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Our History - A Slow Chronolgy
From Arcigola to Slow Food The birth and development of an international association.
| 1980 |
Libera e Benemerita Associazione Amici del Barolo (Free and Meritorious Association of Friends of Barolo wine), the nucleus of what is to become Arcigola, comes into being in Bra (Italy).
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| 1986 |
Arcigola association formed in the Langhe district of Piedmont, Italy.
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| 1988 |
First national congress of Arcigola in the province of Siena.
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| 1989 |
International Slow Food movement founded at Opéra Comique in Paris and Slow Food Manifesto signed.
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| 1990 |
First Slow Food international congress in Venice. Publication of Osterie d"Italia guide marks the birth of Slow Food Editore.
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| 1992 |
Slow Food Deutschland opens its office in Germany.
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| 1993 |
Slow Food Switzerland opens its office in Zurich.
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| 1994 |
Slow Food organizes Milano Golosa event, a trial run for what will become the Salone del Gusto in Turin.
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| 1996 |
In April the first issue of Slow, Herald of Taste and Culture, the Slow Food international magazine, comes out in Italian, English and German.
At the end of November, Slow Food organizes the first small-scale, experimental Salone del Gusto in Turin, where it presents the Ark of Taste project.
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| 1997 |
"Dire fare gustare" (Saying, Doing, Tasting) conference marks the beginning of the Slow Food taste and food education project, which over the years involves teachers and pupils in many Italian schools.
In September Slow Food organizes Cheese, milk in all its shapes and forms, the first international quality cheese fair, in Bra.
In October the second international Slow Food congress is held in Orvieto.
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| 1998 |
In July Slow Food sets up the Agenzia di Pollenzo, a company whose aim is to restore the former Savoy residence in Pollenzo (Bra). The area will eventually house the University of Gastronomic Sciences, a hotel, a restaurant and the "Wine Bank".
In October the second Salone del Gusto is held in Turin, this time open to the public: 120,000 visitors take part in its Taste Workshops, conferences and events.
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| 1999 |
In May Slow Food launches a campaign to collect signatures in defense of Italy"s food and wine heritage and to demand a review of the European HACCP regulations. Cheese returns for the second time to Bra. The concept of Slow Food as an ecogastronomic movement is introduced on the occasion of the Slow Food Australia Congress.
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| 2000 |
In January the Presidium project is launched, local initiatives aiming to safeguard or revive small-scale artisan production at risk of extinction. In March Slow Food USA is founded and opens its office in New York.
In October the first edition of the Slow Food Award for the Defense of Biodiversity is held in Bologna.
The third Salone del Gusto is held in Turin: 130,000 visitors and the first 91 Italian Presidia presented to the public.
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| 2001 |
New Slow Food sites set up (www.slowfood.it in Italian and www.slowfood.com in English).
Slow Food launches the "No GM Wine" campaign against the commercialization in Europe of transgenic vines and draws up the Manifesto in Defense of Raw Milk Cheeses.
Third edition of Cheese held in Bra and second edition of the Slow Food Award held in Oporto, Portugal.
In December Slow Food launches a new educational project for adults: the Master of Food, an enogastronomic study program divided into 20 theme courses.
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| 2002 |
Third Slow Food Award and fourth Salone del Gusto held in Turin: 138,000 visitors and presentation of the first 30 international Presidia.
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| 2003 |
Thanks to its founding member the Regione Toscana the Slow Food Foundation for Biodiversity is officially set up to support the Slow Food Award, the Presidia and the Ark of Taste.
In April Slow Food signs an agreement of understanding with the Brazilian government in Brasilia to set up projects supporting small-scale traditional agriculture. Slow Food France founding congress held in Perpignan with office opened in Montpellier.
First edition of Aux Origines du Gout, biennial meeting of worldwide terroirs organized by Slow Food France, where quality food and wine artisans present their goods to the general public, organize taste workshops and discuss the value and future of typical and local products.
Fourth edition of Cheese in Bra. Fourth Slow Food Award in Naples in conjunction with the Slow Food International Congress, involving delegates from over 50 countries. Subjects discussed include the defense of biodiversity and education. Carlo Petrini presents the idea for a world meeting of food producers.
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| 2004 |
In January the work group is set up to organize the first World Meeting of Food Communities —Terra Madre.
In February the FAO officially recognizes Slow Food as a non-profit organization and establishes a collaboration agreement.
In April the renovated Agenzia di Pollenzo is opened to the public for a week. Thousands of people visit the complex which houses the first University of Gastronomic Sciences. The non-profit Slow Food Foundation is officially constituted, thanks to the support of the Tuscany Regional Authority, which becomes a member.
In June Genoa hosts the first edition of Slow Fish, a fair dedicated to sustainable fishing and seafood.
At Yufuin, in Japan, founding congress of Slow Food Japan, office opened in Sendai. In August the Italian Ministry of Universities and Scientific Research officially recognizes the University of Gastronomic Sciences, which opens its doors to the first 75 students at the start of October.
At the end of October the fifth Salone del Gusto held at the Lingotto Exhibition Centre in Turin with over 140,000 visitors. In conjunction, first edition of "Terra Madre, World Meeting of Food Communities" held at the Palazzo del Lavoro, attracting about 5,000 delegates from all over the world.
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| 2005 |
in May Slow Food's Italian Presidia hold their Estates General meeting in Sicily. Over four hundred producers, university researchers, managers from institutions around the country and the Ministries of Health and Agriculture, together with technical experts from the Sicilian Regional Ministry of Agriculture, meet to launch a significant campaign to safeguard outstanding artisan products at risk of disappearing.
In July a meeting is held in Machakos, Kenya, of a working group of representatives from Kenyan food communities, major NGOs and a delegation from the ministry for local culture, who were present at Terra Madre in 2004, with assistant minister Alicen Chelaite attending. In September, the fifth edition of Cheese in Bra takes place, with a major focus on goats" cheeses.
In October the Brasilian convivum of Minas Gerais organises the Salao das Comunidades do Alimento, the first large-scale event organised by Slow Food in Brazil dedicated to traditional foods, with the participation of Brazilian Presidia and food communities.
In November, Slow Fish returns to Genova with over 50 Terra Madre communities connected to the world of fishing from 21 countries.
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| 2006 |
Slow Food celebrates its 20th birthday at the sixth Slow Food Italia National Congress in Sanremo in June. Here a new concept is transmitted to delegates, one that takes a holistic approach to the world of food taken as a combination of people, environments and societies.
Slow Food USA sets up the Terra Madre Relief Fund to help Louisiana food communities effected by hurricane Katrina in the summer of 2005.
The Yokohama Slow Food Fair (a small Japanese Salone del Gusto) is held for the third time and obtains national recognition thanks to the organisational support of Slow Food Japan.
The second edition of Taste of Slow in Victoria, Australia, is a great success: from August 28 to September 10, two weeks of debates, dinners and tastings with producers, experts and local and international chefs.
At the end of October the sixth edition of the Salone del Gusto is held at the Lingotto, visited by a record 172 000 people. The guiding theme of the event is Good, Clean and Fair. In the adjoining Oval building 6000 farmers, 1000 chefs and 400 academics take part in the second Terra Madre; for the first time the world of production meets culinary savoir faire and academic science.
In December Slow Food UK"s national office opens in Ludlow.
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