Slow Food supports an innovative approach to taste education based on the reawakening and training of the senses and the study of all aspects of food.

Taste Education helps people to make daily choices about food with awareness and responsibility, turning the consumer into a co-producer, becoming an individual engine of true change, choosing Good, Clean and Fair food.

Slow Food Taste Education projects are different from any others insofar as they are based on the idea that food means pleasure, culture and conviviality, and that the act of eating can influence values, attitudes and emotions.

Slow Food views learning as a reciprocal process; when a group of people become mutually involved around an educational activity or program about food they spontaneously begin to form a community.

Slow Food learning communities stimulate a real and much needed “cultural revolution” through food by changing the mentality of ordinary consumers and their relationship with food.

What does Slow Food do?
Slow Food organizes educational programs at all levels and for everyone, from children and teachers to members and event-goers. These events are often organized at the local level by Slow Food convivia. There are over 1000 Slow Food convivia across the world organizing at least 3 to 4 events a year, every hour there are thus 3 Slow Food events happening across the globe, and many of these are activities based on taste education.

Slow Food, through its convivia, Terra Madre communities and cooks, on the grassroots level, and through national associations, is involved in international projects and initiatives in more than 65 countries in the world.

Our Activities and Projects

• Sensory workshops for children
• Taste workshops for adults
• Courses for members - Master of Food
• School Gardens
• Daily Food
• Community projects

For further information:

education@slowfood.com