By Paul DeCampo The Slow Food Toronto community assembled on Saturday, June 18th, to learn about local and global fishing communities, and celebrate our relationship with an inspiring family of First Nations fishers. We were hosted by good food culture allies The Stop at Artscape Wychwood … [Read more...]
Eight chefs cooking eight sustainable local seafood dishes paired with eight Salmon-Safe local wines
By Julieanne Agnew Slow Fish Canada partnered with Chef’s Table Society to organize an amazing evening where eight of Vancouver’s local top chefs prepared eight sustainably raised and harvested seafood dishes which were paired with eight different Salmon Safe local wines for the 3rd Annual Slow … [Read more...]
Learn how to fish smelt with Slow Food Cocagne Acadie
Slow Food Cocagne Acadie received a group of twenty people for their smelt ice fishing activity on the Bouctouche River ice Saturday January 23rd. [Scroll down for the whole story] With more than 30 years experience, Roger Hébert taught the apprentice-fishermen how to catch … [Read more...]
Indigenous Resilience in the Face of Climate Change
By the Okanagan Nation Alliance Since 1996 and years before that, the Okanagan Nation Alliance (ONA), under the leadership of the Chiefs Executive Council (CEC), has dedicated their tribal efforts to re-establish their role as Indigenous Peoples by reintroducing ntytyix (sockeye salmon) … [Read more...]
Economic, social and cultural effects of privatizing Canada’s public fisheries resources
By Andrea Robertson, project Manager, Fisheries & Community Development, Ecotrust Canada BC’s fishing industry is a proxy for some of the most important political, economic, and cultural debates currently on the national stage: Who should benefit from Canada’s natural resources? Should we … [Read more...]
Slow Fish 2016 Gateway to the Americas program
(By the organizing committee of Slow Fish in New Orleans) Slow Food New Orleans will host Slow Fish 2016: Gateway to the Americas, March 10-13, 2016 in New Orleans at the Old US Mint and French Market. This Slow Fish event is an international gathering of fishers, scientists, chefs, students, … [Read more...]
A “Slow Fish” Chowder Recipe
(By Dave Adler, Off the Hook Community Supported Fishery) It’s autumn in Canada. The kids are back in school, there’s a chill in the air, and there’s a pile of wood in the driveway waiting to be stacked. At this time of year my BBQ is securely lashed to the railing, and I do most of my cooking … [Read more...]
“Slow Fish: Know Your Fisherman” Documentary: Here’s to Good, Clean and Fair Fish in Canada
Slow Fish Canada, part of the nation’s Slow Food movement, aims to protect and celebrate our diverse seafood from Coast to Coast. To this end, it has just released a new documentary called “Know Your Fisherman” that invites all Canadians to engage in finding local solutions to support a better … [Read more...]
A Wild Salmon Manifesto for Slow Food Canada
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...]
Slow Fish Canada rocked Slow Fish Month / Un succès pour le mois Slow Fish
By Dave Adler Started in the late ‘80s as a tongue-in-cheek protest to fast food (and fast living), Slow Food has grown into an international movement that celebrates and supports small-scale food systems. It believes, amongst others, the idea that both consumers and producers hold an active and … [Read more...]