Dear Friends of Terra Madre: It is with the deepest and most profound grief that I write this message. At 5:30am November 19th, 2008, we awoke to our beautiful 100 year old gambrel barn engulfed in flames. Trapped within the barn was my beloved stallion, several rare Mulefoot hog sows with their...

The closing press conference for Salone del Gusto, held this afternoon, saw the participation of Mercedes Bresso, President of the Piedmont Regional Authority; Alessandro Altamura, the City of Turin’s Councilor for Commerce, Tourism, Production and Urban Marketing; and Carlo Petrini, Slow Food...

2008 has been an exciting year for the Ark of Taste which was the initial project developed by the Slow Food Foundation for Biodiversity. ...

Among the rich program of Earth Workshop to be held this year at Terra Madre, a special seminar was dedicated to learning communities, a concept which Slow Food has been developing over the past two years. The concept refers to a group of people who form a reciprocal learning and teaching community...