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Taste education

Eucalyptus wandoo barkReal milk taste. Image: Slow Food PerthTaste education using kitchen gardens. Image: Achivio Slow FoodAcquiring taste. Image: Archivio Slow Food

SLOW Food supports an innovative approach to taste education based on  reawakening and training the senses and building an understanding of all aspects of food. Taste education helps people to make daily choices about food with awareness and responsibility, turning the consumer into a co-producer, becoming an individual engine of true change, choosing good, clean and fair food.

Read a sample of Slow Food's taste education booklet, 'In what sense?'Slow Food taste education projects are different from any others because they are based on the idea that food means pleasure, culture and conviviality, and that the act of eating can influence values, attitudes and emotions. Slow Food sees learning as a reciprocal process: when a group of people become mutually involved around an educational activity or programme about food they spontaneously begin to form a community. Slow Food learning communities stimulate a real and much needed ‘cultural revolution’ through food by changing the mentality of ordinary consumers and their relationship with food.

What does Slow Food do?
Slow Food organises educational programmes at all levels and for everyone, from children and teachers to members and people attending events. These events are often co-ordinated at the local level by Slow Food convivia. There are more than 1000 Slow Food convivia across the world organising at least three to four events a year. This means that every hour there are three Slow Food events happening across the globe, and many of these are activities based on taste education.

Slow Food, through its convivia, Terra Madre communities and cooks, on the grassroots level, and through national associations, is involved in international projects and initiatives in more than 65 countries in the world.

Taste education activities and projects
Our activities and projects include:

  • sensory workshops for children
  • taste workshops for adults
  • school gardens
  • daily food
  • community projects

Information
Pauline Tresise
Co-leader
Slow Food Perth convivium
T 08 9381 4519
Email

Taste experience
Milk blind tasting [Aug 2009] James Dorey is a cheesemaker and member of Slow Food Perth. His description of a recent milk tasting illustrates the complexity and variety of different milks – just as exist in wine. Flavour and aroma can be clear indicators of the cow’s diet and how the milk has been produced and treated [...]