About Slow Food
SLOW Food Perth is a convivium of Slow Food, an international not-for-profit organisation founded in 1989 to counteract fast food and fast life, the disappearance of local food traditions, people’s dwindling interest in the food they eat, where it comes from, how it tastes and how our food choices affect the rest of the world – people, communities, animals, plants and the environment. Slow Food is based in Bra, Italy. It has almost 100,000 members in 132 countries. Western Australia has five of Australia’s 38 Slow Food convivia. Slow Food Perth has 200 members including chefs, cooks, families, producers, retailers, students, food merchants, winemakers and scientists. Volunteers co-ordinate all of our activities. Search our website for Slow Food Perth projects, events, news and membership and links to the world of Slow Food Australia and Slow Food.
Next events
Tea and terroir / Fri 03 Jul 2009 / taste workshop / join distinguished Melbourne tea merchant David Thompson for a tasting of india black, china white and burma oolong teas at Rochelle Adonis’ studio in Northbridge. Strictly limited to 20 participants. Fee $25 members, $30 friends. Please complete the booking form or email for information.
Taste the orient / Sat 18 Jul 2009 / taste excursion / not quite a genuine bazaar experience, but as close as is possible in suburban Perth / a visit to a specialist Belmont grocer with Farangeez Ahmadi to learn about Iranian and other middle eastern foods. Free event, but please complete the booking form and email advice of your attendance.
Down-the-road / Sat 08 Aug 2009 / long-table lunch / Slow Food Perth at the Mundaring truffle festival. Celebrating good food, wine, community and conviviality in Slow Food Perth’s good, clean and fair food marquee, with lunch to feature that great hunter-of-truffle – the pig – matched with Hills’ wines. This event is booked out, but we are maintaining a waitlist should any cancellations occur. Email us to be placed on the waitlist. Also join us on Sunday 09 August at Sculpture Park in Mundaring for kids’ food tastings, a special tasting of milks, wonderful coffee, pizza and an exploration of our ‘brainfood’ memory tunnel. No bookings required for Sunday activities.
Helix aspersa: latest newsletter
2008 Dec – Jan 2009 edition PDF / index / word picture: elizabeth david / a brimming bowl of ’small, slow food’: pauline tresise at terra madre and salone del gusto 2008 / bellissimo! vincenzo velletri cooks for australia’s terra madre delegation / riso della baraggia: the piedmont’s well-watered cereal / milk-on-tap: italian lessons for australian kids / golden oil: a taste of the olive’s magic / rottnest honey all the buzz / reluctant gardeners out-googled by goddess nigella / good news for western verge bandicoots
