Slow Food UK AGM

Slow Food UK AGM The 2008 Slow Food UK AGM will take place on Saturday 26 April at the Riverside Hotel, Kendal, Cumbria, at 11.00 for 11.30 am. As well as the formal business of an AGM, there should be some interesting talks and discussions – it should be well worth the journey!

On 26 April Slow Food UK will hold its Annual General Meeting.  The AGM documents will be distributed to members on 1 April.   Our convivium’s leader, Sue Miller, will be standing for re-election to the Board.  (Her manifesto will be available on this website soon.)

This AGM taking place in Kendal, Cumbria.  If you are interested in attending, contact Sue for further details.  There will be additional events held over the weekend.

Details: SFUK website (follow the link to the members’ area)

London’s first Slow Food Market at Southbank Centre

Between Thursday 20th and Sunday 23rd December, the Southbank Centre will host the first Slow Food Market in London. The market will be held outside the Royal Festival Hall on Southbank Centre Square and will feature more than 25 stalls.

Details: Southbank Market

Tales of Terra Madre – Wild & Winter

Since 2004 Slow Food has promoted Terra Madre, a worldwide project that supports the principles of eco-gastronomy – small scale production of quality food, defence of biodiversity and knowledgeable and responsible consumption.  Terra Madre is an international network that allows all those involved in the food sector – farmers, fishermen, ranchers and herders, artisan producers, cooks, educators, researchers, scholars and “co-producers” – to get to know one another, to exchange knowledge and experience and to work together.  The last meeting of this network (held in Turin), in October 2006, gathered 4,803 farmers, breeders, fishermen and artisan food producers from 1,583 food communities and 150 nations; 953 cooks; 411 professors and representatives from 225 universities. 

Slow Food UK has been twinned with Gabon.  As a result the UK will help to set up a Terra Madre conference in 2008 in Gabon to bring together producers and co-producers from all over Gabon to record traditional recipes and methods farming that have never been recorded before.  This is a major step forward to securing the food heritage of this country which, without this initiative, would certainly be lost. 12 conviviums will be raising money to help Gabon Terra Madre hold this vital conference (Gabon dinners).

Please support Slow Food Bedford’s dinner.  75% of the profits will go directly towards Gabon Terra Madre and 25% will support Terra Madre in the UK.  Plus we will be holding a very special raffle on the night that will have some great Slow Food and local prizes.  The seating is very limited for this event so if you would like to attend, please e-mail Sue (slowfoodbedford@ntlworld.com) as soon as possible.

Event details: Wilde & Winter

Coming up this weekend

Ludlow Food & Drink Festival is on 7 – 9 September 2007.  Full details can be found on the website ( http://www.foodfestival.co.uk/ ).  The Slow Food Ludlow convivium is running a programme of Taste Workshops (programme attached ludlow-food-festival-tasteworkshops.pdf).