Slow Food London

New events with our partner Edible Experiences

We're pleased that we're partnering with Edible Experiences, who share our slow values.  What's an Edible Experience? Chooose from cooking and baking classes, market tours, knife workshops, cheese tastings, preparing traditional foods - everything from pig butchery to making Kimchi.

Edible Experiences partner with hundreds of London’s most exciting  food entrepreneurs.

Recent events people enjoyed:  Catalan pig cookery and general piggery: 2 dates Saturday or Sunday 1-2 March.

We'll let you know about the best events in our newsletter, via Twitter and Facebook, and time permitting, here on our blog.

Booking now

Kimchi making workshop by Yijo Korean restaurant
Love Korean pickles? Instead of buying imported kimchi, how about learning how to make your own with local vegetables? Chef JP will show you his secret techniques, and along the way you'll learn about the health benefits of eating fermented foods
Monday 7 April  Finchley N3  £35

Exclusive: Thomasina Miers talks about food and waste

Mazda Real Challengers delves into the lives of 10 people who have cast convention aside to achieve incredible results. One of these 10 is ..

Thomasina Miers, co-founder of  Wahaca, fighter against food waste and 2005 Masterchef winner. The first Wahaca opened in 2007, bringing fresh, authentic Mexican food to London. The innovation does not stop with the cuisine; Wahaca restaurants are achieving up to 92% recycling rates. Wahaca was voted sustainable restaurant group of the year in 2012 and 2013.

Thomasina, along with Tristram Stuart & Feeding the 5000, Stepney City Farm and Wahaca, launched The Pig Idea, an initiative to feed food waste to pigs. Did you know that feeding food waste to pigs was a wartime legal obligation?  Did you know 50 million tonnes of food waste are thrown out every year? Slow Food London proudly supports this campaign.

Watch Thomasina interviewed by Richard Parks now.

Note: Mazda Real Challengers is launching Monday 24th Feb

Call for food producers and market traders for indoor December 5 food market

Call for food producers and market traders for indoor December 5 food market.

A chance to take part in the ethical winter market being organised with Slow Food London for the HUB Westminster on Wednesday December 5th 11:00-19:00.

There will be up to twenty food producers present. Stands are £40 each. A Tasting plate for lunch will be prepared from a selection of the produce at the market.
Email [email protected] for details.

The HUB has over 450 members and most are small start up businesses involved in some way with sustainability and ethical projects.

The market will be held indoors in the HUB and there is parking beneath the building.

Win the entire set of 20 books of the Great Food series from Penguin

Brillat-Savarin: "Tell me what you eat: I will tell you what you are" - The Pleasures of the Table.

Throughout the history of civilization, food has been more than simple necessity. In countless cultures, it has been livelihood, status symbol, entertainment – and passion. In the new Great Food series, Penguin brings together 20 beautifully designed books featuring the sharpest, funniest, most delicious writing about food from the past four hundred years.

Here are kitchen conversations across the centuries: from the warm and bossy Gervase Markham in 1615 to the freshness and seasonality of the latest writer, Alice Waters, founder of the slow food movement; while Calvin Trillin, lover of ribs and burgers, shares a quirky, sidelong love of food and aphorisms with that well-known eighteenth-century foodie, Brillat-Savarin.

Great Food offers something for every food lover: the enthusiastic cook who bites the bullet and makes their own haschiche fudge or jugged hare; the armchair foodie, reading for inspiration and pleasure; and the social history lover who relishes the chance to peek inside kitchens in the past and across the world. See the whole series at www.penguin.co.uk/greatfood . Books £6.99 each.

You have the chance to win the entire set of 20 books! Simply  use the hash tag #greatfoodsf when tweeting; or comment on the Facebook event about which book and why you are most excited about owning.  Or comment on this post.