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28/07/2006
Souk el tayeb - Update
On the first day of the war, Nelly and Mona, coordinators of a recently founded Presidium, fled their border village (...)
12/07/2006
New Malaysian presidium
In May, Federica Tomatis traveled to Malaysia with Slow Food Foundation President Piero Sardo and Alberto Peroli, photographer and a Foundation technical partner (...)
27/06/2006
Slow Food Foundation for Biodiversity against International Whaling Commission decision
With the approval of the declaration of S. Kitts at the closing of the 58th meeting of the International Whaling Commission (IWC), whale populations find themselves at serious risk of extinction (...)
06/06/2006
Technical Mission in Guatemala
Andrea Ferrandi, coordinator of Central American presidia, Foundation President Piero Sardo and PausaCafè coordinator Marco Ferrero visited Guatemala (...)
25/05/2006
WWF honors Slow Food Foundation for Biodiversity
The Slow Food Foundation for Biodiversity was honored with the Special Golden Panda for cultural figures in the defense of biodiversity at a ceremony held May 22 at the Italian WWF national headquarters in Rome. (...)
22/05/2006
French Presidia Update
Two years after the first French presidium project was created, we went to check on the progress of all the projects on the other side of the Alps (...)
16/05/2006
The Slow Food Foundation and the Animation Cinema
The Slow Food Foundation for Biodiversity and Animation Cinema meet at the Experimental Center of Chieri (...)
12/05/2006
Important Accord for the Terra Madre Foundation
Agreement Signed by Directorate General for the Development Cooperation of the Italian Ministry of Foreign Affairs and the Terra Madre Foundation. (...)
12/05/2006
Official Visit to Norway
Carlo Petrini and presidia and Terra Madre coordinators for northern Europe made an official visit to Norway from April 30 to May 5 (...)
03/05/2006
From Tibet to New York
Slow Food Tibetan Plateau Yak Cheese is featured in US events (...)
18/04/2006
Three Presidia on the Big Screen
From April 26 to May 1 the city of Bra (CN) will host the tenth edition of ‘Corto in Bra’ (www.cortoinbra.it), one of the first festivals in Italy to promote short films (...)
10/03/2006
Slow Food effort in rebuilding the local food system in the Gulf Region affected by Katrina
Following the natural disaster that has shocked the United States Slow Food has actively intervened to sustain the Gulf area in ways coherent with its philosophy and its current programs (...)
30/01/2006
Cioccolosità 2006
The sixth edition of an event dedicated to lovers of artisanal chocolates, “Cioccolosità”, will take place this year, February 3-5 in Monsummano Terme, a medieval town in the Tuscan “Chocolate Valley”, near Pistoia (...)
20/12/2005
Help small food producers affected by Katrina in the Gulf Coast Region
On the morning of August 29, 2005, Hurricane Katrina's storm surge caused extensive damage along the central Gulf Coast, affecting the states of Alabama, Florida, Louisiana and Mississippi (...)
01/12/2005
The Japanese Ark Sets Sail
Friday, December 2, 2005, at 5 p.m., a press conference will be held in the Maruouchi Building in Tokyo to present the first Japanese products to board the international Ark of Taste. (...)
28/09/2005
The Taste of Design - Alessi becomes a supporter of the Slow Food Foundation for Biodiversity
For 80 years at its Crusinallo plant - a true Italian design factory - Alessi has produced housewares, kitchen accessories and appliances and ceramics designed by the most renowned artists, designers and architects in the world (...)
12/09/2005
European Conference on Local and Regional Food - Sweden, Gothenburg
The Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences is organizing the first European Conference on Local and Regional Food, held September 27-28, 2005 (...)
07/09/2005
From Farigliano to Mount Ararat - Beppino Occelli adopts an ancient Armenian cheese
The valleys of imposing Mount Ararat (5,165 m in altitude), where, according to the Bible, Noah’s Ark landed, seem a natural site for a Slow Food Presidium (...)
