Slow Food in Motion
The Slow Food movement’s 80,000 members are busy these days. So are the bloggers who support them. The flavors, political ferment, and record attendance of 16,000 people in one weekend at Australia’s Taste of Slow Festival has been enthusiastically documented by bloggers the world over, including Mighty Foods, A Few of My Favorite Things, Caper Berry Gravy, Esurientes, and alice q. foodie. Some of the most extensive coverage came from the Abbotsford Blog, a community weblog from the Melbourne neighborhood that hosted the event. There’s also a collectively-authored blog from the Slow Food Brisbane convivia, one of the all-volunteer committees that nurtures the growth of this Italian philosophy about food that’s “good, clean, and fair” in Australia.
The Slow Food captial in Turin, Italy, will host two more major events in the coming months: the Salone del Gusto (the annual celebration on which Australia’s A Taste of Slow was based) and Terra Madre (a symposium uniting farmers, breeders, fishermen, and traditional food producers from 150 countries). Scores of bloggers will no doubt turn out in support, and Slow Food insiders will publish news on the Terra Madre 2006 Blog.
