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Home » Artisans and producers » Terra Madre Salone del Gusto 2016

Terra Madre Salone del Gusto 2016

05/10/2016 by Amanda

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Lambs’ Ears braves the teeming hordes at Slow Food’s Terra Madre Salone del Gusto 2016 to share a remarkable food experience. 

various types of beans at terra madre

ALL the beans!

In an effort to ensure that you, dear reader, are not feeling totally neglected while I am on holidays in sunny Italy I want to share a brief taste of the wonderful experience that is Slow Food’s Terra Madre Salone del Gusto. 

This is an event which is held every two years in Turin, Italy, and is simply the food festival to end all food festivals.

terra madre glacé fruit

A wealth of local glacéd & chocolate covered fruit – not a locally produced product that is easy to find in Australia these days.

terra madre porcini mushrooms

So many Porcini mushrooms!

Wild-grown green preserves at terra madre

Wild-grown green preserves.

Vacuum-packed wild greens, ready to heat and serve at terra madre

Vacuum-packed wild greens, ready to heat and serve.

Billed as “the largest and most culturally-significant food and wine fair in the world”, the four day event combined what was previously two separate international food gatherings and was held in various locations in Turin. Much of it was open air and, with the exception of workshops, forums and conferences, was free to the public giving them a chance to meet food producers and explore food from all regions of Italy and from many, many corners of the world.

terra madre - A novel way to serve Gorgonzola.

A novel way to serve Gorgonzola.

terra madre - Cheese in a cone!

Cheese in a cone!

Croatian cow cheese from Podravina at terra madre 2016

Croatian cow cheese from Podravina.

terra madre more cheese

Having Bra flashbacks with all of this cheese.

I attended some of the conferences and had a fantastic afternoon getting familiar with the world of vermouth in a workshop (more about that in a later post). However, the most popular part of the whole event was easily the enormous range of food products that were on exhibition. Arranged over several separate city locations, it was possible to to taste pistachios from Bronte, bush tucker from Noosa or cheese from Scandinavia.

terra madre lardo

Mmmm – lard. Love that fat!

Seriously large bread loaves at terra madre

Serious bread in a country that takes bread seriously.

terra madre bread

More bread!

terra madre rice

fragrant bergamot, terra madre

The divinely fragrant, but critically endangered Bergamot – grown only in Calabria, Italy, with small amounts produced in the south of France and Côte D’Ivoire.

Traditional Mishavin cheese, terra madre

Mishavinë – the Albanian cheese that is saving a culinary culture.

I was particularly excited to discover and taste the little-known Mishavinë cheese from Albania. Just a couple of weeks before I had listened to a BBC Food Programme about this cheese. It is a fermented cheese made in only a very small region and was nearly lost because of political posturing during the communist rule. It has been rediscovered just in time and is heralding a new future for Albanian cuisine.

On a par with our experience last year at the Bra Cheese Fair (where I discovered that “too much cheese” really is a thing) this festival requires a degree of commitment. All of the locations were popular and very crowded – especially over the weekend. Getting to each and every stall would have involved a mammoth effort and more stamina than this blogger has, but I can assure you – after our day of tasting I went to bed tired, happy and very full. 

 

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  1. Liz Posmyk (Good Things)

    October 05, 2016 at 11:27 am

    Posted from my sick bed… your post brightened my day no end, Amanda. That sunshine, that delicious food, the gorgonzola in a cone. Yummy!

  2. Gourmet Getaways

    October 06, 2016 at 1:05 am

    What a fabulous story!
    Thanks for sharing
    Julie
    Gourmet Getaways

  3. Kyrstie @ A Fresh Legacy

    November 08, 2016 at 5:01 pm

    How amazing, a dream holiday! I am envious. I am guessing the lectures were in Italian? I’ll need to do some practice if I plan on making it to one….

  4. Amanda

    November 08, 2016 at 5:34 pm

    Kyrstie – some lectures were in Italian. Some had interpreters – and some didn’t.

Trackbacks

  1. In My Kitchen November 2016 says:
    04/11/2016 at 12:47 am

    […] costly spice in the world – saffron. I bought a little organic saffron from Spain while at the Slow Food Terra Madre Salone del Gusto and then found the mother-lode at a little shop in old Dubai, on the way home. The latter was […]

  2. A Vermouth Workshop with Riserva Carlo Alberto says:
    21/11/2016 at 12:45 am

    […] Fortunately, my woeful ignorance of this delicious beverage was thoroughly addressed one day in it’s home-town when The Bloke and I attended a vermouth workshop, one of the activities on offer during the recent Slow Food Terra Madre. […]

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