台灣慢食會

1. Events Guide

Dear Friend,

2007 promises to be a year full of opportunities to involve Slow Food members in discussions and debate, as well as occasions to enjoy pleasant eno-gastronomic experiences.

Your role as leader is essential so that our members take part in the co-production of high quality food that is respectful of the environment and social rights. To assist you in this task we have created Convivial Pursuits, a guide to organizing Slow Food activities, projects and events. This Guide is the fruit of the extraordinary commitment each and every one of you all over the world have put into the Association.

In fact, in Convivial Pursuits we have collected a wealth of experiences that you have accumulated over the years. In the Guide you will find some 35 examples of fun and interesting events and initiatives to inspire you - from conviviality, to the pleasures of taste and slowness, to the basic themes of Terra Madre.

To consult or to download the Guide, access the Convivium Leader Area on www.slowfood.com (username: your member ID number, password: your email address) and from here the "Download" area, where you will find a link to Convivial Pursuits.

2. Terra Madre Update

The Hatahata fishermen tell about Terra Madre in Japan

The Hatahata fishermen reunited last December in Akita, Japan, to share the experience of Terra Madre and to look for solutions to protect their resources.
Hatahata, the symbolic fish of the Akita region, was abundant through the 1970's, after which began a sharp decline. From the Hatahata comes the Shottsuru, a type of fish sauce and traditional condiment of Akita, that today is produced traditionally by only a few producers. Among them is Moroi Hideki, who has participated at both editions of Terra Madre together with researcher Sugiyama Hideki, who specializes in fish resources. Sugiyama, looking for a solution to the drastic reduction of Hatahata in the 1990's, in the end decided on a three year moratorium on fishing, convincing the 1,000 fishermen of Kitura to follow this plan.
The conference, attended by Moroi, Sugiyama, and several Slow Food Japan representatives, illustrated the fundamental concepts underlying this project and discussed other international examples for fish resource protection collected at Terra Madre.

3. News From the Slow Food Foundation for Biodiversity

The latest on the Imraguen Women's Bottarga Presidium

After the successful sales of the bottarga at Salone del Gusto, produced by the Imraguen women from Nouadhibou, Mauritania using the Orbetello Lagoon Fish Cooperative facilities (a Slow Food Presidium and technical partner of the project), a technical mission, composed of Slow Food staff and technical partners, was sent to Mauritania to improve production on a local level.
During the mission an artisan workshop that will meet health and safety regulations, was identified and the technical partners observed the women perform a complete extraction and processing cycle in a temporary workshop, with the drying process already transferred to the new SAVA Cooperative workshop.
The bottarga, processed completely in Mauritania, will be sold at Slow Fish (May 4-7, Genoa, Italy). In the future, other cooperatives of women may replicate this project thanks the NGO Mauritanie2000, the local partner for the project.

Hilde's Unconventional Life

Anne Magnussen has produced a documentary about Hilde Buer, the coordinator of the newly born Norwegian Villsau Sheep Presidium.
Some years ago Hilde made a radical change in her life -she left her job and, with her daughter, moved to a farm on the island of Grøneng along the west coast of Norway where she began to breed Villsau sheep. However, at first things did not seem to be going her way, mostly because of a very cunning fox, then one day...
The documentary, titled "The Wild Sheep, the Fox and Love", has already won an award at the EcoFilm Fest (Czech Republic) and was recently selected by the jury of the International Documentary Association for the Distinguished Shorts Documentary Award.
To learn more, visit: http://www.nfi.no/english/norwegianfilms/show.html?id=733

The Region of Piedmont supports the Argan Oil Cooperative

Thanks to the financial support of the Region of Piedmont, the Slow Food Foundation for Biodiversity -together with the Coldiretti Piemonte and the University Mohamed I Agdal, Faculty of Sciences in Rabat -is working to support the women who produce Argan Oil in the southern Morocco (a Presidium since 2002).
The project, developed in the Essaouira, Taroudant, Chtouka Ait Baha Provinces of Morocco, was developed to improve the quality of the oil and production and storage processes, to enable the women to manage the Cooperative themselves, and to promote sustainable tourism in Morocco.

4. News From UNISG

January Thematic Stages

Beginning the second half of January, the students in all three years of the undergraduate degree course will go on thematic stages (field studies) to learn about the sweets, beer and coffee industries.
Lavazza will host the first year students, where they will attend seminars about the history, marketing, sales and consumption of coffee.
The second-year students will visit several famous confectioners of sweets (Baratti & Milano, Elah Dufour, the Ferrero Group, Pastiglie Leone, Caffarel and Lindt & Sprüngli) to study the technology, product processes, and marketing.
Third-year students will be divided into three groups and will travel within the regions of Piemonte, Friuli-Venezia-Giulia, Alto Adige and Lombardia to learn about the history and the methods of production of both artisan and industrial beer.
For more information, visit: http://www.unisg.it/eng/stage_tematici.php

Conferences at UNISG

The University of Gastronomic Sciences and the Slow Food Education Center together have developed a program of conferences for 2007 on the theme Good, Clean and Fair.
The conferences will be open to the public.
For more information and to download the program, visit: http://www.unisg.it/eng/index.php

Open houses -at the Pollenzo and Colorno campuses -Saturday, February 17, 2007 and Saturday, April 28, 2007, from 10 am to 5 pm. For more information and to make a reservation, comunicazione@unisg.it, tel. +39 0172 458 507/505/519.

