Slow Food in London

Not sure where to put this..but since it deals with food. 

My DH and I have been members of Slow Food USA for over a year.  It's a brilliant organization to support local and heritage foods.  With the help of Slow Food and similar organizations the native american turkeys are on their way to being saved.  They were started in Italy and really just do great things.  I know that the meetings in London have already started but I thought I would post this in case anyone was interested.

We have just renewed our membership and will be a part of the UK chapter of Slow Food. I will pass on events as I hear of them.

Slow Food London

London Sustainability Weeks

London, June 5-19 2004


A cleaner, greener, healthier, tastier....and slower London.
Since the Earth Summit in Rio de Janeiro in 1992, when more than 150 countries met, the importance of the environment as our most significant, shared resource, has been increasingly recognised. Two issues have increasingly captured popular interest - biodiversity and local food. This year, London (held to coincide with World Environment Day) encourage Londoners to explore the cleaner, greener, healthier and tastier, diversity
of our city in a series of more than 200 events taking place in and around the capital. The events range from local action and community projects and include several events organised by Slow Food London and London Farmers' Markets (London Honey Taste Workshop, Market Day Menus, Visit to Colchester Oyster Beds.... and the 5th Anniversary of the Islington Green Farmers' Market, London's first farmers' market).

For general information: www.londonsustainabilityweeks.org
 
Happy eating to everyone!

This is fantastic, thanks for posting!  I was wondering if there was a slow food movement over here and what it was called.

Yeah a fellow foodie! 

Tholian you can find updates on www.slowfood.com as well.

I know there are a few others on here that like this type of stuff so like I said as soon as I get there and get my newsletters I will post back here. 

* vnicepeeps  is plotting a trip to Cheddar for some real traditionally made non-commerical rennet cheese

Here's a list of slow food cheeses in England.   
 
Name Tipology  Country State/Region
 
  Artisan Somerset Cheddar   Cheeses United Kingdom 
 
  Cheshire   Cheeses United Kingdom 
 
  Dorset Blue Vinny   Cheeses United Kingdom 
 
  Double-Curd Lancashire   Cheeses United Kingdom 
 
  Dunlop   Cheeses United Kingdom 
 
 
 
 

Also for those in Ireland:

"Ireland - 10/06/2004

 
A Culinary Nod to a Literary Great

 
This year, Dubliners will come out in numbers to celebrate their most famous author, James Joyce, at the 100th anniversary of the Bloomsday Festival. The annual festival takes place outside the James Joyce Centre, and includes a ‘Guinness Bloomsday Breakfast’, following Bloom’s example from Ulysses, it involves dining on the inner organs of beasts and fowls, washed down with a ‘foaming ebon ale.’ There is also street theatre, music, song and dramatic readings at the festival.

Slow Food Dublin will be at the event on June 16, offering proper Edwardian fare for a Bloom’s Lunch of gorgonzola sandwiches, mustard and clean white bread, and a glass of burgundy. The Slow Food stand will be outside the James Joyce Centre, from 11am to 3pm. For more information on the festival go to http://www.rejoycedublin2004.com/events/detail.asp?ID=7. For information on Slow Food’s Stand, email dublin@slowfoodireland.com"

Oh, cool!

My sweetie is a foodie too.  We will have fun with all this. 

I went past Cheddar a few weeks ago, couldn't stop, and regretted it a great deal.  Ah well.  I plan to be in the UK or elsewhere in Europe for at the very least, the next ten years....

VNP, there's a local chapter of Slow Food in Devon I believe...!