Salone Internazionale del Gusto e Terra Madre

The International taste exhibition – organized by Slow Food, Piedmont region and city of Torino – is now in its seventh edition, and is a true food market, a meeting place for trading and business, together with massive doses of gastronomic delights and ethical and social conscience. But it is also a true market model which highlights the positive impact of good, wholesome and fair food practices which are at the heart of the Slow Food philosophy.

The above event will coincide with the third edition of Terra Madre, which is an international meeting of the food community organized by Ministry of Agricultural and Forestry policies, Italian development cooperation – Foreign affairs ministry, Piedmont Region, The City of Torino and Slow Food in collaboration with Coldiretti Piemonte and the CRT Foundation.

The Terra Madre event unites and compares producers and operators in the world agricultural-food sector, thereby providing an opportunity to discuss some of the leading food production issues. They represent a different and more complex manner of approaching quality food: with an eye to environmental preservation, global equilibrium, and the organoleptic aspect of the products, the dignity of the workers involved, and the health of the consumers.

This year the Terra Madre network will be further enhanced thanks to the movement of young people committed to the preservation and defence of food and food culture the Youth Food Movement, which was launched during the 5th International Slow Food Congress. The Youth Food Movement was conceived by a group of students of the Gastronomic science University and from Slow Food Usa and consists of a group of American students, young producers, chefs and activists in the sector. The aim being that of involving by the end of October over 1000 youth people from all over the world, that will come together with food communities from the five continents, joining forces with 5000 farm workers, animal breeders, fishermen, craftsmen and food transformation operators, 1000 chefs and 400 representatives of the academic sphere, together forming the links in a chain that has become increasingly important in recent years: the Terra Madre network.
So that the Terra Madre 2008 event will prove an opportunity to further extend the network to future world leaders in the world of food production. The participation of a delegation of young people that represent the Youth Food Movement will ensure that all the know-how linked to the agricultural sphere, and that of food production will be handed down to new generations, and will increasingly be made up of committed and active co-producers.

Info: www.slowfood.it; www.terramadre2008.org