5. Focus on the Convivia

Exchanges between Convivia: Bogota-Basel

During the meeting of leaders from Latin America at Salone del Gusto 2006, it was proposed to increase exchanges between different convivia throughout the world. The leaders from Basel, Jurg Ewald, and Bogota, Santiago Ribon, together with Gonzalo Jara, from the "Biodiversity Committee", decided to organize a cultural exchange and to develop an economic collaboration for some projects.
The Basil Convivium, for example, has chosen to sponsor the introduction of Colombian products in a market in Basel.

Two New Convivia in France

Two new convivia have opened in nothern France, bringing the total number of active local groups n the country to 36.
Slow Food Flandres-Artois inaugurated their activities in the Nord-Pas de Calais region, on the border with Belgium. Andouille de Cambrai, Fromage de Bergues, traditionally smoked fish from Boulogne and artisan beer are only some of the typical products from this area, which is rich with green pastures and coasts abundant with fish, but also is the site of some of the largest food industries in the country.
On the German border the Alsaziano Schnaeckele ("little snail" in the local language) Convivium has opened its doors. A close group of young people who are passionately gathering many followers have already created a website http://schnaeckele.com/. A delegation of members from both convivia visited Salone del Gusto for the first time last October and were impressed by the "metropolis of tastes", as put by the new leader of the Strasborg Convivium, and full of ideas and projects for the two new convivia.

The Future of SF in Belarus Discussed in Minsk

On January 10th, a meeting between the local convivium members, the Belarus food communities that participated in Terra Madre, and the producers from the new Rosson Wild Fruits and Infusions Presidium and was held in Minsk.
During the get-together the experiences and the results from Terra Madre were shared, and they discussed the problems associated with the protection of typical local food production and future development of Slow Food in Belarus. The challenge for the active Slow Food and Terra Madre group in Belarus is to spread to culture of food that is good, clean and fair in their country.

6. Major Events and Projects

Presidia and Food Communities at Salone Brazil

On November 29-30 and December 1, 2006 the first Salone of Rural Territories was held in Brasilia, an event that involved 180 territories and some 800 delegates from every corner of Brazil and saw strong participation from Slow Food - with all of the convivium leaders and representatives from the Slow Food Foundation for Biodiversity taking an active part.
The Rural Territories is a project of the MDA - the ministry that is charged with the development of marginal lands and family agriculture - and has gone forward since the first days of President Lula's government with the objective to revitalize small-scale agriculture and to return food sovereignty to the communities of the territories.
The leader of this project is Umberto Oliveira, undersecretary of the family agriculture delegation and a great admirer of Slow Food and Terra Madre.

Vic Forum 2007

>From February 11-14, 2007 the Vic Forum 2007 will be held in Catatonia. The meeting, dedicated to techniques in the kitchen, underscores the importance of quality products as a fundamental prerequisite to creating cuisine of excellence. Particular focus will be on bread, salt code, foreged products and pork, considering everything from their origin to commercialization to taste.
Slow Food will be present at the Forum, with Carlo Petrini as the Honorary Chair. The Spanish convivia, Slow Food, the University of Gastronomic Sciences and the Slow Food Foundation for Biodiversity will presents their projects, including the five Spanish Presidia and other international Presidia such as culatello of Zibello and the Saxon village preserves of Transylvania.

March of the Chefs 2007

In the United States preparations have begun for Slow Food Nation, a celebration of American food planned for Spring 2008 in San Francisco, which will showcase typical products from every region of the United States, provide education through taste, and will offer many avenues for discussing food and agricultural based on the principals promoted at Terra Madre.
The first initiative of 2007 to raise funds for Slow Food Nation will be the March of the Chefs, in which chefs from Indianapolis to Portland will plan a dinner based on products from the Ark of Taste or products from the food communities of Terra Madre. The chefs will also invite producers to share with them and the guests the experience of Terra Madre.
For more information contact: slowfoodnation@slowfoodusa.org

7. On the Slow Food Web Site

Carlo Petrini talks about the Brazilian Salone of Rural Territories: Zero Hunger

Slow Food Perth (Australia) supports food education in the Wembley Downs elementary school: How Our Garden Grows

8. Slow Food in the International Press

-"Manger est un acte agricole, produire est un acte gastronomique" (Eating is an agricultural act, Producing is a gastronomical act), by Eliane Patriarca, Libération (Francia), January 13, 2007 (in French).
Interview with Carlo Petrini.

-"El movimiento Slow Food recluta a profesores, restauradores y enó logos granadinos" (The Slow Food movement recruits Granadan professors, restaurateurs and wine professionals), Redacción GD, Granada Digital (Spagna), January 11 2007 (in Spanish).
Presentazion of the new Slow Food Granada Convivium.

-"Slow food gathers pace in Britain" by Heather Hay Ffrench, www.iafrica.com (United Kingdom), January 10, 2007 (in English).
Ludlow: the British Slow Food city.
　