Fancy a delicious trip around the world?

Join me as I tour Terra Madre; the world’s largest food festival, where representatives from around 120 countries gathered in October 2024 to share their unique food cultures.

The event has been running for 20 years and has gained some serious momentum, with around 300,000 attendees this year. Bringing people together like this, where the diversity of our planet is articulated in a cornucopia of flavours and foodways, is in and of itself a wonderful spectacle to behold. But what value does it have, beyond being a delicious day out?

Find out how this international perspective could help us think about our own food future here in the Scottish Borders.

I speak with delegates from Albania, the Philippines, Australia, Italy, Brazil, and beyond, to hear how rural communities elsewhere in the world have harnessed the power of food to transform economies, communities and ecologies where they are.

The FoodScape returns at the end of January 2025 with a new season of podcasts about how food shapes our lives and land in the Scottish Borders.

Featured in this episode:

Slow Food International - the organisation that created Terra Madre

* www.SlowFood.com

Terra Madre Festival - held every two years in Turin, Italy.

* visit the website of the 2024 event

The University of Gastronomic Sciences - the university founded by Slow Food

* www.unisg.it

Slow Food Presidia and the Ark of Taste

* visit the website

For more information and photos of the individuals featured in this episode, please visit the FoodScape Instagram account. I’ll also be posting a few more things about the event right here on the Substack.

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Produced & Presented by Charlotte Maberly

Music by Iain Fraser from his album Koterana