Slow food

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Slow food
Slow Food logo
purpose Sustainability , enjoyment
Chair: Carlo Petrini
Establishment date: 1986
Number of members: 57,000
Seat : Bra , Italy
Website: slowfood.com

Slow Food ( Engl. Slow , slow 'and food , eating') was marked by the same organization as the term for delicious, confident and regional food and refers to a counter-movement to uniform and globalized fast food . The movement, originally from Italy , tries to preserve the regional cuisine with local vegetable and animal products and their local production .
In 2006, the founder and international chairman Carlo Petrini defined the basic terms of the “new gastronomy” as a benchmark: Buono, pulito e giusto- good, clean and fair. If one element is missing, according to Petrini, it is not slow food.

According to the journalist Matthias Horx , “Slow Food” is one of 18 trends that will influence tomorrow's life in the field of nutrition. In this context, Slow Food stands for products with an authentic character (regional, seasonal) that are produced and enjoyed in a traditional or original way. Food that is grown, produced, sold or consumed according to Slow Food criteria should strengthen regional economic cycles and bind people back to their region with eyes, ears, mouth and hands.

Demonstration We're sick of it! , 2013

organization

Slow Food logo at a restaurant on Santorini
Carlo Petrini (l.), Ursula Hudson (r.); Interview on January 17th, 2014 in Berlin during the Schnippeldisko

Slow Food has had the term Slow Food internationally protected as a word and image trademark . The organization was founded in July 1986 by Carlo Petrini from the Piedmontese Bra and his friends of Barolo at Castle Fontanafredda in the middle of the vineyards of Barolo as "Arcigola". The movement received an additional boost from the opening of a McDonald’s branch in 1986 on the Piazza Navona in Rome, which is surrounded by ancient and baroque buildings . Then, in addition to Petrini, editors of the daily newspaper Il Manifesto organized a public protest dinner with traditional Italian dishes at the Spanish Steps in Rome. On December 9, 1989, Arcigola became Slow Food at a meeting of supporters from all over the world at the Paris Comedy Opera . Since then, Slow Food has become an international association with almost 80,000 members in around 150 countries on all continents - with 75% of the members in Europe and even almost 92% including North America. The Slow Food logo is the Roman snail as a symbol of slowness.

A programmatic declaration explains the movement's goals:

  • The focus is on enjoyment because everyone has a right to it.
  • Quality takes time.
  • The ecological, regional, sensual and aesthetic quality is a prerequisite for enjoyment.
  • Taste is not a matter of taste , but a historical, cultural, individual, social and economic dimensions, are arguing about the well intended .

In addition, the association sees itself as a lobby for taste, but also for regionally adapted and ecological cultivation, for the preservation of biodiversity and culinary cultures .

A national association was founded in Germany in 1992. Slow Food Deutschland eV now has over 13,500 members in around 85 local groups, the convivia . The association is the sponsor of the demonstration We're fed up! . Ursula Hudson headed the association from 2011 until her death in 2020. In his book, Burchard Bösche describes the founding of Slow Food in Hamburg in 1996.

Slow Food Youth snippet disco, 2014

Slow Food Youth Network, the Slow Food youth movement, is also active in Germany. Young cooks, farmers, artists, food artisans, students and those interested in the goals of Slow Food - through snippet disco, eat-ins, cooking activities, workshops and much more.

Slow Food Fair in Stuttgart 2007

Slow Food is the organizer of important trade fairs in the food sector, such as Cheese in Bra and Salone del Gusto in Turin , which take place every two years.In 2004 the Terra Madre meeting took place for the first time parallel to Salone del Gusto , at which 4,600 farmers from all over the world came together under the patronage of Prince Charles . The second meeting took place in 2006 and was expanded to include top chefs and scientists. In 2012, the previously independent Salone del Gusto, the culinary fair and the Terra Madre were merged and have since taken place at the same time in the halls of the Lingotto exhibition center .

Since 2007, Slow Food Germany has been organizing the German Slow Food trade fair, the Market of Good Taste, which takes place every spring in Stuttgart . Slow Food Germany is also present at the important trade fairs for gastronomy, retail and producers, e.g. B. the BIOFACH active.

