Ugandan Farmers in the EU Spotlight 6 May 2022 By Lorenz Stöckert In the fall of 2020, I started working with the Miale Tubana Mixed Farmers Collective from Mount Elgon in Eastern Uganda. The new member of Slow Food‘s Coffee Coalition and established Slow Food Presidium is cultivating and...
The arrival of the Slow Food Coffee Coalition in the Philippines 10 February 2022 You may not have heard of coffee in the Philippines before, but its history begins in 1740, when coffee was first planted by a Spanish monk in Lipa, a town south of Manila, making this city the coffee capital...
The Spain you least expect: Vanesa Bustos’ Valencian “threads of God” 13 January 2022 The chef and a cooking instructor Vanesa Bustos will bring the Spanish flavors to the table in this edition of: In Cucina con Slow Food. A format of Slow Food Italy where Chefs of the Alliance share techniques, experiences,...
A garden in Africa for Alberto 22 September 2021 Creating good, clean and fair vegetable gardens in African schools and communities: back in 2010, this was the main objective with which Slow Food launched the Gardens in Africa project in Turin during the Terra Madre Salone del Gusto,...
Slow Food Cooks’ Alliance Recipe: Frico with Potato and Cavasso and Val Cosa Onion 22 September 2021 Slow Food Cooks’ Alliance member Federico Mariutti draws on the hard work, wisdom and secrets of local food producers and farmers in order to bring to his restaurant the best his local area has to offer, like this frico...
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...
The Cooks’ Alliance Recipe: The gnocchi of Giovanni Melis 17 August 2021 I come from a Sardinian farming family. I love nature and all work associated with it, but cooking has always been my real passion. As a kid, when I used to see my grandparents bringing us meat and homemade...
Slow Food Travel: Another Amalfi 29 July 2021 Beyond its world famous beaches and seaside resorts, the Amalfi Coast is made up of communities and small-scale artisanal productions that protect this paradise from abuse; products which bear witness to the existence of a rich gastronomic heritage. The...
Caucasian Buffalo and Mountain Honey are new Slow Food Presidia in Azerbaijan 28 July 2021 The EU-funded ‘Community-based Value Chain Enhancement in the Greater Caucasus Mountains Area’ (COVCHEG) project has reached another fundamental milestone today: the creation of two new Slow Food Presidia in Azerbaijan. Fitting perfectly into the Biodiversity Strategy for 2030, a core part of...
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...
