Taste of Place

CALLING ALL FARMERS, FISHERS, RANCHERS, CHEFS, AND CONSUMERS WHO VALUE GOOD, CLEAN, AND FAIR FOOD: Join Slow Food Seacoast and friends at The Press Room on March 10 for Terra Madre “Taste of Place”: A Slow Food Seacoast Social.

DATE: Thursday, March 10, 2011

TIME: 5–7:45 pm

PLACE: UPSTAIRS at The Press Room, 77 Daniel Street, Portsmouth, NH

John Forti, Jean Jennings, and Evan Mallett in Italy (Photo: Jean Jennings)

Come celebrate our shared roots with great local food and fun! Learn more about Terra Madre, known as the “farmers’ United Nations”, from local delegates who represented the Seacoast region at the Terra Madre conference in October 2010: John Forti of Slow Food Seacoast, Jean Jennings of Meadow’s Mirth, and Evan Mallett of Black Trumpet Bistro. These Seacoast representatives joined more than 5,000 delegates from 150 countries at the Olympic Stadium in Turin, Italy, to discuss how to create new economies and artisanal products around local agriculture, horticulture, and fisheries.

During the Taste of Place social, the local delegates will share the hope that they saw at Terra Madre in models of sustainable local practices in Italy and around the world:

Evan Mallett will talk about being cleaner and greener, balancing aquaculture and wild fish stocks, and encouraging children to eat local and fresh ingredients in their school lunches.
Jean Jennings will discuss the cost of good food and accessibility issues. (She also is organizing some local musicians to entertain us!).
John Forti will talk about inspired land use, the Salone del Gusto (the world’s largest artisanal food marketplace), the Renewing America’s Food Traditions (RAFT) Alliance (preserving at-risk heirloom produce and heritage-breed foods), and creating new traditions that will lead us to a better future.

Beautiful produce in Eataly! (Photo: Jean Jennings)

In addition, Slow Food Seacoast will be distributing free seeds of native heirloom fruits and vegetables featured in the RAFT Alliance to anyone who is willing to grow, eat, and save seeds of these varieties to preserve them for the future, because the best way to restore at-risk varieties is to grow and eat them!

Admission to Terra Madre “Taste of Place”: A Slow Food Seacoast Social is free. Black Trumpet Bistro will provide sumptuous internationally flavored appetizers made with local ingredients. Please patronize the cash bar to thank The Press Room for hosting this event.

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Slow Food is an idea, a way of living, and a way of eating. It is a global grassroots movement with thousands of members around the world that links the pleasure of food with a commitment to community and the environment. Slow Food seeks to

Slow Food founder Carlos Petrini addresses the audience at Terra Madre 2010.

Slow Food founder Carlos Petrini at Terra Madre 2010 (Photo: John Forti)

Create dramatic and lasting change in the food system;
Reconnect with the people, traditions, plants, animals, fertile soils, and waters that produce our food; and
Inspire a transformation in food policy, production practices, and market forces so that they ensure equity, sustainability, and pleasure in the food we eat.

Your local chapter, Slow Food Seacoast, works to support these goals while fostering an appreciation of our unique regional and seasonal food systems and an understanding of how native foods, heirloom-variety crops, heritage-breed animals, and artisanal practices have sustained our region through history. Visit the our website or Facebook page to learn how you can become a part of it!