Slow Food - Will not it a scam? I've always admired and supported the philosophy of slow food, even before it was born. Nutrition education impartitami from my mother, the imprinting to put it in modern terms, has instilled in me an awareness of good food, healthy varied making me keep away from industrial production. Never as a kid I brought to school "snack", rather a roll with butter and jam or fruit of his grandfather with omelette with vegetables.
older, following the trail of friends, I also attended the fast food, one with a capital M, but I must say for a moment. I preferred instead to pick up a tray of porridge in the streets of Savona and Berci with a glass of wine.
In the following years, when the culture of fast food was raging everywhere, the standardization of the food and the extremes of industrial production with the release of "new" cutting edge products and who knows just how much more extreme of natural origin, I begin to hear about Slow Food. Fianlmente someone who thinks like me, someone who loves food as such and not just as a vice for the taste buds burned by chemical flavor enhancers.
I immediately backed the lmovimento even if I never joined, attending rduni, fairs, festivals and qaunt'altro spinning in the galaxy of taste.
This year, being free of work commitments I managed to find time to attend the event highlights of the movement: Salone del Gusto. I missed, I was not able to go there in previous years. Then as listener of Caterpillar, I also experienced a certain charm dictated by the irony of the two conductors, who, having extolled the praises of the previous years and "sponsoring" this edition is strongly made me decide: I went to the salon and I would gsto recorded in slow food, me and my family.
finally comes time Sunday, October 26 early in the morning I put in with destination travel Lingotto.
good start, to slow not only the food. The queue at the ticket office is slow. Over an hour!. Oh well, patience, at least the event ....
within, around, I estimate. Never was most disappointed
great!
20 Euro to see the market stalls!
80% of the area was dedicated to exhibitors with over the counter, labeled with references to nature and the biological, priced at twice the real value.
While in the Oval, where they were grouped by Slow Food was able to watch a real taste of the illicit trade. Bestsellers tasting as wine tasting. It 's true that the exhibitors do not exhibit for the honor and glory, that everything should have a for-profit and for sustenance and support of minor reality. But 2 euros for a slice of bread and two slices of ham I am seem an exaggeration. I've seen cheese sold at 65 euro per kilo! Nor were made with milk raccoon.
And finally a note on the ecology.
E 'was highlighted by the media, that the exhibition would be held in the name of environmental protection. The laudable initiative of the total recycling. Too bad that the different containers were always full .....
Not to mention water. Dear friends of Caterpillar, very active combatants against the lobby of mineral waters, why not have criticized the system in this case? Just because you have a space (that you have made anyway) you should not have to feel compelled to silence this nonsense.
To gain access to the water you had to make a row of quarter of an hour to find that the 1.5-liter water was used up and there were only half bottles liter! 3 bottles twice in one day mean € 9! Not to mention the mountain of waste produced. Caterpillar
remember when an episode dedicated to water selected by NASA to fill the space station that just came from the aqueduct of Turin! Would not it be more environmentally compatible and consistent with the hypocritical philosophy of the event set up a series of troughs on public mains water supply?
In the end even you, my dear Cirri & Solibello (which still continue to listen to) preach good (but only partially) and scratching bad (but only partially?).
conclude my outburst, because of the disappointment felt at the sight of this Castle-profit media, I abandoned the idea to put me and my family association Slow Food. Unfortunately, this is great idea into the classic Italian way! And a bit I'm sorry.
account of the day between inputs, wine tasting, water: 136 € for three persons.
did not include the trip, however I would go somewhere else.
