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Call them by their name: raw milk cheeses denied their identity

3 October 2023 Jack Coulton

“I have given you my soul; leave me my name!” cries John Proctor at the end of Arthur Miller’s 1953 play The Crucible, refusing to sign a confession that would spare him from a death sentence for witchcraft. Perhaps it’s a stretch, but we can see some parallels with the plight of raw milk cheesemakers …

Plovdiv – 2019 European Capital of Culture

24 January 2019 Dessislava Dimitrova

Slow Food Plovdiv was established in 2016, and this year is taking part in a project alongside local partners and the city administration, as Plovdiv bears the mantle of European Capital of Culture in 2019

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.