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International Slow Food Youth Network meeting #4: Sharing is key

April 14, 2014 by Caroline Cloutier

(Photo Credit: Anika Mester) The culmination of the two workshops featured at the Slow Food Youth Network meeting resolved in a fishbowl-type discussion, where we sat in a large circle, with 4 chairs in the middle, the rules being that the four in the middle are the only ones allowed to … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Blog Tagged With: Italy, slow food youth network

A Wild Salmon Manifesto for Slow Food Canada

March 21, 2014 by Caroline Cloutier

Slow Food in Canada encourages only the seasonal consumption of wild salmon on the West Coast, discourages the consumption of any form of farmed salmon including "organic" farmed salmon, and is committed to the restoration of wild salmon stocks. Read our Wild Salmon Manifesto, adopted in 2006, … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Slow Fish Tagged With: canada, manifesto, salmon, slow fish, slow food

Winnipeg’s Meet-ups warm up winter

March 20, 2014 by Caroline Cloutier

In February, Slow Food Winnipeg decided to focus on teaching their members how to create, from scratch, some of the most commonly purchased grocery items — pasta, cheese, and pickled vegetables. Their Manitoba Made Series was a big hit on Meetup.com. Many may wonder why Slow Food Winnipeg is … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Blog, Canadian Convivium Event Tagged With: events, Slow Food Winnipeg

Farm Olympics

March 18, 2014 by Caroline Cloutier

Farm Olympics happen everyday in the pig pasture. Feeding the sows who weigh in at 200 – 300 kilograms requires a lot of skill and I’m sure many Olympic athletes would find it quite challenging. The goal is to get the pig food spread evenly in the feed troughs and quickly so that all the pigs can … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Blog Tagged With: From the farm, Jerry Kitt, pigs

Slow Food Youth Network : On building and creating (Part III)

March 16, 2014 by Caroline Cloutier

READ THE 1st part and 2nd part of Darl’s story. The Slow Food Youth Network meeting also included a seminar from Joris Lohman, the chair of the network and its representative at the Slow Food Executive table, about fundraising. Joris opened with a brief introduction outlining that the Youth … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Blog Tagged With: Italy, slow food, youth

Okanagan Sockeye Salmon & Savignac Tomato enter the Ark of Taste

February 23, 2014 by Caroline Cloutier

Two products recently made their way on the Canadian Ark of Taste which reflects Canada’s vast, diverse landscape of peoples and foods. First up, the Okanagan Nation sockeye salmon: Throughout generations, it has been the mainstay for the food and trading traditions between First Nations bands … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Canadian Ark Tagged With: ark of taste, British Columbia, Canadian food, Québec

Monthly Conversational Salon in Saskatoon

February 23, 2014 by Caroline Cloutier

Every month, Slow Food Saskatoon hosts a conversational salon at a local coffee shop. Last January, Marc Loiselle, an organic farmer, was the special guest of the monthly event. He led an interesting discussion on organic farming, Red Fife wheat and the concept of terroir. Marc’s century-old … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Canadian Convivium Event Tagged With: Canadian food, Saskatchewan, Saskatoon, Slow Food events

Farm News: More problems on the road

February 23, 2014 by Caroline Cloutier

Driving down the road with a trailer full of pigs, what could go wrong? That’s when it happened. I think 21 was a record for the most pigs I needed to haul at once. Everyone wanted pigs on the same day and there was no changing their minds. The pigs loaded nice and settled in well to their new … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Blog Tagged With: From the farm, Jerry Kitt

Okanagan Food & Wine Writers’ Workshop Registrations are open

February 23, 2014 by Caroline Cloutier

The Okanagan Food & Wine Writers’ Workshop is a professional development and gastronomic experience that will take place on May 9-11, in Kelowna, British Columbia – an unparalleled food and wine region in North America. The workshop is open to writers of all levels, and is designed to inform, … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Slow Events Tagged With: Canadian food, Okanagan

International Slow Food Youth Network meeting Pt.2

February 23, 2014 by Caroline Cloutier

An extraordinary sense of organization   The first thing I notice I have forgotten every time I get to Italy is how transportation is “different” from here. Trains are everywhere, in every direction, presumably all leading to Rome one day. Turin (Torino) is the host city of Terra Madre, a … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Blog Tagged With: Slow Food events, Terra Madre, youth

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