Local food – it’s not simply a question of miles

The other day the Cambridge News carried a piece headed: ‘The 30-mile diet: eating local, eating green’.  One of the latest of a number of similar events that have taken place around the country in recent times. Whilst I admire such initiatives I trouble a little that we should not lose sight of the true [...]

Countdown to Terra Madre Day on 10 December

The organisation of Slow Food, to those who have delved into the subject, may appear difficult to comprehend at times with its local convivia or groups, but in recent years it is the equally mysterious Terra Madre (which translates as ‘Mother Earth’) which has become a driving force behind the Slow Food movement. Terra Madre [...]

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