Following on the overwhelming success of Terra Madre 2004, Slow Food will once again convene a "World Gathering of Food Communities" in Torino this October 26-30. This year, in addition to 5000 farmers, fishers, brewers, winemakers, cheesemakers, beekeepers and all sorts of other food artisans from nearly 150 countries, Slow Food has invited 1000 chefs from around the world.
I was a delegate in 2004, and will be again this year (and I'll be blogging it here). Another chef present at the first one was Rick Bayless. I asked him his thoughts when he was interviewed here on ChefTalk, and here's what he said about his experience. Tony Bourdain and Michael Pollan are also among the supporters.
It's important that the Terra Madre network include chefs, because they are the link between the producer and the consumer (although Slow Food prefers the term "co-producer" to consumer, because as Wendall Berry said, "eating is an agricultural act").
Terra Madre will continue to construct a global network of food communities with a vision of a better food system, one that produces food that is good, clean, and fair.
Contempraneously, Slow Food will also produce the Salone del Gusto - the largest food show on earth. Picture the NRA show but exclusively food (no EcoLab), and exclusively artisanal (no jalapeno poppers). In 5 days more than 150,000 people will attend the exhibition, sit in on taste panels and workshops, and learn what Slow Food truly is: Food that is raised with care, prepared with passion and served with love.
I was a delegate in 2004, and will be again this year (and I'll be blogging it here). Another chef present at the first one was Rick Bayless. I asked him his thoughts when he was interviewed here on ChefTalk, and here's what he said about his experience. Tony Bourdain and Michael Pollan are also among the supporters.
It's important that the Terra Madre network include chefs, because they are the link between the producer and the consumer (although Slow Food prefers the term "co-producer" to consumer, because as Wendall Berry said, "eating is an agricultural act").
Terra Madre will continue to construct a global network of food communities with a vision of a better food system, one that produces food that is good, clean, and fair.
Contempraneously, Slow Food will also produce the Salone del Gusto - the largest food show on earth. Picture the NRA show but exclusively food (no EcoLab), and exclusively artisanal (no jalapeno poppers). In 5 days more than 150,000 people will attend the exhibition, sit in on taste panels and workshops, and learn what Slow Food truly is: Food that is raised with care, prepared with passion and served with love.
