Caucasian Buffalo and Mountain Honey are new Slow Food Presidia in Azerbaijan 28 July 2021 The EU-funded ‘Community-based Value Chain Enhancement in the Greater Caucasus Mountains Area’ (COVCHEG) project has reached another fundamental milestone today: the creation of two new Slow Food Presidia in Azerbaijan. Fitting perfectly into the Biodiversity Strategy for 2030, a core part of...
Culinary Argan Oil: A Little-Known Delicacy from a Threatened Ecosystem 6 May 2021 May 10 is the International day of the Argania “The smell of toasted argan kernels takes me back to my childhood, when at the end of the week I would sit by my grandmother and we would prepare the...
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,...
New Slow Food Presidium for Extra-Virgin Olive Oil from the Indigenous Landscapes of the Aegean 27 May 2019 Anyone who has visited Turkey in recent years will be aware of the many profound transformations it has being undergoing, affecting every aspect of the country: society, politics, the economy and unfortunately also the environment. Building speculation has reached...
High-altitude Honey: Puebla Sierra Norte Native Bees Honey 18 April 2019 In the Sierra Norte mountain range in Mexico lives a special breed of bee. Known locally as pisilnekmej, the Scaptotrigona Mexicana is a member of the family native to the American continent whose distinctive trait is that they have...
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...
Slow Food in Sierra Leone: Journey Among the Kola Nut Growers 28 January 2019 Travelling southeast from Freetown, Sierra Leone’s capital, towards the eastern provinces, eventually brings you to the unpaved roads that lead to the Gola Rainforest National Park, one of the few remaining tracts of rainforest left in the country. Rivers...
Honey: The Precious Nectar that Links Tradition with the Future of the New Generation 17 December 2018 For the Ogiek people, honey was the main source of food during droughts, famines, and other calamities because it could be preserved for a long time. Apart from being a staple food, honey played a key role in various...
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.
Slow Food Tanzania at Karibu-KiliFair 31 May 2018 For the very first time Slow Food Tanzania will participate in this international Event Slow Food Tanzania will participate for the first time in Karibu-KiliFair, the largest and most important tourism trade fair in East Africa, which will take...
