Slow Food home | About us | Foundation | Editore | Sloweb | Press Office | Store     Sloweb     Home | Sloweek | Voices from the Slow world | Slow Talk | News | Watch & Listen             On Your Bikes! 28 Sep 07 - Sloweb EXCLUSIVE – Yesterday was the second day in the month-long bike and boat journey down the River Po undertaken by 180 students from the University of Gastronomic Sciences in Pollenzo to celebrate the 50th anniversary of Viaggio nel Po (Journey along the Po), a pioneering Italian TV documentary in which the famous film director and novelist Mario Soldati traveled down the river ‘in search of genuine foods’, After setting out from the source of the river on the slopes of Monviso on Wednesday, yesterday morningthe party made its way through heavy rain to the village of Staffarda to attend lectures by Professors Pier Carlo Grimaldi and Ambrogio Ardoni on oral and written traditions and anthropology in the Cistercian Abbey of Santa Maria. 15 kilometers further on, they stopped for lunch in the small town of Moretta before traveling another 13.2 kilometers to Racconigi, where they were greeted by the town councilors and listened to a brief talk on the royal farms of Pollenzo and Racconigi by Mirella Macèra, local representative of the Italian Ministry for Culture and the Environment, and her colleague Mario Monasterolo. A group of students from the university’s Slow Food convivium are broadcasting the journey by Web TV, interspersing live coverage with interviews and clips from previous activities, such as the Cheese 2007 event which was held in Bra, headquarters of the Slow Food movement, last week. For Web TV and updates from the students: http://condotta.studentiunisg.it/ To contact the convivium: condotta@studenti.unisg.it Photo: the Abbey of Staffarda   News archive from Terramadre News archive from Slowfood Foundation for Biodiversity News archive from University of Gastronomic Sciences News archive from Watch & Listen           News     Bulgaria - 27 Jul 10     Brotherhood Across the Balkans     A communal desire to support small-scale traditional producers in the face of growing threats from regulations and the food industry united food communities from ten countries across the...           News archive     Italy - 22 Jul 10     Dream Canteens     Slow Food buildings a strong network of schools putting good, clean and fair in the canteen ...     Belgium - 16 Jul 10     A Slow Voice in Policy Reform     Slow Food President Carlo Petrini participates in a public debate conference on Europe’s Common Agricultural Policy ...     Denmark - 14 Jul 10     Convivial Danes     Danish convivial join the country’s largest fair of artisan producers to share the Slow Food message ...     Argentina - 08 Jul 10     Flavors from the Andes to Patagonia     Terra Madre Argentina unites producers, cooks, academics and consumers in Buenos Aires ...     Macedonia - 02 Jul 10     Preserving Figs and a Gastronomic Heritage     The Wild Fig Slatko Presidium is created to protect a traditional preserve ...     Croatia - 23 Jun 10     Thank you for Everything, Giani     Farewell to Giani Banich, a friend and dynamic figure in the Slow Food movement ...     Archive previous news   Slow Food 2010 - All rights reserved - P.iva 91008360041 - Powered by Blulab