IN ‘Food is sacred’, a lecture presented on the closing day of Salone del Gusto/Terra Madre 2008, the presenters included Carlo Petrini, founder of Slow Food, Satish Kumar, former Jain monk and director of education at the Schumacher College in the United Kingdom and founder and editor of Resurgence environmental magazine, and Enzo Bianchi, who studied economics before establishing a monastic priory, The Community of Bose in Italy. All of these spoke passionately about the sacredness of food and how sad it is to see that food had become such a commodity. Carlo Petrini singled out the works of Ivan Ilich, who wrote The Tools of Conviviality.