Insofar as it will start planning the structure Slow Food will have over the next ten to twenty years, the end-of-September Congress will be fundamental for the future of our association.

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.

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.