New Slow Food Presidium Launched in the Netherlands to Protect Traditional Boeren Leyden Cheese 30 June 2017 Last Sunday, June 25, Slow Food Netherlands launched the Traditional Boeren Leyden Presidium during the Slow Food in the Park event, a festival held to celebrate the diversity of the Slow Food network and spread the message of good,...
Terra Madre Burkina Faso: Voices From the First Terra Madre in West Africa 25 June 2017 The name Burkina Faso translates as “land of honest people,” and this beautiful, fascinating country on the western Africa is home to over 60 ethnic groups—and as many languages—who have inherited an enormous cultural and environmental wealth which translates...
The Russian Slow Food Chefs’ Alliance lands in Siberia 9 June 2017 The Slow Food Chefs’ Alliance in Russia is gaining more and more members across the country. At the June 10–11 event organized by the Tipografia restaurant in Gorno-Altaisk, the first Siberian chef will join the Slow Food international project,...
International Day For Biological Diversity: Endangered Foods 22 May 2017 During the Irish potato famine of the 1840s, socio-political challenges and a disease known as potato blight obliterated the dietary staple for one-third of the population, resulting in the deaths of about 1 million people. Over a century later,...
Ugandan Fish Heritage for the first time at Slow Fish 18 May 2017 Uganda, also known as the pearl of Africa, is known for hosting Lake Victoria, the second largest freshwater lake in the world and the source of the Nile—the longest river in the world—along with other freshwater bodies which for...
Slow Food Participates at the UN Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues in New York 27 April 2017 At the same time, the organization also marks an important milestone reaching 700 indigenous products on the Ark of Taste’s catalog This year, from April 24 to May 5, Slow Food participates at the 16th session of the UN...
Quality Cane Sugar Comes From Peru to Italy 26 April 2017 Unrefined cane sugar from Tailin in Peru is now available for sale in Italy thanks to the Alce Nero brand, which not only supports the Slow Food Presidium but is now also importing the sugar and distributing it to...
“We Are Committing a Crime”: Intensive Date Palm Cultivation in Jericho 16 March 2017 Jericho, located along the Jordan Valley in the Palestinian Territories, has been known since ancient times as the City of Palms. For Christians, the place brings to mind the biblical episode in which Jesus enters the city after having...
Inspired by Local Producers, this Chef Knows What’s Cooking 15 February 2017 At Bistronomie Vidiveni in the city of Zwolle (Netherlands), Slow Food Chefs’ Alliance chef Josua Oechies is doing a lot of good. Not only is he committed to working with products from “local heroes”, he also gives them the...
Ugandan coffee: a host of varieties for you to discover at a dedicated festival 13 February 2017 From the Nyasaland Arabica of Mount Elgon, intercropped with ginger and lemongrass, to the Nganda Robusta promoted by the youngsters of Bukunja, to the Kisansa of Luwero, in the Zirobwe district, which grows in the shade of forest trees:...
