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The Slow Food Kids’ Taste Adventure at Jamie Oliver’s Big Feastival

On Saturday 1 and Sunday 2 September 2012, Slow Food UK attended the Big Feastival which was for the first time taking place at Alex James’ farm, near Kingham, in Oxfordshire.

The Big Feastival is a three day food and music festival initiated by the famous Chef Jamie Oliver, and aims at raising funds for Jamie Oliver’s Better Food Foundation. Jamie Oliver and Alex James were of course attending the festival, doing demos and giving the public the opportunity to taste their delicious foods.

This year, along with many pop-up restaurants and lots of good food, visitors enjoyed concerts by renowned British bands such as Texas, Razorlight and Paloma Faith, but also by less famous musicians like the Noisettes, Guillemots and many others, rising stars of the British music scene.

The Big Feastival is also a very family-oriented festival with many activities for children to have fun and make new experiences. Within the Big Top, the Slow Food Kids’ Taste Adventure attracted nearly 600 children over the weekend. Some teenagers and adults also came to participate in the adventure themselves, and enjoyed it as much as children, like a 19-year-old who said it was ‘great fun for all ages!’

Volunteers from the local groups of Wiltshire & Berkshire, Oxon and London joined the Slow Food UK team to run the activity on both Saturday and Sunday. They all enjoyed very much running the Slow Food Kids’ Taste Adventure and there help was greatly appreciated!

On Saturday, Catherine Gazzoli, Slow Food UK’s CEO, was invited to the Chef’s Table to introduce Slow Food UK, its ethos and programmes. She was accompanied by Emily Watkins, a Chef Alliance member, who explained why she had decided to join the Slow Food movement and showed the assembly some of her home-grown fruits and vegetables that people had the chance to smell and taste at the end of the presentation.

Several hundreds of visitors tasted with delight some Grana Padano, a delicious Italian cheese produced in Northern Italy. Grana Padano strongly supports Slow Food UK’s education programmes, among which the Slow Food Kids’ Taste Adventure. Thanks to them, Slow Food UK could offer over 300 very nice shopping bags to Taste Adventurers!

Thank you very much to all the Big Feastival’s visitors who stopped by to engage in our taste adventure and have a bite of Grana Padano! Slow Food UK is looking forward to attending the Big Feastival again in the future!