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A Recipe from the Spanish Slow Food Cooks’ Alliance: Fideuá con Gatet, or Fideuá de Pintarroja

25 July 2021

Chef and cooking instructor Vanesa Bustos has been a member of the Slow Food Palancia-Mijares Convivium since 2009. She recently collaborated on the creation of the La Terreta Ibérica community of cooks within the Cooks’ Alliance. Here she shares with us a fascinating recipe, typical of her home region, the Comunidad Valenciana: fideuá con gatet, …

Two Dishes in One Pot: Doshama Pilaf and Rice Pilaf with Dill

17 February 2021 Anna Kanshieva

Doshama Pilaf and Rice Pilaf with Dill: this month’s Cooks’ Alliance recipe is a traditional Azerbaijani rice specialty. Firdovsi Ismayilov, a chef from the Slow Food Cooks’ Alliance in Azerbaijan, has shared with us his recipe for a hearty and flavorful dish often served at festive occasions like New Year’s Eve or Novruz, a national …

Plum and honey crumble

25 January 2021

The Chefs’ Alliance recipe of this month is Swiss honey flavoured crumble. Brigitte Streiff shared with us the recipe for a very easy to do dessert, but don’t make it unless you signed the “Save the bees and farmers” petition to be submitted to the European Commission to ban pesticides that are harmful to our …

Confit Bean Stewed with Pagel

14 August 2020

Marrying the creamy Confit Bean and the delicate Mediterranean Pagel fish, chef and cooking educator, Vanesa Bustos, from the Palancia-Mijares convivium in Spain, created a delicious recipe that represents this corner of the world and promotes biodiversity. Vanesa began her career in the kitchen at the age of 25, first studying in the kitchen school …

Elberta Peaches and the Masumoto Family Farm

13 August 2020

For four generations, the Masumoto family has been growing heirloom peaches and nectarines, together with apricots and grapes for raisins, promoting biodiversity, and an agroecological model of fruit production. During a Facebook LIVE session, the Slow Food USA network brought us an interview with Mas and Nikiko from Masumoto Family Farm near Fresno, California. Through …

Meatless Monday Ingredients to Help You Survive Culinary Distancing, Part 2 (Nut/Seed Butters)

10 April 2020 Richard McCarthy

At a Stooges concert in 1970 in Cincinnati, OH, punk rocker Iggy Pop stood atop the shoulders of fans, was handed a jar of peanut butter and rubbed it on his bare chest and flicked gobs of it into the audience. This scene was captured on film and has, as a result, become an iconic …

Slow Food Recommends: Ideas for Your Slow Weekend

27 March 2020 Indre Anskaityte

As most of us are going to spend our weekend indoors, Slow Food has come up with ideas for your slow weekend. There are plenty of books, movies, podcasts, online webinars that talk about food, our environment and the importance of having a good, clean and fair food system. Take this slow time to catch …

Chef’s Alliance Recipe – Michael Recktenwald

28 January 2019

The Chef’s Alliance Recipe this month comes to us from Langeoog, a little island in the North Sea, where chef Michael Recktenwald and his wife, brother, and sister-in-law promote sustainability in their hotel, bakery, and restaurant. On the menu: Braised Lamb with Beans

Food, the Recipe for Dialogue

22 January 2019 Valentina De Gregorio

Ninety people, living across six Piedmontese provinces, and originating from over 30 countries between them, all with different backgrounds in farming, restaurants, or business, are the diverse participants in Le ricette del dialogo. Cibo e storie per l’intercultura e l’integrazione “Recipes of Dialogue: Food and stories for multiculturalism and integration”. This Slow Food project, started …

Chef’s Alliance Recipe – Smoked Pork with Axone – Joel Basumatari

21 September 2018

Joel Basumatari is a chef from India and a member of the Slow Food Chefs’ Alliance. Here he presents his recipe for for smoked pork with fermented soy beans known as axone.