SPENCERS Brook organic berkshire pig producer Annie Kavanagh is among 11 West Australians selected to participate in Slow Food’s Terra Madre world meeting of food communities in Turin, Italy, in October. Others include Wellard chilli growers Heather and Mike Biggs and Manjimup orchardist Lucinda Giblett.

Terra Madre, held every two years, brings together 5000 artisan producers and 2000 chefs, cooks, teachers, academics and young people to exchange ideas about small-scale agriculture, horticulture and fishing and the development of a ‘good, clean and fair’ food culture in the world.

St Hilda’s Anglican School for Girls’ principal Julie QuanSing-Rowlands has has been selected as a learning community delegate for her work with the Slow Food Perth-Millennium Kids food garden project called Food with latitude.

West Australian chefs and cooks chosen this year include Dunsborough’s Adam and Nicolette Lane, Balingup’s Katrina Lane, and Perth’s Valerio Fantinelli.

Nutritionist Stephanie McFaull, who has recently moved from Edith Cowan University to take up a position with Foodbank, will also participate as a youth delegate, together with chef Dave Pynt.

The Terra Madre organising committee has selected 42 Australian delegates for this edition. Among them is Tasmanian rare breeds and smallgoods producer Matthew Evans – The Gourmet Farmer in a recent series on SBS Television – and chefs Rodney Dunn and Severine Demanet from the sustainable, farm-based cooking school, The Agrarian Kitchen, in Tasmania’s upper Derwent valley.

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