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Dear Slow Food Leaders – an Open Letter from Carlo Petrini

25 March 2019 Carlo Petrini

Dear leaders of all Slow Food communities and convivia around the world, Dear Slow Foodies…

“Taste of the Sea” Opens its Doors to the Slow Fish Caribe Network

25 March 2019 Marta Arosio e Centro de Estudios Marinos (CEM)

With fishing, as with farming, Slow Food firmly believes that each individual can contribute to changing the mechanisms of a globalized food system based on the intensive exploitation of resources. By rediscovering those different and forgotten flavors that the globalized market tends to erase and creating new or updated recipes, the international Slow Fish campaign …

Feeding the World without the Use of Pesticides: Mission Possible

21 March 2019 Paola Nano

The Pesticide Action Week, an annual campaign taking place between March 20 and 30, has just entered its 14th edition. Over these ten days, at the very start of spring, the French organization “Generations Futures” musters up citizens, organizations and institutional stakeholders to tackle the issue of chemical pesticides and warn against the threats to …

Soyalism. Survival kit for the modern world.

21 March 2019 Eleonora Giannini

The new documentary by Stefano Liberti and Enrico Parenti illustrates how intensive pig farming and soybean cultivation are threatening local agricultural industries, our health and that of our planet too, from the USA to Brazil. It rains a lot in Soyalism, the new documentary by Stefano Liberti and Enrico Parenti,and much of it falls on …

Rediscovering the Value of Indigenous Fruits Through the Fruit and Juice Festival

18 March 2019 John Kiwagalo

The 7th edition of the Fruit and Juice Party was held on March 15, 2019, in Buikwe District, Uganda. The event attracted 665 people including students from 14 primary and secondary schools, 3 universities, government officials, CSOs, and members of local food communities, all gathered to celebrate local indigenous fruits and juices.

Slow Food in the Nordic Countries: Strenghtening a Regional Coalition

18 March 2019 Dominique Plédel Jónsson - Slow Food Reykjavík

On the first weekend in March, around 30 members from the different Nordic countries met in Ulvik, a Cittá Slow on the magnificent Hardanger fjord in Norway, in order to coordinate and discuss the future of Slow Food activities in the region.

Fridays for Future – Global Strike for Climate Change

14 March 2019 Giles Robinson

This Friday, March 15, countless thousands around the world will stand in solidarity with schoolchildren who are striking to demand immediate action on climate change. Slow Food will be marching alongside them on the Fridays for Future climate strike.

Fruit and Juice Party: Giving Real Value to the Diversity of Ugandan Fruit!

11 March 2019

Slow Food Uganda, in collaboration with Hivos, is organizing the 7th edition of the Fruit and Juice Party event this Friday, March 15 in Ngogwe, Buikwe. The event is open to the public, and its goal is to promote and facilitate sustainable fruit production, nutrition in schools, and the promotion of biodiversity conservation in communities.

Pure Beef – From Ranch to Table with Author Lynne Curry

6 March 2019 Giulia Capaldi

Pure Beef : An Essential Guide to Artisan Beef with Recipes for Every Cut by Lynne Curry provides any and all practical information that a meat consumer could dream of, and a ton of different recipes featuring all imaginable cuts of beef.

Waranà: A Tale of Indigenous Resistance

27 February 2019

Waranà means “the beginning of all knowledge” in the language of the indigenous Sateré-Mawé people from Brazil’s Amazon rainforest. The small red fruit is at the heart of Sateré-Mawé culture and the Slow Food Presidium built around it is helping elders pass on their knowledge to younger generations.

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