SBS editor Alix Clark covers Slow Food Perth’s ‘Slow food at the edge of the world’ cultural conservation project in the Oct 2011 edition of Feast magazine. ‘We talk to four migrants and refugees in Perth about their cultures…and the foods of their homelands,’ Alix writes. ‘Many of the recipes have been passed down by oral tradition…’ Buy Feast or subscribe on-line.

Slow Food’s Foundation for Biodiversity has included Australia’s wessex saddleback pig in its international Ark of Taste. For more than a thousand years this breed foraged the New Forest in the English county of Hampshire. In the 1930s some purebred stock was imported to Australia. Read about the saddleback’s Ark nomination.

Support Australia’s producers at farmers’ and fish markets. Bypass the Coles-Woolworths duopoly. Buy direct from the people who grow our food, or from the independent, specialist grocers, fruiterers and butchers who support them. Find a local market at the Australian Farmers’ Markets Association. Join the buy local campaign.

Australian producers, chefs, students and teachers were among 10,000 people at Slow Food’s Terra Madre and Salone del Gusto in Turin, Italy, 21-25 Oct 2010. Read about the expectation, challenge and experience of Slow Food’s key biennial events: the intellectual spring that is the world meeting of food communities and the world’s fair of artisan food.