December 10th is Terra Madre Day…How will you celebrate?
Local food is our future, and celebrating these foods and their producers – in daily life and through special events – is the best way to protect them.
This is the spirit in which the global Slow Food network approaches Terra Madre Day on December 10 each year – a day to promote food that is good, clean and fair and to acknowledge the importance of the regions, cultures and communities working to protect and promote such food.
Everyone is invited – Slow Food convivia, the Terra Madre network and supporting organizations and friends – to celebrate with an event in your community. If you can, please also use this day to raise support for Slow Food’s biggest project in 2011, A Thousand Gardens in Africa .
Last year Terra Madre Day traveled across 120 countries, from a wild food festival in the green forests of Java, Indonesia to traditional cooking workshops in Palestinian villages, to a solar-cooker banquet in central Costa Rica and an Eat-In at Kings Cross, London. But the best place to be on December 10 will be with your own community, participating in an event as simple or complex, as big or small as you wish.
To help cook up your own fun celebration, visit the Terra Madre Day website and download the Information for Organizers guide. Remember to check the online Organizers’ Kit where you will find the logo and other graphics that you can use in your local promotions. Register your event on the Slow Food International website prior to November 10 and we will send you a Terra Madre Day flag.
