated Relational Tourism. Thanks Roberto!
Last but not least, I would like to mention my closest university friends, with whom I used to celebrating our birthdays in best Italian restaurants, to discover not only great food or mise en place, much more important to have a chance and to share a word with their executive chefs. Four decades after, I still go back with those memories ...Thanks Guys!
— Ettore Bellucci