Quality festivals and food and wine, the best of Italy’s flavours

Journey to the tastiest Italy from 30 March to 2 April at the Agri and Slow Travel Expo at the Bergamo Fair. Where the quality festivals, the proposals of food and wine tourism, the paths of spirituality and art will be reviewed. Today’s food and wine tourist is looking for emotions, experiences to live to … Read more

Mammuccini of FederBio: «There is no food sovereignty without agroecology»

Here is the complete text of the speech by Maria Grazia Mammuccini, president of FederBio, in the published section in the January issue of Terra Nuova magazine . «The concept of food sovereignty, as conceived by the peasant movements that coined it, was born about thirty years ago in opposition to a globalized agri-food model, … Read more

11 mythical scenes of the cinema around food

Food has always been a very recurring element when it comes to telling stories in the cinema. It is something everyday, very visual and capable of provoking all kinds of emotions: from nostalgia, pleasure or discomfort to obviously hunger. We have compiled 11 mythical scenes from movies that you surely remember because they revolve around … Read more

Healthy food, a real political and spiritual position

True way of life for some, political fight or simple psychological comfort, for others, our relationship to food says a lot about our time. In his book Food spirituality, detox juice brands or the myth of self-elevatingLouise Laclautre tells how we went from the talk of thinness at all costs to that of absolute well-being … Read more

“Today, claiming to be part of a food movement is a political position” (Louise Laclautre, author of “Food Spirituality”)

(ETX Daily Up) – True way of life for some, political struggle or simple psychological comfort, for others, our relationship to food says a lot about our times. In her book “Food spirituality, Detox juice brands or the myth of self-elevation”, Louise Laclautre tells how we went from the discourse of thinness at all costs … Read more

The second Slow Food Earth Market opens on Sunday in San Floriano

In the 2018 on these pages we were writing about the inauguration of the first Earth Market from Slow Food in Sommacampagna. Since then, dozens of unmissable appointments have followed on a monthly basis. Today, we write about the inauguration of one new edition of the Earth Market that takes place Sunday 16 October in … Read more

From 4 to 9 October 2022 Middle East Now returns to Florence, the festival that offers an immersion in the more contemporary Middle Eastern culture through cinema, documentaries, art, comics, music, food, meetings and special events

Middle East Now returns to Florence from 4 to 9 October 2022, at the Cinema La Compagnia, at the Cinema Stensen and in other city spaces, with a multifaceted program of events, including cinema, documentaries, art, exhibitions, music, food, meetings and projects cultural in a broader sense. This is a festival that has always been … Read more

Balagan Cafe: music, kosher wine and Jewish food tastings

Last appointment for this year, next Thursday 1 September, with the tenth edition of the Balagàn Café in the garden of the Synagogue (free admission from via Farini, 6 starting at 7 pm). The special summer cultural event, organized by the Jewish Community of Florence and the Jewish Tuscan Network Committee in … Read more

The Way of the Peoples #4 The Food of Art The Food of Art Saturday September 10, 2022

The Way of the Peoples #4 Living from art, September 10, 2022, Bordeaux. The Way of the Peoples #4 September 10 and 11 Living from artFree admissionThe “Way of the Peoples” festival continues to explore and celebrate the cultural diversity of our world. It is the peoples of India who will be honored for this … Read more