More video from Terra Madre’s opening ceremony:
Flag procession
Aminata Traoré (Mali)
Alice Waters (USA)
You can find more of aiolozil’s video clips here.
And here, you can view many people’s photos from the event.
TM Blog Administrator, 17:32:PM | Photos, Video | Comments (0)
Traditional brewers / beers and styles - Europe
Hi,
One of the workshops this year showed how consumers / brewers and producers can work together to use the best local ingredients, with the best local brewing skills to provide execellent traditional beers for local use.
I (and my colleagues in European Beer Consumers Union) reperesent all the beer consumer organisations across Europe and we are always keen to hear from European countries where there is no consumer representation and from local brewers who want help to discuss and promote their products.
Terra Madre delegate, 12:36:PM | Food Community, Language, English | Comment (1)
Presentation for the ‘Native Is Better’ agro-ecology workshop, Oct 27, 2006
I am both a farmer and an ecologist. I farm with my family in the the South-east Scottish Lowlands
I want to explore why native is better and than to share with you what we do on our farm with British native breeds.
To say that ‘Native is better’ is controversial – What defines Native ?
I believe it is not helpful to think automatically because something is native it is better. It is better to consider the purposes for which animals were and are bred.
Terra Madre delegate, 10:05:AM | Earth Workshop, Native/Rare Breeds, Earth Workshop Presentation, Country, UK, Language, English | Comment (1)
Dear colleague participating at Terra Madre!
On the 29th of October, at the assembly “Cooks in food systems”, Claudio Bincoletto, an event chef working in London, and I presented my idea or proposal of having a Cooks of Terra Madre Day the 11th of November each year. 11th of November is a day representing peace (end of First World War) and new beginnings.
It would also be a way for us, 1000 invited cooks, to show gratitude and good will towards Terra Madre and also to promote the values and spread the knowledge of Slow Food to influential people, press and hopefully to the public. Slow Food in Practice. A way of us cooks to “get out of the golden cages” as Carlo Petrini, the founder of Slow Food, put it in his final speech.
Terra Madre delegate, 12:44:PM | Cook, Language, English | Comment (5)
At Terra Madre we talked about our experience – that of a small group of restaurants, suppliers and an environment- alist - at practical implementation of good clean and fair, and how we are now working towards expanding this, creating simple collaborative networks of restaurants and suppliers. It had a great response, and a lot of people asked for copies of the presentation. So I’ve put it up here on the blog. We are feeling out way here. Focusing on practical implementation brings up lots of issues, so – please, please! – respond with comments and questions.
Terra Madre delegate, 10:31:AM | Cook, Earth Workshop Presentation, Country, UK, Language, English | Comment (2)
I am a cultivator,
I have no cast or creed
I always produce food
Out of healthy seed.
I wish to produce food
With the natural breed,
and discard artificials
So that the nature will lead.
Our father is the sky,
Our mother is the earth,
We, as the members of the Global family,
have to love each other and enjoy the mirth.
Basudeiba Kutumbakam! We are from one origin!
Terra Madre delegate, 17:23:PM | | Comments (0)
Moi c’est Yapi Manho Mathieu. Je viens d’Abidjan, Cote d’Ivoire.
Je suis agronome et je travaille comme formateur des agriculteurs du Ong GDS - Grain de Seneva (plus de 200 personnes).
Les agriculteurs s’occupent de la production de papaye Solo n.8, Sunset et Sunrise pour l’exportation et Red Panama pour l’extraction de papaïne, substance voisine de la pepsine.
Comme formateur je vais dans les villages à la rencontre des agriculteurs pour leur enseigner la pratique agricole et l’importance de la biodiversité sur place.
Pour moi Slow Food est un rêve, une philosophie de la construction de producteurs nouveaux, avec de nouvelle mentalité. L’Afrique noire regorge toutes les diversités biologiques et doit consommer cette biodiversité et en propager dans le monde entier.
Dans ces jours-là j’ai été frappé par l’idée avancée par Madame Traorè du Mali au meeting des Africains. Elle a invité les Africains à prendre conscience de ce qu’ils disposent en terre africaine.
Dans le futur je crois que la communauté africaine doit s’autosuffir, se nourrir, et diffuser l’information et le rêve de Slow Food. L’Afrique doit apprendere à produire africain pour jouir des fruits de ses labeurs. Il faut consommer africain.
Nous remercions la président de Slow Food, que Dieu le garde en vie longtemps.
A l’édition prochaine.
Slow Food, 10:47:AM | Faces of Terra Madre, Country, Ivory Coast, Language, English | Comment (2)
You are owed an apology. This is mine. I am a University of Gastronomic Sciences Masters student and had volunteered to cover this workshop and provide a summary for the Terra Madre website. Due to the lack of translation facilities I was unable to gain anything that could be described as a suitable overview. Due to the technical drop outs I could not hear everything and due to speakers being added at every turn, everyone was reduced to three minutes presentation time. The fact that the room was at ‘standing-room only’ level shows just how much the issues this workshop was to cover matter.
UNISG student, 17:34:PM | Earth Workshop, Food Networks, Language, English | Comment (3)
(Sorry for the out-of-chronological order of this post, but with the return of many delegates to their homes, we’re likely to turn up all kinds of content to post post-event.)
The Alavesa delegation (Spain) has posted a bunch of footage from the event. Here’s one of the members of their food community:
TM Blog Administrator, 16:07:PM | | Comment (2)
unforgetable and so hopeful to meet all of you! Gunther Naynar, Austria
Terra Madre delegate, 11:41:AM | Language, English | Comments (0)
