Eco-Gastronomes

Food lovers should beg, borrow or steal a copy of the new Slow Food Journal, for it details the winners of the Slow Food awards presented late last year to the most remarkable bunch of people you could imagine. Honoured by Carlo Petrini and his organisation are folk as diverse as the Canadian ethnobotanist Nancy Turner, whose research into the use of plants and herbs of the indigenous peoples of Vancouver Island has attempted to keep alive a swift vaishing culture, the transhumance expert from Spain, Jesus Garzón, and Nancy Turner, an Englishwoman who runs a dairy in Mauritania.

Nancy Turner

The awards cover people whose work unites ecological respect with food production, and does so in the most profound way. It is humbling to read the stories of these people, but inspiring also. "The time has come for us to prove that we are truly eco-gastronomes, but without forgetting the values of the right to pleasure and quality that have always characterized our philosophy. Read this book and treasure it as it deserves", writes Carlo Petrini.

Sign up to Slow Food now, and be that eco-gastronome.

Website: www.slowfood.com