01/09/2005
The Australian Ark of Taste sets off
The Australian Ark of Taste Commission – presided over by Barbara Santich, Gastronomy Chair, University of Adelaide, and made up of William Studd, Glenn Wightman, Margaret Sedgley, James Broadway, Cherry Ripe, Christine Ross and Nick Ruello – has selected its first four products. (...)
26/08/2005
The Sheepdrove Trust sustains the Hungarian Mangalica Sausage Presidium
The Sheepdrove Trust has become a Project Benefactor of the Slow Food Foundation for Biodiversity, supporting the Hungarian Mangalica Sausage Presidium through a generous grant of 20.000 GBP. (...)
11/08/2005
Noahs of the World
The Slow Food Foundation for Biodiversity has scheduled a meeting for members of the International Ark Commission and some of the International Presidia coordinators from September 2-4 2005 (...)
18/07/2005
The 10th Culatello d'Oro award goes to Pello Urdapilleta
The “Culatello d'Oro” is a renowned international acknowledgement conceived by the Zibello Culatello Consortium. (...)
15/07/2005
The German Ark of Taste begins sailing
The new German Ark of Taste Commission is led by President Dinah Epperlein, Göttingen Slow Food Convivium Leader, and has selected its first four products. (...)
28/06/2005
From the Vineyards of the Roero to the Tatra Mountains
A group of Roero vine growers will visit the Polish shepherds of the Tatra Mountains on Friday the 1st and Saturday the 2nd of July. The reason for this visit is a meeting between the wine producers of the Roero region and the batsa, the Oscypek’s producers. (...)
10/06/2005
Presidia Wines, Malgache Rice and Vanilla at Bagnacavallo Event
Emilia Romagna event hosts Presidia and the Slow Food Foundation. (...)
07/06/2005
Fish Presidia at the Stockfish Festival in Bergen, Norway
Four Italian and International Presidia will be present at the Tørrfiskfestivalen, the stockfish festival held in Bergen in western Norway, June 10-12, 2005. (...)
08/04/2005
Sweden's Ark Commission Meets in Uppsala
The inaugural meeting of the Swedish Ark commission was held in March 2005 in Uppsala. The group of researchers, chefs, and specialists who make up the commission used the day-long gathering to evaluate the first round of candidatures for Sweden's Ark of Taste. (...)
06/04/2005
The Launch of the Museo del Agua, headquarters of the Mexican Presidia
On March 17, 2005, in the Tehuacán-Cuicatlán valley in Puebla, Mexico, Raul Garciadiego (coordinator of the Amaranth Presidium) officiated at the inauguration of the Museo del Agua, a project conceived for exploring the themes that the non-profit Alternativas y Procesos de Participación Social has addressed for the past twenty years. (...)
10/03/2005
Nacional Cacao Presidium at Cioccolatò
During the event Cioccolatò, which will be held in Turin between March 4 and 13, the Slow Food Foundation will present the Ecuadorian Nacional Cacao Presidium. (...)
17/02/2005
A World of Presidia dinners
A World of Presidia dinners will be held in six American cities in the months of February and March 2005. They will feature products from the Slow Food Foundation's Presidia projects (...)
29/01/2005
Inaugural Meeting of UK Ark Commission Scheduled for January 29
The Ark commission of the United Kingdom will be meeting on January 29 at London's Wine Wharf. The meeting will include journalists, researchers, and food producers from Scotland, Wales, and England, who will evaluate candidatures of products to be included in the Ark of Taste. (...)
14/01/2005
Slow Food meets the Technical and Scientific Branch of the Italian ministry for Foreign Affairs (IAO)
On January 12, 2005, the general director of the Technical and Scientific Branch of the Italian ministry for Foreign Affairs, Alice Perlini, met the President of Slow Food, Carlo Petrini, to sign an agreement of cooperation, which inaugurates an important collaboration on new projects in developing countries. (...)
