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The Slow Food Presidia
For the first time an entire Pavilion (3) of the Salone del Gusto will be dedicated to the Presidia and the Slow Food Foundation for Biodiversity. The nearly 300 Presidia will be divided into five groups - one for each continent.
As always, behind the stands you will find the producers who have come from the four corners of the globe to tell you their stories and introduce their products. You can meet them, chat with them and taste and purchase their cheeses, cured meats, rice, breads, sweets, fish, coffee, vanilla, cacao, tropical fruit, vegetables and so on … For five days you will have a veritable map of the world’s biodiversity at your fingertips.
Here are just a few examples, then you can have fun in Turin discovering the rest for yourselves.
From Africa … Imraguen women with the botargo of Banc d’Argueil (Mauritania) and the Madagascan producers of red rice and vanilla.
From Latin America … nearly 30 Presidia. The Andean farmers of Perù will bring chips made from their colorful potatoes and chuño blanco
(an ancient preparation obtained by freezing the potatoes and then drying them in the open air). Venezuelan producers will present the newborn Presidium of Barlovento cacao, while Brazil will bring us its lesser known varieties of fruit (fresh and dried): umbù, barù and the Montenegrin mandarin orange.
From North America … a native Indian tribe from Minnesota will present wild rice harvested by canoe and then smoked.
From Asia … the Sarikey pepper harvesters will be joining us, along with the monks from the Tibetan plateau with their yak cheese.
From Europe … producers from all latitudes and longitudes. Norwegians with stockfish, Cypriots with tsamarella (cured goat’s meat), Portuguese with queso de Serpa (a pecorino cheese made with cardoon rennet), Rumanians with Brânza de burduf cheese (wrapped in pine bark). Plus, of course the largest delegation of all– the Italians.
Italy, divided by regions, will present 200 Presidia (some of which ever present at the Salone, such as bottarga di Orbetello and Graukase), which have decided to make a donation to enable less fortunate food communities to attend Terra Madre.
Then there will be the countless novelties: from Castelmagno from mountain pastures to papaccella from Naples, from white Monreale plums to the white cow of Modena.
At the center of the pavilion an important area will be dedicated to the Slow Food Foundation for Biodiversity, where you can find out about international projects (operational and in the pipeline) as you sip coffee made from beans native to the Huehuetenango highlands (over 1500 m) in Guatemala and prepared for you by inmates from the ‘Lorusso and Cutugno’ halfway house at Le Vallette in Turin.
The Biodiversity Bookshop
A new feature for the Salone 2006! A bookshop with the most important titles from the international publishing scene on such topics as biodiversity, sustainable agriculture, gastronomy, fair trade, responsible tourism, globalization and so on.
In collaboration with the Turin International Book Fair and the city’s bookshops. |
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