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Slow Food international president Carlo Petrini visits Western Australia
SLOW Food international president and founder Carlo Petrini visited Perth on 14 Oct 2009, launching a collaborative food garden project, presenting a lecture to a packed audience at the University of Western Australia, meeting parliamentarians and Slow Food Western Australian convivia members and attending a Slow Food Perth reception in the heart of the city. At Lathlain primary school in Perth’s eastern suburbs, the charismatic Italian – a former radio journalist – talked with children about understanding the earth and food plants and animals sustained by it. He was speaking at the launch of a project – Food with latitude – led jointly by Slow Food Perth and the children’s environment awareness organisation Millennium Kids. Its aim is to enable children, through food knowledge, to ‘orbit in two worlds’ – as Aboriginal leader Noel Pearson describes it – and come to know and respect the foods of their own culture and those of indigenous cultures. Petrini later met rural parliamentarian and Slow Food supporter Max Trenorden MLC, Member for the Agricultural Region, before addressing a standing room-only lecture at the University of Western Australia. The lecture venue was moved at the last minute to accommodate the 250 students, academics and Slow Food members who attended. The lecture was hosted by faculty of natural and agricultural sciences’ Professor Willy Erskine. Petrini later attended a Slow Food Perth reception at the Old Brewery where he received a traditional welcome to Perth from Noonagr elder Mingli McGlade, and where Agriculture and Food Minister Terry Redman launched the Slow Food Western Australia small food awards. See Matt O’Donohue’s complete photostream from the reception.
About us
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
Terra Madre Day / Sun 06 Dec 2009 / SLOW Food Perth regrets that this event has been cancelled because of a shortage of bookings [24 Nov 2009]. If you need more information please email.
Helix aspersa: latest newsletter
2009 Jul-Aug / PDF / index / word picture: joaquim da costa / kojonup on a plate: holistic farming yields retail partnership / air raid shelter inspires a gardening life / ‘vegetables for victory’ / leaping lizards in an onslow school garden / one harmonious snail / feasts, fasts, famines and fads – a peek at food history / shaking and making in japan / celebrate terra madre day / a slurp of real milk / slow food perth contacts / ‘feeding the snail’ – contributions welcome