03/12/2004
Producers of the Mangalica Sausage Presidia meet with those of the Cinta Senese and Prosciutto del Casentino Presidia
From December 7-13 the pig farmers and sausage makers of the Mangalica Sausage Presidia, Olga Rendek, Lazslo Rendek, Zsuzsa Molnar and Iren Pal Gaborne, will be visiting Tuscany to learn about two Presidia projects extremely relevant to their small cooperative: the commercial reintroduction of the Cinta Senese breed and the marketing and promotion of Prosciutto del Casentino. (...)
26/10/2004
Exchange of Experiences Between the Blue Egg Chicken Presidium and the Valdarn Chicken Presidium
From October 26 through 29, two representatives from the Blue Egg Chicken Presidium of Chile travelled to Tuscany to meet the producers of the Valdarno Chicken Presidium and to learn directly from their experiences in selection of this breed, sustainable production and the commercialization of the chickens and eggs. (...)
03/09/2004
Chouriço de Mirandesa Presidium Created
Slow Food’s first Portuguese Presidium has come into being! Note before time in view of Portugal’s wealth of ancient, local breeds and products, some relatively unknown but all excellent. This Presidium is for a type of sausage - chouriço de Mirandesa. (...)
31/08/2004
Slow Food Tuscany President meets Slow Food Poland
Slow Food Tuscany President Claudio Martini has met Slow Food Poland during his official visit in Cracovia on Monday, 31st of August.
14/06/2004
The Oscypek Presidium meets Roero wines in Varsavia
This “strange couple”, Roero wines and Oscypek, cheese from the Tatra mountains of Poland, has won over Varsavia.
A fort dating from the eighteenth century provided a marvellous setting for the convivial evening that took place in the heart of the Polish capital (...)
07/06/2004
Visitors to the Seaside Presidi from Albania and Chile
From June 7-11 representatives of the Presidium of Seafood from Robinson Crusoe Island in Chile and also members of an Albanian fishing cooperative will visit the Orbetello Grey Mullet Roe Presidium and the Tuscan Island Palmita Presidium. (...)
28/05/2004
Dolceacqua con Gusto
From May 28-30 the Slow Food Convivium “Val Nervia e gli otto comuni” has organized an event in Dolceacqua, a prototypical Ligurian village. The event spans three days and includes presentations, dinners and taste workshops (...)
19/05/2004
The first Swedish Presidium in Milan
Slow Food, in collaboration with Guido Berlucchi, has organized a series of dinners to present Presidium projects and support the Slow Food Foundation for Biodiversity. (...)
26/04/2004
A group of Polish sheperds visits Italian Presidia
Oscypek Presidium delegates, shepherds from the Tatra mountains of Poland, recently visited the Alpago lamb Presidium in Veneto and the Zeri lamb and Pistoian Mountain Pecorino Presidia in Tuscany in the first of a series of exchanges between (...)
23/04/2004
Chilean movie and dinner
In honor of the International “Short Film in Bra” Festival (April 21-25, 2004) – this year featuring the new documentary category “Slow Food on Film Doc” – the Slow Food Foundation for Biodiversity will celebrate with an evening of the culture, traditions, and gastronomy of Chile. (...)
17/04/2004
The Zincarlin Producers of Switzerland will meet the Producers of the Robiola of Roccaverano
The first Swiss Presidium will meet one of the oldest Italian Presidia. This meeting was organized through the contacts developed during the creation of the Zincarlin Presidium in Switzerland. (...)
03/04/2004
The Foundation sponsors receive a certificate of sponsorship
This Saturday at Vinitaly there will be a ceremony in which the Foundation sponsors will receive a certificate of sponsorship, taking place at the stand of the Region of Tuscany, the Foundation’s founding partner. (...)
12/03/2004
The first Hungarian Presidium
The Mangalica pork sausage is the first Presidium created in Hungary. It is produced in Kinkusag region, in one of the most important parks of the Country. This is a potentially very interesting Presidium; there is a heritage breed to reintroduce (...)
 
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