Slow Food, the podcast

Slow Food Europe is back with a second episode on the EU Farm to Fork Strategy, which was proposed by the EU Commission last year to accelerate the transition towards sustainable food systems in Europe. Last month, the EU Parliament voted in favor of this strategy despite repeated lobbying attacks from the agrifood industry. Slow Food warmly welcomed this vote, and took the opportunity to gather t...

Welcome to a new episode of SFYNers around the globe! In this series we are going to meet different activists of our network. We are going to get to know more about who they are, what they do in their daily lives and how they are involved with the Slow Food Youth Network. We have a similar set of questions for all the SFYNers but in additions to those we will see of course where the conversation b...

Welcome to a new episode of SFYNers around the globe! In this series we are going to meet different activists of our network. We are going to get to know more about who they are, what they do in their daily lives and how they are involved with the Slow Food Youth Network. We have a similar set of questions for all the SFYNers but in additions to those we will see of course where the conversation b...

Welcome to a new episode of SFYNers around the globe! In this series we are going to meet different activists of our network. We are going to get to know more about who they are, what they do in their daily lives and how they are involved with the Slow Food Youth Network. We have a similar set of questions for all the SFYNers but in additions to those we will see of course where the conversation b...

Welcome to a new episode of SFYNers around the globe! In this series we are going to meet different activists of our network. We are going to get to know more about who they are, what they do in their daily lives and how they are involved with the Slow Food Youth Network. We have a similar set of questions for all the SFYNers but in additions to those we will see of course where the conversation b...

Welcome to a new episode of SFYNers around the globe! In this series we are going to meet different activists of our network. We are going to get to know more about who they are, what they do in their daily lives and how they are involved with the Slow Food Youth Network. We have a similar set of questions for all the SFYNers but in additions to those we will see of course where the conversation b...

Welcome to the second episode of SFYNers around the globe! In this series we are going to meet different activists of our network. We are going to get to know more about who they are, what they do in their daily lives and how they are involved with the Slow Food Youth Network. We have a similar set of questions for all the SFYNers but in additions to those we will see of course where the conversat...

Today we are kicking off a new series called SFYNers around the globe! In this series we are going to meet different activists of our network. We are going to get to know more about who they are, what they do in their daily lives and how they are involved with the Slow Food Youth Network. We have a similar set of questions for all the SFYNers but in additions to those we will see of course where t...

The goal of this episode is to broaden our understanding of a regenerative food system within the context of an indigenous community, and to shed light on the age-old agricultural practices that keep our communities strong. We learn about the multi-faceted challenges indigenous communities face, in the past, present, and future, and the solutions and growth that agriculture can provide. Amidst the...

This year the SFYN podcast is hosting a new series all dedicated to the European policy in terms of food and agriculture. The series will be conducted by Slow Food Europe, which is in charge of involving Slow Food in the political debate on the European level. The special host of this series is Alice Poiron, communication officer at Slow Food Europe. The topics touched will be in line with the mos...

This is the last episode dedicated to the Slow Food event Terra Madre and we are exploring our final ecosystem: the urban lands. Our question for today is: what is the role of gastronomy in promoting local biodiversity? The special host of this episode is Ana Garcia Castellanos, who is working as a chef in a local food restaurant in Minnesota. She is from Guatemala and she is a digital activist fo...

Today we will share with you this super nice Food Talk by Sandor Ellix Katz. Sandor is literally the guru of fermentation. He is from Tennessee, USA and he runs courses on fermentation across the world. He has participated in Terra Madre since its first edition and has helped create an international interest for these topics. The New York Times has called him “one of the few rock stars of the Amer...

In the framework of the Slow Food event Terra Madre, today we are exploring another ecosystem: the water lands. We will particularly focus on the role and the rights of women in fishing in different territories. In this podcast episode you will be accompanied by Lapo Degli Innocenti.  Lapo is a researcher on International Law and Sustainable Development. Through his dissertation – A Rhapsody in Bl...

