Bitto’s Victory 12 November 2014 They say that the people of the mountains are stubborn, and the story of the Bitto rebels certainly bears this out. The final chapter in the story came yesterday with the signing of an agreement between the Consorzio per...
Fighting against licuri palms deforestation! 3 November 2014 Slow Food and Slow Food Brasil publicly states that it is against deforestation and encourages the protection of the licuri palm in the Piemonte da Diamantina region, Capim Grosso municipality, state of Bahia. Licuri palms are a source...
2000 Products on Board! 16 October 2014 The 2000th passenger on the Ark of Taste has arrived from South Korea: Meoksi Persimmon Vinegar marks an important milestone for the project. The Ark of Taste began 18 years ago and has since become an international catalogue of...
Terra Madre Through the Lens of Oliviero Toscani 7 October 2014 Behind every food lies a place, a face, a story. And there are many ways of telling that story. With words, but also with images, as the great Italian photographer Oliviero Toscani (https://www.olivierotoscani.com/) has chosen to do. During 2014,...
Ch’hiwates du Terroir: an Alliance of Taste! 6 October 2014 In 2013, two friends decided to open a restaurant in Rabat, Morocco. Dounia left his job as a manager in an accountancy firm to follow his dream: “I always like inviting friends for dinner and making the most of...
Brilliant Belgium! 6 October 2014 There are many formidable stories from Belgium, and one in particular is worth talking about: the story of the silent battle that hundreds of producers are fighting everyday to defend and share the tastes and aromas they have inherited...
Il Macagn e i mieli di alta montagna protagonisti a Geo Magazine 3 October 2014 Appuntamento oggi con i formaggi a latte crudo, dove si racconterà la storia del Macagn, prelibatezza tutta piemontese. Al centro della puntata anche il tema dell’abbandono degli alpeggi, che sta mettendo a dura prova la sopravvivenza delle nostre montagne....
The network of Earth Markets awards an annual prize to Gigi Frassanito 19 September 2014 Slow Food’s Earth Markets are meeting places where local producers sell quality produce directly to the consumer. They are an important step in preserving and promoting food culture in the local community while protecting biodiversity. Thanks to the project,...
Around The World in a Cuppa’ Joe 11 September 2014 After water, coffee is the most consumed non-alcoholic drink in the world, and a daily ritual for millions of people. According to a legend, coffee consumption began in Ethiopia, a thousand years ago when the red coffee fruits were...
A Passion for Chocolate 4 September 2014 The indigenous Olmec of what is now the Mexican state of Tabasco may well have been the first people to consume cacao, according to some studies. Since 2007, a Slow Food Presidium has been protecting the varieties (Trinitario, Forastero...
