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     United States - 01 Sep 10     Eataly in New York     The philosophy and campaigns promoted by Slow Food over the past twenty years to strengthen regional, tasty and sustainable food, and reconnect consumers with the origin of their food, have...           News archive     Brazil - 17 Aug 10     Gastromotiva     Terra Madre chef and Slow Food convivium empower disadvantaged youth to enter culinary careers ...     Russia - 16 Aug 10     Biodiversity Hangs in the Balance     Slow Food joins the protest against destruction of Europe’s largest repository of rare fruit ...     United Kingdom - 13 Aug 10     Food Justice     Slow Food UK praises social justice report’s call for action ...     Philippines - 10 Aug 10     Against the Grain     The Indigenous Taguibong people in the Philippines continue to practice the traditional rice threshing and milling methods of their ancestors ...     Georgia - 05 Aug 10     Meeting in the Birthplace of the Vine     First Terra Madre Georgia held with a focus on wine and small producers ...     Italy - 03 Aug 10     Strengthening the Indigenous Voice     Slow Food enters into a partnership to advocate for indigenous groups around the world ...     Archive previous news   Slow Food 2010 - All rights reserved - P.iva 91008360041 - Powered by Blulab