Balkans - Slow Food International

Slow Cheese Bodrum is Here

5 April 2019 Deniz Kurtsan

The third annual edition of Slow Cheese Bodrum will take place next week in Turkey’s southwest, featuring a market, hands-on classes, tastings and excursions, and producers from around Turkey and the Aegean, all in the name of cheese!

Plovdiv Farmers’ Market Celebrates Terra Madre Day

1 December 2018

On December 1, 2018, the Farmers’ Market in Plovdiv celebrated Terra Madre Day with an unusual gathering. The prevailing participants this time were people (mainly women) who still remember and practice the preparation of traditional local food. Visitors from Staro Zhelezare, Belashtitsa, Markovo, Kurtovo Konare, and Hrabrino presented a variety of winter food –jams, lyutenitsa …

Ark of Taste: Bulgaria Hits 60 – 2 New Products Included in the List of Endangered Food Products

1 October 2018

Slow Food in Bulgaria continues its quest for food treasures hidden in the rural areas of the country. This time, the two new products aboard the Ark of Taste, the Slow Food catalogue of traditional foods at risk of disappearance, come from Staro Zhelezare, a village in the Hisarya municipality, Plovdiv district. Staro Zhelezare is …

Bulgaria Establishes the First 2 Slow Food Communities in the Balkans

3 September 2018

Bulgaria establishes the first 2 Slow Food Communities in the Balkans Bulgaria has been on the Slow Food map since 2004. Over the past 14 years, food activists in the Balkan nation have established a network of 14 convivia, 6 presidia, and added more than 50 products to the Ark of Taste. Slow Food International …

Slow Food Plovdiv paves the way for Plovdiv 2019 – European Capital of Culture

13 August 2018

Slow Food Plovdiv is a network of food communities, chefs, farmers, producers and citizens in the Plovdiv region, The young convivium is using the opportunity of Plovdiv’s tenure as European Capital of Culture to put food at the centre of the debate.

Brussels Tastes the Balkans: Discovering the Rich Gastronomic and Agricultural Heritage of South Eastern Europe

18 May 2018 Anne-Marie Matarrese

9 Brussels restaurants are joining forces with chefs from the Balkans for a night of discovery. On May 22, Brussels will embark on a culinary and cultural journey to uncover the rich gastronomic heritage of the Balkans: 9 Brussels restaurants are joining forces with young and innovative chefs from the Balkans to prepare an array …

Slow Food Makedonia – The establishment of a national Slow Food network in Macedonia

16 April 2018 Michele Rumiz

Over the weekend, on Saturday April 14, 57 delegates from throughout the Republic of Macedonia gathered in Skopje and established Slow Food Makedonia as the umbrella organisation bringing together all Slow Food convivia and food communities in the country. This formal step takes place 10 years after the establishment of the first Slow Food convivium …

Syrian Violinist and Italian Guitarist on the Road for Refugees

10 August 2017

Alaa Arsheed, a Syrian violinist, and Isaac de Martin, a Venetian producer and guitarist have one month to retrace the Balkan Route starting from Udine and arriving in Thessaloniki, Greece.