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Article: Tastings, dinners and visits on menu at convivium.
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- Berwick Advertiser (Berwick upon Tweed, England)
- Article date:
- July 27, 2006
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BERWICK Slow Food Convivium was recently formed at a meeting in Spittal and is now planning events across the Eastern Borders.
Spanning an area up to 40 kilometres from Berwick, plans include visits to farms and producers, blind tastings, cookery demonstrations, dinners and even an alternative Christmas menu.
The Slow Food movement began in 1986 when an Italian journalist visited Rome and saw a brand new branch of McDonalds at the foot of the Spanish Steps.
Carlo Petrini was horrified. To him, it seemed that a global takeover of industrialised, standardised fast food was well on the way so he decided that it was necessary to set up a 'slow food' ...