JOSH Viertel, former director of the Yale Sustainable Food Project, now president of Slow Food USA, along with Ruth Reichl, author and editor of Gourmet magazine, are interviewed on radio on all the aspects of Slow Food. Read more about Josh Viertel in a recent interview in Gourmet where he says that ‘good, clean and fair food is not a privilege – it is a right’.
A brief overview of Terra Madre 2008, world meeting of 8000 farmers in Turin.
This short Part 1 film shows highlights of some of the talks, the closing music, and inspired response from those present.
Terra Madre is an initiative of Slow Food International, which brings together every two years those food producers from all over the world who support sustainable agriculture, fishing and breeding with the goal of preserving taste and biodiversity.
Link to Part 2.
CORBY Kummer, a journalist with The Atlantic, pedaled with 150 Slow Food University of Gastronomic Sciences’ students on a 24-day bike ride along Italy’s river Po. ‘They filmed interviews with farmers and fishermen who remembered when the river provided much of the populace with its livelihood.’ writes Kummer. ‘They mapped the region and its specialties.’ At the completion, Slow Food international president Carlo Petrini, who had accompanied the students for parts of the journey, suggested ‘next time the Nile on camels’.
TRADITIONAL Maori and traditional Aboriginal knowledge will join hands in central Australia this week in a unique trans-Tasman exchange of ideas and experiences in bush foods and Indigenous art. ‘Hands across the ditch’ is a new project formed by Desert Knowledge. Bush products section leader Jenny Cleary explains that despite the difference between the contrasting climates there are similarities as both communities are using food for development and cohesion.
‘MEDIA that matters’ film festival is a fascinating source of short documentaries about food issues. View The luckiest nut in the world, the journey of a peanut.
FEDERICA Pozzi, student at Slow Food’s University of Gastronomic Sciences, writes in the university’s June 2009 newsletter about how, in part, her sense of self is realised through food. ‘…A series of others (close others) study food and culture with me. Without them I wouldn’t be able to sense my identity as I do. Difference, as threat and opportunity, is the mirror of the self and the spice that livens up a plate. A plate is a good image for the students of UNISG, a salad for example. Different nationalities mixed together, all chopped up and sprinkled with the same dressing: the information and the experience we are exposed to, every day, during our program.’ Read the article.
A SLURP of real milk – do different white milks taste different? Try your palate at Slow Food Perth’s good, clean and fair food marquee at this year’s Mundaring truffle festival on Sun 09 Aug. Can you taste the difference between supermarket home-brand milk and the real thing? Like a calf, suckle up and test your tasting skills against our panel’s – including a wine judge, an olive oil judge and a cheesemaker.
This is just one of Slow Food Perth’s activities at the 2009 festival. There will also be kids’ blindfold food tastings, our ‘brainfood’ memory tunnel, the Country Women’s Association’s classic sponge cakes, wood-fired pizza, wonderful coffee, and fascinating Slow Food information. Do you know what an ‘ort’ is?
Or come and participate in a debate: ‘Is it smarter for us to eat an organic orange from Spain or a conventionally-farmed orange from Chittering?’ Hear a discussion on food miles, genetic modification and what we eat. Participants will include Slow Food Perth co-leaders Pauline Tresise and Jamie Kronborg, organic farmer Annie Kavanagh and author Jude Bleureau in Mundaring old hall on Sun 09 Aug at 12:30pm.
More information
Mundaring truffle festival web
Slow Food Perth flyer
NEW world and old world cheeses / Sat 27 Jun 2009 / Slow Food Perth taste workshop / a comparative tasting of cheeses from Australia and Europe with Nick Bath at Blue Cow in Belmont. Fee: members $30, friends $35. Limited tickets remain. Please email to ascertain availability before completing our booking form .
AN interesting and comprehensive web site about tropical fruit and tourism in northern Queensland.