In the framework of the Slow Food event Terra Madre, today we are exploring the ecosystems shaped by agroecology. You are going to get deeper into the topic of sustainable agriculture, food sovereignty, school gardens, cultural identity and much more. Mélanie Antin is the podcast host for today. She is a young activist of Slow Food France, she has a background in anthropology and she is a drama te...

Today we will listen to another very inspiring Food Talk: the one of Alice Waters. Alice Waters is the vice president of Slow Food International, she is a chef and author, activist for food education and owner of the restaurant Chez Panisse in Berkeley, California. In 1996 she created the Edible Schoolyard Project, which in over 20 years has contributed to the spread of urban gardening and the val...

Today we are going to listen to the Food Talk of Miguel Altieri, one of the fathers of agroecology. He will tell us how the current pandemic is linked to our food systems and how agroecology can be a tool to achieve better health in agriculture, ecology and humans.   Host & production: Valentina Gritti Music & editing: Leonardo Prieto Dorantes   Watch the video of the Food Talk on the Terra Madre...

This is the third episode dedicated to the On My Plate Challenge of Slow Food: what is fair food? We will explore its meanings with three interviewees, from Rome, Paris and New York.    The three special guests of today are:   Diletta Bellotti is a young human rights advocate and founder of the “pomodori rosso sangue” movement (bloody red tomatoes). She is actively campaigning against organized cr...

This is the second episode dedicated to the On My Plate Challenge of Slow Food: what is clean food? We will explore its meanings with three interviewees, from Cuba, Italy and Burkina Faso.    The three special guests of today are:   - Melissa Relova Posada: she is a 20 years old girl from Cuba and I'm. She is part of the Slow Food community Finca Vista Hermosa which is her family project. She is n...

Food is a communal journey, but it’s more than just feeding our bodies: it feeds our soul. If a food isn’t good, if it’s not fruit of a communal journey, then our soul suffers and dies. Satish Kumar discusses his idea of food and its value, which must be understood from many points of view, including the spiritual satisfaction we derive from it. Satish Kumar is an Indian British activist and speak...

This is the first episode dedicated to the On My Plate Challenge of Slow Food: what is good food? We will explore its meanings with three interviewees, from South Africa, Azerbaijan and Colombia.    The three special guests of today are: - Arnold Tanzer: he is the head of the Slow Food Cooks' Alliance in South Africa. The Slow Food cooks’s alliance is a network of cooks defending food biodiversity...

In this episode we want to take you to the arid lands, in particular we will talk about some regenerative preservation practices carried out by our super cool guests in different parts of the world. From New Mexico to Egypt, from Australia to Colorado and Spain… We will find out a lot about soil and food preservation practices. Yes, we will talk about permaculture and… about fermentation! Bacteria...

What is the European Union doing to preserve biodiversity? Is it a tendency worldwide?  In this special episode we will dig into three levels:  - Marta Messa, director of Slow Food Europe , will tell us how the movement is participating to the debate on biodiversity on an institutional level; - Stefan Leiner, head of the biodiversity unit at the DG for environment at the EU commission, will explai...

When we think of the mountains, we may make the mistake of simply thinking of them as being “up there”, without considering the layers of diversity they hold at different altitudes, as Pía León and Malena Martínez of Peru explain.  Peru is a land of extraordinary biodiversity at wildly different altitudes. From 3500 to 4000 meters we find tubers, potatoes, olluco, leaves and roots. Corn proliferat...

Cuando pensamos en las montañas, podemos cometer el error de pensar simplemente en ellas como si estuvieran "allá arriba", sin tener en cuenta las capas de diversidad que albergan a diferentes alturas, como explican Pía León y Malena Martínez del Perú.  El Perú es una tierra de extraordinaria biodiversidad a altitudes muy diferentes. Desde los 3500 a los 4000 metros encontramos tubérculos, papas,...

In the episodes of the previous month we decided to learn more about the forest ecosystem and in particular forest people and land rights. This month instead we want to take you to the highlands. But instead of taking it very broad, we have decided to focus on one specialty that grows in the highlands… I am talking about coffee! Yes, the episode of today is entirely dedicated to coffee.  And we al...