Slow Food Chefs’ Alliance Comes to the USA 17 July 2017 The United States is joining Slow Food’s extensive worldwide network of chefs committed to cooking and promoting products from the Presidia, Ark of Taste and other communities of local producers. The Slow Food Chefs’ Alliance project already has hundreds...
Terra Madre Burkina Faso: Voices From the First Terra Madre in West Africa 25 June 2017 The name Burkina Faso translates as “land of honest people,” and this beautiful, fascinating country on the western Africa is home to over 60 ethnic groups—and as many languages—who have inherited an enormous cultural and environmental wealth which translates...
International Day For Biological Diversity: Endangered Foods 22 May 2017 During the Irish potato famine of the 1840s, socio-political challenges and a disease known as potato blight obliterated the dietary staple for one-third of the population, resulting in the deaths of about 1 million people. Over a century later,...
Ugandan Fish Heritage for the first time at Slow Fish 18 May 2017 Uganda, also known as the pearl of Africa, is known for hosting Lake Victoria, the second largest freshwater lake in the world and the source of the Nile—the longest river in the world—along with other freshwater bodies which for...
Slow Food Participates at the UN Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues in New York 27 April 2017 At the same time, the organization also marks an important milestone reaching 700 indigenous products on the Ark of Taste’s catalog This year, from April 24 to May 5, Slow Food participates at the 16th session of the UN...
Quality Cane Sugar Comes From Peru to Italy 26 April 2017 Unrefined cane sugar from Tailin in Peru is now available for sale in Italy thanks to the Alce Nero brand, which not only supports the Slow Food Presidium but is now also importing the sugar and distributing it to...
Slow Food Presidium Product Receives Well-Deserved Recognition 20 April 2017 German-French ARTE TV program “at the table” travels to Macedonia to discover a rich heritage of local cuisine, including the Bukovo Pepper. The episode features Slow Food Presidium producer Ilinka Glavevska and her family, who explain its preparation and...
Slow Food Uganda launches its second Earth Market in Manafwa 12 April 2017 The Manafwa farmers’ market is joining Slow Food international project of Earth Markets. The Manafwa market, established in 2017 thanks to the Slow Food Uganda network, is the second Ugandian Slow Food Earth Market, after the Mukono-Wakiso Earth Market....
Ugandan coffee: a host of varieties for you to discover at a dedicated festival 13 February 2017 From the Nyasaland Arabica of Mount Elgon, intercropped with ginger and lemongrass, to the Nganda Robusta promoted by the youngsters of Bukunja, to the Kisansa of Luwero, in the Zirobwe district, which grows in the shade of forest trees:...
Centuries-Old and Steeped in Tradition, Umqombothi Joins the Ark 12 February 2017 The 4,000th passenger on the Ark of Taste, Slow Food’s international catalog of food products, has arrived from the Xhosa people of South Africa. A handcrafted beer called Umqombothi, marks an important milestone for Slow Food’s project. Hundreds of years before handcrafted artisan beers became...
