Archive | August, 2010

The Raw and The Cooked

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[ September 12, 2010; 4:00 pm to 6:00 pm. ]

Slow Food Canada at the Canadian Chef’s Congress!

~The Raw & The Cooked~

A Slow Food Taste Workshop in Defence of Canadian Raw Milk Cheese

Although legal when aged 60 days, artisanal raw milk cheese in Canada continues to be threatened by obsessive health regulations and a one size fits all system that promotes large scale industrial production.  Read more »

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Pavlovsk Seed Bank faces destruction

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John Vidal, environment editor
guardian.co.uk , Sunday 8 August 2010 18.44 BSThttp://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2010/aug/08/pavlovsk-seed-bank-russia
‘Priceless collection’ in Russia was never registered so is therefore worthless and does not officially exist, say developers
Twelve Russian scientists famously chose to starve to death rather than eat the unique collection of seeds and plants they were protecting for humanity  Read more »

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Tamworth Pig- The Ark of Taste Nomination

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Tamworth Pigs
Young Tamworth Pigs
The first Tamworth pigs arrived in eastern Canada in 1877 and
grew in popularity relatively quickly. The breed was appreciated as a low-maintenance breed and
described as an “easy keeper.” Popular on many Canadian farms from east to west until the mid-20th
century, Tamworths accounted for 5-10% of the pure breed swine population in Canada  Read more »

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Une collection de 5000 variétés de petits fruits menacée de disparition en Russie à l’Institut Vavilov !

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Mis en ligne mercredi 11 août 2010 par Tela Botanica Association – Brèves

Pour son malheur, la station de Pavlovsk est située dans la banlieue de Saint-Pétersbourg. La Russian Housing Development Foundation, organisme public chargé de vendre des terrains  Read more »

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Yes, we can, CANADA!

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Canadian Event celebrating preserving!

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Slow Food is…

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Slow Food is a non-profit, eco-gastronomic member-supported organization that was founded in 1989 to counteract fast food and fast life, the disappearance  Read more »

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Terra Madre 2010

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[ October 21, 2010; ]

The five-day meeting will bring together food communities, cooks, academics, youth and musicians from all over the world, who are united in a desire to promote sustainable local food production in harmony with the environment while respecting knowledge handed down over the generations.

A new feature in 2010 will be a focus  Read more »

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Salone del Gusto October 21-25 2010

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[ October 21, 2010 9:00 am to October 25, 2010 12:00 am. ]

Salone del Gusto 2010
This eighth Salone del Gusto establishes the event’s international profile and confirms it as a key date in the calendar of everyone around the world who cares deeply about food. The Salone del Gusto and its parallel event, Terra Madre, have by now become two inseparable and interconnected  Read more »

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Taproot Farm Visit and BBQ Picnic

[ August 8, 2010; 12:00 pm to 3:00 pm. ] Dear Slow Food Nova Scotia Members
OUR NEXT EVENT

Sunday August 8th
12 -3pm
1736 Church Street
Port Williams ,NS

BBQ picnic and visit to Taproot Organic Farm
Patricia Bishop and Josh Oulton are two of the most dynamic young farmers in Eastern Canada today. Taproot Farm is their 30 acre Certified Organic farm on Starr’s Point in Kings County, NS. They  Read more »

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Welcome to new Slow Food Canada!

Welcome to new Slow Food Canada website we are in the process of set up and transfer of content, thank you for your patience, we will be up shortly

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