December 10th is Terra Madre Day
Slow Food International has declared December 10th to be
Terra Madre Day.
*Visit the official Slow Food Terra Madre Day website complete with press kit and a guide to organizing a TM day event.
“Every convivium, every food community and all people supportive of Terra Madre and Slow Food ideals are invited to organize an event, however small or symbolic, in their local area.”
Terra Madre is a worldwide network that gives voice to small-scale farmers and food producers and brings them together with cooks, academics and youth to discuss how to improve the food system collaboratively. Meetings are held at the global, regional and local level and resulting projects are promoting knowledge and exchange. Learn more about the Terra Madre network.
Slow Food Calgary will mark the occasion by promoting Alberta Locavore Challenge Eat at Home Dinners. The idea is simple: We ask that people in our community – yes you – host a dinner on December 10th built from locally grown and raised foods. Aside from the local food proviso and, we hope, a convivial spirit, these dinners may adopt whatever character or form the organizers and guests desire – big, small, formal, casual, potluck, multi-course, one big pot…let creativity reign!
Invite a Terra Madre delegate to your dinner! Several Alberta Terra Madre delegates have volunteered to attend and speak at Terra Madre Day Locavore Challenge Dinners about their experiences at the most recent Terra Madre gathering of farmers, cooks and food artisans. If you are interested please contact: info@slowfoodcalgary.ca
To further the Terra Madre network, Slow Food Calgary is also asking that Locavore Challenge Eat at Home Dinner organizers collect donations, one hundred percent of which will be submitted to a Terra Madre fund to send an Albertan youth delegate to the biennial Terra Madre gathering in Torino, Italy in 2010.
*Donation cheques should be written to Slow Food Calgary with “Terra Madre Day funds” clearly marked on the cheque. We would also LOVE you to send us a copy of the menu you prepared for the evening, including the names of the local products sourced and for the meal. Cheques should be mailed to Slow Food Calgary, P.O. Box 70043 Bowness RPO, Calgary, T3B 5K3