The world's first university of gastronomic sciences was founded by Slow Food in Bra (Piedmont) . The following courses are offered today:

  • three-year course in gastronomic sciences,
  • Two-year postgraduate course in New Gastronomy Entrepreneurship and Sustainable Management of Gastronomic Inventories,
  • four one-year Master's post lauream in Food Culture and Communications (Food, Place and Identity, Human Ecology and Sustainability, High-Quality Products, Representation, Meaning and Media)
  • Higher technical education with various courses to prepare the jobs with the highest demand in the food sector (baker, pizza maker, beer brewer, pig butcher, cheese refiner and service manager in the restaurant),
  • Course in high home cooking intended for a passionate audience.

The goals of the movement at the international level include, above all, the preservation of biological and cultural diversity in the food sector, the promotion of artisanal and environmentally friendly food production, the promotion of taste and food education and the support of direct contact and solidarity between producers, consumers (co-producers ), Traders, chefs, scientists and other actors in the food world. An important project is the Slow Food Ark of Taste , an international project for the preservation of regional food specialties and projects for the preservation of regional fruit , vegetables , grains and livestock . But it is also about the preservation, revival and implementation of traditional processing methods.

The educational work on the topics is carried out intensively

Slow Food also stands for political lobbying :

Ark of Taste

With the Ark of Taste, the organization Slow Food has compiled a list of endangered foods, cultivated plant varieties and livestock breeds that are endangered in the face of a globalized food economy and one-sided breeding selection based on yield levels and marketability and cost pressure in processing. With these foods and the corresponding types of plants and animal breeds, a piece of food culture and traditional knowledge about the production of these foods would also come to an end. In many cases, the Ark's passengers represent the local and traditional food culture and agriculture of a region. The arch manifesto defines who or what is considered to be a passenger on the ark. The various groups on site decide for themselves what is included in the ark. The inclusion in the Ark of Taste helps the producers of such foods with the marketing and creates a certain public, which benefits its continuance.

The passengers on the Ark meet the following criteria:

  • Are threatened in their existence
  • Unique taste quality
  • Historical meaning
  • Identity-creating character for a region
  • Support sustainable development of a region
  • Animals come from animal welfare
  • Free from genetic modification
  • Products are available for purchase

Sister projects

Cittaslow

The Cittàslow Association has existed since 1999 . It is the extension of the slow food philosophy to include urban quality of life features. This movement emerged from Slow Food and was also founded in Bra. It was adopted as an idea by several Italian small towns and implemented programmatically and now also includes cities in Germany, a total of 30 countries.

An extension of Slow Food is Slow Kids or Youth Cooks . From 2008 to 2011, the free information portal dealt with all topics related to taste education, edible school gardens, healthy youth nutrition, cooking and children, and promoted dialogue between parents, schools, authorities, cooks, farmers and the food trade. The portal was then taken over by slowfood.de in the Children and Young People section .

Slow Wine

The Wine Guide "Slow Wine" (English. Slow - slow; wine - wine) uses the terminology of Slow Food as an expression for delicious, confident and regional drinks and shows an alternative culture to the trend of the global wine world. The declared aim of the movement's team of authors is to promote and maintain wineries whose concepts are shaped by sustainability, ecology and territorial authenticity of Italian wines . The vinification of wines from old, autochthonous grape varieties is particularly appreciated. The award with the Roman snail, the Slow Food logo, explicitly includes not only the producers of the great wines, the “Grandi Vini”, but also the makers of the everyday wines , the “Vini Quotidiani” of the respective wine-growing regions .

