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...
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,...
The North Ronaldsay Sheep is the first Slow Food Presidium in Scotland 27 March 2019 The North Ronaldsay Sheep, the oldest breed in Northern Europe and among the oldest and most rare in the world, has officially become the first Slow Food Presidium* in Scotland. According to a Danish investigation of old bones on...
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...
New Slow Food Presidium in Morocco: Rif Einkorn Wheat 4 September 2018 Slow Food launches a new Presidium to prevent the extinction of an ancient Moroccan wheat variety. The Presidium for Rif Einkorn Wheat becomes Morocco's 5th.
Biodiversity takes center stage at the Bocuse d’Or 13 June 2018 Chef Christian André Pettersen of Restaurant Mondo (Norway) won the Bocuse d’Or Europe 2018, which was held in Turin on June 11-12. The 20 European chefs involved in the competition were invited to highlight some of Piedmont’s most traditional...
Slow Food Tanzania at Karibu-KiliFair 31 May 2018 For the very first time Slow Food Tanzania will participate in this international Event Slow Food Tanzania will participate for the first time in Karibu-KiliFair, the largest and most important tourism trade fair in East Africa, which will take...
Another Sámi Product Becomes a Slow Food Presidium 15 February 2018 Today Slow Food officially launched a Presidium* for Sámi Cured Reindeer Meat, or gurpi. Sámi are indigenous nomadic reindeer herders. Their traditional way of life revolves around migrating with their semi-wild reindeer to different pastures depending on the time...
New Slow Food Presidium in Mexico to protect the Caribbean Spiny Lobster 20 November 2017 On November 15, Slow Food officially launched the Banco Chinchorro and Sian Ka’an Spiny lobster Presidium, as part of the Slow Fish Caribbean project*. The launch took place during the Participatory Monitoring Workshop and Slow Food Methodology Workshop, in...
Rove Brousse : soon to be France’s smallest PDO? 25 September 2017 It’s a matter of a few days, and the ten small-scale producers of the historic Rove Brousse, a Slow Food Presidium, will have a protected designation of origin (PDO): it may be the smallest yet in France. The work...
