Lifestyles - 23 Gennaio 2019 Slow Food and Slow Life: Are You Ready for Life in the Slow Lane? Petrini’s slow food movement led to all other kinds of “slow.” We now have slow travel, for example. That is, travel that seeks the opportunity to become part of local life and to connect to a place, its people and its culture. Slow education, whose guiding philosophy is a curriculum whose goals are to connect the student to “knowledge, tradition, moral purpose and all that is important in life”, and so on.