Cooks’ Alliance Recipe from Switzerland: chef Sandra Defanti 19 August 2019 Born with the gift of creativity, Sandra Defanti became a chef and hotelier thanks to two loves—of her husband Cesare and of cooking itself. A tireless source of new ideas, there’s no risk of being bored at her table,...
Chef’s Alliance Recipe – Joel Basumatari 21 September 2018 Here I’m presenting a recipe that uses fermented soya beans, known as axone. As a chef, I’m interested in many stories about food. There is a Sumi legend about how axone was discovered.
Slow Food Coffee Festival is back: Celebrating Uganda’s Special Coffee Varieties 16 February 2018 The event will launch a network of producers of native Ugandan coffee varieties at risk of extinction Celebrating Uganda’s Special Coffee Varieties, the third edition of the Slow Food Coffee Festival, will take place at Mayor’s Gardens Mable in Mbale, Eastern Uganda,...
Slow Cheese network established to support raw milk cheese producers around the world 8 December 2017 During the State of Raw Milk meeting held at Cheese 2017, which brought together more than 350 people from different countries, Slow Food proposed the creation of a network to bring together cheese producers, animal breeders, cheesemongers, technical experts,...
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...
The Ark of Taste: the foods and skills of the Brazilian food heritage all in one book 26 October 2017 The first publication about the Ark of Taste in Brazil will be presented by Carlo Petrini today in the course of a meeting entitled ‘O valor da biodiversidade para uma nova economia sustentável,’ (The importance of biodiversity for a...
Slow Food at Semana MESA São Paulo 24 October 2017 The Semana MESA São Paulo is coming, from October 26-29 2017. On October 26, on the first day of the Congresso MESA Tendências 2017, we’ll welcome Carlo Petrini, the founder and president of the Slow Food movement. The theme...
Creating Virtuous Networks for a Solidarity That Is Never Futile 1 September 2017 How many times have we heard it said, even from unexpected sources, that the work of NGOs and foundations in Africa or South America may well be motivated by good intentions, but is entirely irrelevant given the mountain of...
The first Slow Food Earth Market in Australia 16 August 2017 On the east coast of Australia, in the rich alluvial farmland of the Hunter Valley, the farmers of Maitland launched the country’s first Earth Market, on August 3rd 2017. Slow Food Earth Market Maitland celebrate the farming traditions and rich...
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...