Latvia Joins Slow Food Cooks’ Alliance with Eight Chefs 9 September 2019 At the Pārceltuve Festival, held on beginning of August in Līgatne, eight Latvian chefs joined the international Slow Food Cooks’ Alliance. Since the opening of the Straupe Earth Market in 2016, Latvia’s local Slow Food network has been widening...
Ark of Taste sails into world’s biggest festival of gardening 23 July 2019 The Ark of Taste came to the biggest annual flower festival on earth in early summer. Held at the historic Hampton Court outside London, the festival, now called a Garden Festival, drew around 140 000 people over five days....
Orkney Bere: the Ancient Grain that Keeps on Giving 19 April 2019 A friend of Slow Food, reporter David McKenzie, ventured to the Orkney Islands, off Scotland's craggy coastline, to learn about an ancient staple.
High-altitude Honey: Puebla Sierra Norte Native Bees Honey 18 April 2019 In the Sierra Norte mountain range in Mexico lives a special breed of bee. Known locally as pisilnekmej, the Scaptotrigona Mexicana is a member of the family native to the American continent whose distinctive trait is that they have...
Chefs’ Alliance Recipe – Caroline Rye, The Urban Fishwife 15 April 2019 Scottish chef Caroline Rye is the Urban Fishwife, sharing knowledge, understanding, and recipes that highlight the culinary treasures of Scotland's coast. Here she explains how to make potted mackerel pâté with dulse.
Waranà: A Tale of Indigenous Resistance 26 February 2019 The Sateré-Mawé people live near the sources of the Andirà and Marau rivers, in the Brazil’s Amazon rainforest. The bond that these people share with their land is so strong that the Brazilian constitution itself protects their right to...
Slow Food’s Ark of Taste Welcomes 5,000th Passenger 8 February 2019 Honey made by the Gourmantché people in the Tapoa region of Burkina Faso chosen to mark this important milestone Honey made by the Gourmantché people in the eastern Tapoa region of Burkina Faso is the product Slow Food has chosen as the...
Honey: The Precious Nectar that Links Tradition with the Future of the New Generation 17 December 2018 For the Ogiek people, honey was the main source of food during droughts, famines, and other calamities because it could be preserved for a long time. Apart from being a staple food, honey played a key role in various...
Chef’s Alliance Recipe – Xavier Hamon 20 October 2018 When I got to know the Slow Food movement, I realized the impact of our food choices on the ecosystem, as well as the growing destruction of artisanal savoir-faire that is part of the food history of every country....
Maitland Earth Market has been granted with the Slow Food’s Gigi Frassanito award 23 September 2018 Maitland Earth Market has been granted with the Slow Food's Gigi Frassanito award, recognition during the Earth Market Summit at the international event Terra Madre Salone del Gusto 2018 held in Turin, Italy.
