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Serious Reads: Terra Madre, by Carlo Petrini

Terra Madre: Forging a New Global Network of Sustainable Food Communities, by Carlo Petrini, brings the Terra Madre conference to life. The conference will occur for the fourth time in October 2010, in Torino, Italy—the home of the Slow Food movement. The aim of Terra Madre is to unite small-scalle farmers and food activists from across the world to explore methods of local agriculture, share traditional technique, and preserve a food culture that is quickly being buried in an age of pre-packaged and genetically modified foodstuffs.

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2 Comments | Posted by Leah Douglas, July 31, 2010 at 1:00 PM
Tagged: book reviews, Carlo Petrini, Serious Reads, Slow Foods, Terra Madre

Eavesdrop On Cutting-Edge Chefs at Diálogos de Cocina

Today in the LA Times, Regina Schrambling recommends you eavesdrop on cutting-edge chefs at Diálogos de Cocina next Monday and Tuesday: The forum itself — Kitchen Dialogues, in English — is ambitious enough, with one entire afternoon devoted to "other ways" of seeing, thinking, understanding and cooking. The chefs ramrodding it are the Ferran Adriàs of San Sebastián, which itself is the mecca of the food world right now because of its concentration of wildly adventurous, highly praised kitchens: Pedro Subijana of Akelare, Andoni Luis Aduriz of Mugaritz, Juan Mari Arzak of Restaurante Arzak and Martín Berasategui, whose restaurant bears his name. And the speakers they have lined up cover the food spectrum, from Carlo Petrini, the founder of Slow...

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Post a Comment | Posted by Lia Bulaong, March 7, 2007 at 2:18 PM
Tagged: Carlo Petrini, conferences, Davide Cassi, Diálogos de Cocina, Megnut, Regina Schrambling, San Sebastián