The Slow Wine wine guide, which first appeared in German in 2013, assesses the sustainability of the individual wineries in terms of fertilization, integrated pest management, herbicides, yeasts and grape varieties. Existing certifications are incorporated. The organization uses 200 employees to evaluate these criteria and the 23,000 wines from 1,909 wineries. In the book, the wineries are sorted alphabetically within their region by location. Each page of the two-column work describes two producers. The winery guide has around 1,000 pages and includes detailed maps and information on the 20 regions. The “paperback” is reprinted every year.

literature

Movies

  • Slow Food Story - The story of a revolution through enjoyment. Documentary, Italy, 2013, 74 min., Script and director: Stefano Sardo, production: Indigo Film, Tico Film, cinema release in Germany: October 10, 2013 by Pandastorm Pictures, film page .
  • Revolution at the kitchen table. Slow Food - the new eating culture. TV report, Germany, 2012, 28:40 min., Script and director: Enrico Demurray , production: wildebilder, ZDF , editing: ZDF.reportage , first broadcast: October 7, 2012 on ZDF, summary from ZDF, ( memento from 12 April 2013 in the web archive archive.today ).
  • Slow food. A research trip back to enjoyment. Television reportage, Germany, 2010, 28 Min, written and directed. Amélie-Marie Besirsky, Summary of ARD .
  • Eating with pleasure: the slow food movement. Documentary, Austria, 2007, 43 min., Book: Gabriella Pignatelli and Rike Fochler, directors: Carlo Buralli, production: Film Australia, CM Film Productions, ORF , German-language first broadcast: March 16, 2007 on ORF2 , summary by 3sat, ( Memento of April 12, 2013 in the web archive archive.today ).
  • Slow Food - Enjoy with brains. Documentary, Germany, 2005, 59:10 Min, written and directed. Hannelore Fisgus and Marianne Riermeier, production: Bayerisches Fernsehen , Summary of ARD .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Register of Interest Representatives - Search the register. Retrieved May 8, 2020 .
  2. ↑ Notes on trademark, association and copyright law. In: slowfood.de , accessed on February 17, 2017.
  3. ↑ How Slow Food came about. ( Memento from April 13, 2011 in the Internet Archive ) In: Slow Food Germany
  4. ↑ Ursula Heinzelmann: “Unrestrained consumption must stop.” In: FAS , November 7, 2010, interview with Petrini.
  5. ↑ Almanach 2013, p. 130 ( Memento of the original dated February 26, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. In: slowfood.com @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.slowfood.com
  6. ↑ slowfood.de
  7. ↑ Wir-haben-es-satt.de: The sponsors of the demo “We're fed up with it!” . Accessed on 23 August 2016 .
  8. ↑ Press release: Slow Food Deutschland eV elects the association's board. In: slowfood.de , June 28, 2014 (PDF). Michael Maaser, obituary for Ursula Hudson, https://www.kulinaristik.eu/
  9. ^ Burchard Bösche : The festival is a meal - the food is a festival , Norderstedt 2018, pp. 141–144, Books on Demand, ISBN 978-3-7460-7964-6
  10. ↑ Slow Food Youth Germany.
  11. ↑ Schnippeldisko. In: slowfoodyouth.de
  12. ↑ Eat-In. In: slowfoodyouth.de
  13. ^ Salone del Gusto and Terra Madre. (English) Turin Fair by Slow Food and Terra Madre.
  14. ↑ Università di Scienze Gastronomiche. (Italian, English)
  15. ↑ The Archemanifest. (PDF; 3 pp., 54 kB)
  16. ↑ Ark passengers: "what you want to save food," ( Memento of 21 April 2013, Internet Archive ) In: slowfood.de
  17. ↑ Welcome to Cittaslow International | Cittaslow International. Retrieved July 11, 2020 .
  18. ↑ Slow Kids - Youth cooks campaign. ( Memento from April 23, 2008 in the Internet Archive ) In: slowkids.de , 2008
  19. ↑ Children and adolescents. In: slowfood.de , accessed on July 18, 2015.
  20. ↑ Slow Wine 2013. Italy's best wines and winemakers. In: weinrouten.de , book review.
  21. ↑ Jürgen Röder: Italy's best winemakers and wines. Snail and everyday wines. In: Handelsblatt of March 23, 2013.
  22. ↑ Slow Food Editore team of authors: Slow Wine 2013. Gräfe und Unzer , third year, 2013, 960 pages, ISBN 978-3-8338-3315-1 .
  23. ↑ Jürgen Röder: The philosophy of Slow Wine. In: Handelsblatt of March 23, 2013.