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Cheese 2019 is on the way!

Cheese 2019 is on the way!

27 May 2019

We already told you to mark the date on your calendars: the twelfth edition of Cheese will be held from September 20-23. Now you can add another date, June 26, when we’ll launch the first part of the program, which promises to be rich indeed.

Organized by Slow Food and the City of Bra, Cheese is the world’s biggest international event dedicated to raw-milk cheeses and other dairy products, held in the Piedmontese town that’s also home to Slow Food’s international headquarters.

A Land of Milk and Money

A Land of Milk and Money

13 February 2019 Carlo Petrini

On the Italian island of Sardinia, shepherds are pouring their milk out on the roads in protest at the crushingly low price that it is fetching. Who is to blame? What role do we as consumers play in the crisis?

Three Snails: A Year of Slow Food Events

Three Snails: A Year of Slow Food Events

28 January 2019

Slow Fish in Genoa, Slow Food Nations in Denver, and Cheese in Bra. Three international Slow Food events open to people of all ages, with a particular emphasis on younger generations. Find out more about their food, themes and stars: fishers, farmers, herders and cooks from around the world!

Cheese Berlin 2018- Blessed are the Käsemacher

Cheese Berlin 2018- Blessed are the Käsemacher

19 November 2018

Berlin hosted the seventh edition of its festival devoted to artisan cheese: Cheese Berlin. This year’s edition put a focus on the producers of cheese themselves, the Käsemacher.

Attacked and Threatened: Slow Food Stands with Agitu Ideo

Attacked and Threatened: Slow Food Stands with Agitu Ideo

29 August 2018

There is no doubting the courage and strength of Agitu Ideo. Here is a woman who is just as prepared to roll up her sleeves and work, as to stare down even the greatest of challenges. Her story sets a universal example of fortitude, a model to look up to. We know this not just …

Turkey’s Many Cheeses on Display

Turkey’s Many Cheeses on Display

27 July 2018 Michele Rumiz

At the beginning of the month, the tiny village of Boğatepe, near Kars in Turkey’s northeast, hosted cheesemakers and lovers from around the country for an exchange, while the local Kars Kaşar cheese was given Protected Geographical Indication (PGI) status. Following the event, which was a great success, Slow Food’s Michele Rumiz caught up with …

Bittersweet Victory for Scottish Raw Cheese Artisans

Bittersweet Victory for Scottish Raw Cheese Artisans

13 July 2018 John Cooke

After a costly, two-year fight, the Errington family, who have been making cheese in Scotland since the mid-1980s, have won a court case accusing them of causing a fatal case of food poisoning. The Errington family have a 300-acre farm near Carnwarth in Lanarkshire on which cheese has been made since the mid-1980s. Humphrey Errington …

Brazil: Santa Catarina legalizes sale and production of raw milk

Brazil: Santa Catarina legalizes sale and production of raw milk

15 December 2017

An important step forward for producers of raw milk cheese: these new regulations can help inspire other Brazilian states to adopt similar measures. On December 13, 2017, the Commission of the Legislative Assembly of the State of Santa Catarina in Brazil approved the proposed law 470,5/2017, which would allow for the production and sale of …

Slow Cheese Copenhagen 2017

Slow Cheese Copenhagen 2017

26 October 2017 Rasmus Holmgård

For the second year running the local Slow Food chapter in Copenhagen, Denmark, is hosting the cheese event of the year, featuring among many other prominent speakers Canadian natural cheesemaking guru, David Asher. Slow Cheese Copenhagen 2017 is the second installation of the Slow Food Copenhagen-North Zealand chapter’s regional cheese celebration – or festival, as …

Brazil: authorities destroy cheese at the Rock in Rio festival

Brazil: authorities destroy cheese at the Rock in Rio festival

21 September 2017

In Brazil there are three layers of inspection for meat and dairy products: municipal, state and federal. A product with municipal certification may be sold only within that locality, while state certification guarantees right of sale within the state and federal certification throughout the whole country. For small-scale producers, having federal certification is both expensive …

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