Slow Food home | About us | Foundation | Editore | Sloweb | Press Office | Store     Sloweb     Home | Sloweek | Voices from the Slow world | Slow Talk | News | Watch & Listen             Eataly Opens In Turin 02 Feb 07 - Sloweb EXCLUSIVE - After four years’ planning, Eataly, the first large store dedicated to high-quality food and drink (mainly Italian, plus a few products from other EU countries), was inaugurated in Turin last week. The store is located in the old Carpano vermouth factory — a listed national monument specially restructured over the last three years — on the city’s Via Nizza and houses a museum in honor of the historic drink. The site is just a stone’s throw from the city’s Lingotto exhibition center, where Slow Food stages its Salone del Gusto and Terra Madre every two years, and some have defined Eataly as a sort of all-year-round Salone. The brains behind the project, developed in collaboration with Slow Food (in an advisory role) Coop Adriatica, Coop Liguria e Novacoop Piemonte, is Oscar Farinetti, an old friend of Slow Food president Carlo Petrini. Slow Food’s consultancy has so far involved the building of a database of suppliers for Eataly and the organization of taste education and cookery courses to be launched next fall. Its Presidium products will also be available in the store. Eataly covers an area of 11,000 sq m (3,200 dedicated to teaching and education, 2,450 to the sale and tasting of food and drink). It also houses a formal restaurant, a number of small theme eateries, a library of gastronomy books and periodicals and a 200-seater lecture hall. Similar stores are scheduled to open in Milan, Verona, Bologna, Florence, Naples, Bari and Palermo. For more information: www.eataly.it   News archive from Terramadre News archive from Slowfood Foundation for Biodiversity News archive from University of Gastronomic Sciences News archive from Watch & Listen           News     Italy - 05 Feb 10     Pasta Madre     Farmers, academics, researchers, and members of the public will gather in Bologna this weekend as the city becomes host to Pasta Madre, Slow Food's two-day event focusing on bread, pasta...           News archive     France - 04 Feb 10     Europe Edges Towards Bluefin Ban     France announces their support for trade ban on blufin tune caught in the Mediterranean and Atlantic. ...     China - 03 Feb 10     China Considers Dog and Cat Meat Ban     Defenders of traditional cuisine and animal rights activists battle over potential ban on eating dog and cat meat in China ...     Paraguay - 01 Feb 10     Greenwashing for Beef Land     A Brazilian cattle-ranching company has been exposed for illegally bulldozing land belonging to a native tribe in Paraguay ...     Turkey - 29 Jan 10     First Slow Cities in Turkey and USA     New Slow Cities on the Californian and Ageana Coastlines ...     United States - 28 Jan 10     Freedom Food     Prisons launch grow-your-own schemes for inmates ...     Australia - 26 Jan 10     Slow Australians Awarded     Second-longest Australian Slow Food member named a Australian of the Year 2010 ...     Archive previous news   Slow Food 2010 - All rights reserved - P.iva 91008360041 - Powered by Blulab