Slow Food Gardens in Africa: sustainable water management techniques with terracotta jars 13 December 2022 Draughts and water scarcity are becoming a very present issue in our daily life. Let’s learn from Boujemaa Gueghlan and Amanuel Menna how farmers in Africa have, over the decades, been using terracotta jars as a solution to guarantee...
THIRTEEN NEW SLOW FOOD PRESIDIA AT TERRA MADRE 21 September 2022 THERE ARE MORE THAN 100 SLOW FOOD PRESIDIA PRESENT AT PARCO DORA FROM SEPTEMBER 22-26. AND THE 14TH EDITION OF TERRA MADRE SALONE DEL GUSTO, AT PARCO DORA, TURIN, FROM SEPTEMBER 22 TO 26, WILL FEATURE THE UNVEILING OF...
Orkney Boreray Community becomes Scotland’s 2nd Slow Food Presidium August 2021 25 August 2021 Here is proof, if ever it was needed, that Orkney is indeed a very special place! Orkney Boreray is named the second Slow Food Presidium in the whole of Scotland – the other being the North Ronaldsay sheep, also...
A New Itinerary for Slow Food Travel: Dents du Midi in Switzerland 22 July 2021 After Carinthia in Austria, the Upper Tanaro Valley and the Biella mountains in northern Italy, Grand Entremont and Fully in Switzerland, the latest region to join Slow Food Travel is Dents du Midi, completing the Val d’Illiez’s participation in...
From the Italian Slow Food Cooks’ Alliance, Lila Bentivegna’s Sardine Soup 15 June 2021 On the occasion of Slow Fish 2021, we bring you a fish recipe from Slow Food Chefs’ Alliance Lila Bentivegna, who uses this dish to tell us about her connection to the sea. Lila was born right by the...
The recipe of the Slow Food Cook’s Alliance in Albania 16 April 2021 Altin Prenga was born in Fishtë, a small village in Lezhë county, Albania. He worked in several restaurants in Trentino, Lombardy and Piedmont and after 11 years abroad he returned to his country, where together with his brother Anton, they transformed the family home in Fishtë into the agritourism Mrizi i Zanave, “At...
Settlers’ Icelandic Hen Landnámshæna Named a Slow Food Presidium 18 December 2020 The new status, obtained thanks to the shared efforts of farmers and institutions, recognizes the fundamental importance of this heritage poultry breed to protecting and promoting the island’s biodiversity The Settlers’ Icelandic hen first arrived on the shores of...
The Resilience Fund project, aimed at supporting the fishermen of the Mediterranean Prud’homies Slow Food Presidium, was presented today 14 December 2020 This initiative, endorsed by FPT Industrial, was conceived by Slow Food with the aim of promoting collective projects with a significant sustainable and social impact, by helping them develop their potential to transform the food system. A project to...
Slow Food in Azerbaijan Launches its National Slow Food Cooks Alliance and Opens Up its Virtual Showcase in the Marketplace of the Terra Madre Salone Del Gusto 2020 Platform 14 December 2020 The EU-funded COVCHEG project opens up its virtual doors at the Terra Madre marketplace dedicated to Slow Food in Azerbaijan and launches the Slow Food Cooks Alliance in Azerbaijan. 7 chefs have come together to join the international network...
Comeback of the Begawi Chicken 11 November 2019 Last month, at the invitation of Dr. Adel Abdel Salam, coordinator of Slow Food Egypt Begawi Chicken Presidia, I traveled to Tameya, Fayoum, a town south of Cairo, to meet delegates from Themar Project , an NGO in Sohag,...
