Photos: Wild & Winter

Thank you to everyone who attended or contributed to the fund-raising evening on 27 October 2007. A staggering £1006 was raised. This money has gone to Slow Food UK who will distribute to the Terra Madre for Gabon (75%) and the UK (25%)  . More details about how your money will help the people of Gabon to record their food and agricultural heritage will follow in future newsletters.

Photos: Wild & Winter pictures

Slow Food Cambridge event

Slow Food Cambridge are holding a fundraising dinner for the Terra Madre projects on 17th October. 

Event details: Anchor Inn

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

Taking back life

Carlo Petrini has written a new Slow Food pamphlet called ‘Taking back life‘.  It summarises some of the current initiatives and the key themes for the Slow Food 2007 International Congress taking place in November (in Mexico).