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SLOW Food’s Terra Madre – world meeting of food communities – will be held again in Turin, Italy, 21-25 Oct 2010. This biennial event brings together more than 4000 farmers and fisherfolk, chefs, students and academics to explore common opportunities and challenges in the world of food, share ideas and build network [...]
SLOW Food Australia’s inaugural congress and annual general meeting will be held in the national capital, Canberra, on 28 and 29 May 2010. The event is being hosted by Slow Food Australia in conjunction with Slow Food Canberra [...]
THE Australian government, within days, has overturned a decision to allow the import of beef to Australia from countries that had at any time recorded a case of bovine spongiform encephalopathy, commonly known as ‘mad cow disease’. Australia, which is free of BSE and other devastating livestock diseases such as foot and mouth disease, is one of the world’s largest beef producers. The Australian cattle industry grows about 100 kilograms per year for each Australian, and Australians eat only 37kg per person per year. On 1 March the government lifted a nine-year ban on beef imports from BSE-affected countries such as the United Kingdom. But this week Agriculture, Fisheries and Forestry Minister Tony Burke effectively put a two-year stop [...]
RENOWNED Australian cook Maggie Beer – the second-longest Australian member of Slow Food – has been named one of the four Australians of the Year for 2010. Maggie was presented with the award, as senior Australian of the Year, by Prime Minister Kevin Rudd MP at a ceremony at Parliament House, Canberra, yesterday evening. Sydney food charity organiser Ronnie Kahn, of OzHarvest, was named Australian Local Hero 2010 [...]
A PLAN by multinational fast-food chain McDonald’s to open in Nuriootpa has drawn fire from the Barossa Valley’s regional food defenders. Leading identities Maggie Beer and her daughters Saskia and Elli, Jan Angas and Margaret and Phillip Lehmann say a proposal to site a McDonald’s in a $4.5 million development called Barossa Hub would be a thorn in the side of the Barossa’s established food culture [...]
