Petrini speaks in a fluent, sometimes heady blend of manifesto and metaphor, but how does he intend, I ask, to realise these hopes? Sales of organic food, for example, are now starting to decline as purse strings tighten. Won't slow food producers suffer the same fate? In these new times, how does he answer the critics who say that slow food is little more than a self-congratulatory, elitist luxury for a wealthy few?