Ugandan coffee communities protecting diversity and quality 7 June 2022 By John Wanyu The Slow Food coffee growers from Uganda are working hard to protect the diversity and quality of their products. To achieve their goals, they participate in a campaign regarding the Participatory Guarantee System (PGS) model that is currently...
How coffee shaped Colombia 6 May 2022 By Maria Jose Parra For many decades, Colombia has held a strong reputation for its single-origin coffee. It has suitable land to produce one of the most sought-after mild Arabica in the world. It Represents a crucial product for...
Discovering Luwero Kisansa Coffee 6 May 2022 Uganda is Africa’s second-largest coffee producer, after Ethiopia. While the Ethiopian highlands are the birthplace of Coffea arabica, the equatorial forests of Central and East Africa are home to Coffea canephora, better known as robusta. Robusta is most commonly used...
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...
