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Plans for this year are beginning to take shape, starting with our regular Book Club event. Some events are nearly ready, others are at the ideas stage and are lacking an organiser. See the latest update for details. So, if you'd like to see a particular event go ahead, contact leader@slowfood-oxon.org.uk and find out how you could help.
Should you have any ideas, any causes you want us to defend and support, please click on the link!: leader@slowfood-oxon.org.uk
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What is Slow Food Oxon?
We are one of nearly 1,000 Convivia (local chapters) of Slow Food International, which was founded in 1986 in Italy. Slow Food has grown into an international network with members and convivia all over the world.
Sweet wine tasting - spaces still available
One of Jeremy's friends is a wine merchant with a 'penchant' for sweet wine. Mark will come and talk to us about the nuances behind this generic term and will advise us on how to marry them with food.
Cost: £20 per head, providing you with the wine and nibbles.
Children's Food Festival
After
quite a few meetings, our proposal is taken shape and has been accepted
by Slow Food UK and the Festival organisation committee
Therefore
there will be a Slow Food stand at the Festival, managed by Slow Food
UK with heavy support form our little convivium...
The idea is to walk kids through the senses allowing them to enjoy food on the basis of guessing games
We
obviously need volunteers on this, the more the merrier... even a
couple of hours of your time during the weekend of the 27-28th of June
would be greatly appreciated!
Book Club - Portrait of a Chef: the Life of Alexis Soyer
The book is Portrait of a Chef: the Life of Alexis Soyer by Helen Morris. Unfortunately, it is out of print, but can be obtained used from Amazon and other sources. Please join us for a discussion of Soyer, a nineteenth-century celebrity chef, author, inventor and campaigner to improve hospital kitchens in Crimea.
We will meet as usual in the Summertown Wine Cafe.
Slow Food UK at the Children's Food Festival
"In what sense?"
Draft Proposal
Muryel Boulay, Alan Roe
May 4th, 2009
1. Introduction
The Children's Food Festival is organised by the Northmoor Trust and takes place on its farm ten miles south of Oxford. See the Press Release.
Date and time: Saturday 27 (10am - 6pm) and Sunday 28 June (10am - 5pm)
