Slow Food International Launches Campaign for Europe’s Future Common Agricultural Policy
Please read the press release about the CAP campaign from the Slow Food International Press Office:
Press Release
We are happy to announce that the Slow Food Almanac is back. A recent addition to our movement’s publications, edition by edition it paints an increasingly effective picture of what we are doing in the world.
Read Carlo Petrini’s letter to Slow Food members and friends about the 2011 edition of the Slow Food Almanac:
“Never before has the Almanac been so rich in stories that describe who we are and what we do— arguably better than lots of theory. “Slow Food and Terra Madre are our home and our project”. In
Morcambe Bay Brown Shrimps, catalogued in the Ark of Taste, are receiving a lot of attention in the media, including The Telegraph and Tom Parker Bowles for The Mail Online.
“Morecambe Bay’s traditional brown shrimps are a delicacy worth saving” says Xanthe Clay in her article for The Telegraph and Tom Parker Bowles calls them “Greatest of all – brown shrimp, a diminutive king among fellow crustaceans” in The Mail Online . He describes the Ark of Taste as “a laudable and important project
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On Saturday 16th July, volunteers braved the rain to share ideas and experiences on introducing first foods to our babies.
At the Slow Food Baby Facilitator Training day, they discovered how our taste develops and how babies introduced to a variety of first foods have a varied and healthier diet later in life. They also shared food memories from their own childhoods; from happy family mealtimes to lumpy mashed potato at school!
Those trained are now
Hundreds of Children and their families explored food and their 5 senses at the festival on Clapham Common, London. “It’s such a great way to help kids get excited about their food.” Jamie Oliver
Set up alongside the demonstrations from Chefs such as Peter Gordon, Gennaro Contaldo and Antonio Carluccio, The Taste Adventure enabled children to discover the excitement of tasting, sniffing and feeling food. They explored food by travelling through five interactive zones, each with a focus on one of our five senses: taste, sight, touch, smell and
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Slow Food Baby!
On May 7, we held the first-ever Slow Food Baby training in Manchester. Members from Newcastle to Essex participated in the session, along with staff from the National Childbirth Trust (NCT), our partner in this initiative.
Slow Food Baby is SFUKs newest educational programme, designed to help young families make informed choices when introducing first foods
