Get the latest on what’s happening at the world’s largest international dairy festival, Cheese, which will be returning to Bra, Italy for its 11th edition from September 15-18, 2017.

China is a country of great contradictions, but we are confident that what will become clear during our Congress is a desire for change and the emergence of a new movement permeating the cities from the countryside. Slow Food’s task will be to recognize this process and to fuel it.

I donned all the relics and charms I had for a safe travel. I have never been to Zamboanga, the side of Mindanao close to a so-called red zone and so St. Christopher, sacred geometry and Lapiz Lazuli stones chaperoned me on that trip. I was to land in Ozamiz and then arrange for a 2-hour ride to Dumingag.