Comeback of the Begawi Chicken 11 November 2019 Last month, at the invitation of Dr. Adel Abdel Salam, coordinator of Slow Food Egypt Begawi Chicken Presidia, I traveled to Tameya, Fayoum, a town south of Cairo, to meet delegates from Themar Project , an NGO in Sohag,...
Chef’s Alliance Recipe – Gena Iodice 23 March 2019 The Slow Food Chef’s Alliance recipe for March comes to us from the south of Italy. Gena Iodice, a member of the Chefs' Alliance in Campania and Basilicata, presents her recipe for Fusilloni with azure blue sweet peas, sausage,...
Waranà: A Tale of Indigenous Resistance 26 February 2019 The Sateré-Mawé people live near the sources of the Andirà and Marau rivers, in the Brazil’s Amazon rainforest. The bond that these people share with their land is so strong that the Brazilian constitution itself protects their right to...
New Slow Food Presidium in Morocco: Rif Einkorn Wheat 4 September 2018 Slow Food launches a new Presidium to prevent the extinction of an ancient Moroccan wheat variety. The Presidium for Rif Einkorn Wheat becomes Morocco's 5th.
Biodiversity takes center stage at the Bocuse d’Or 13 June 2018 Chef Christian André Pettersen of Restaurant Mondo (Norway) won the Bocuse d’Or Europe 2018, which was held in Turin on June 11-12. The 20 European chefs involved in the competition were invited to highlight some of Piedmont’s most traditional...
Gëzuar Ditën e Verës! Happy Summer Day! 14 March 2018 Today Albanians will be celebrating Dita e Verës as they say goodbye to the cold and welcome back the sun and flowers with a plenty of fun and food. Dita e Verës is a major day in Albania’s already...
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,...
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...
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...
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,...
