Which cheese would you save?

The recent edition of Cheese - Slow Food's biennial festival celebrating artisanal cheese from around the world - is set to be an important moment, for the movement, for food biodiversity and for endangered dairy products. ?

Taking place in Bra, Italy, the international event reflected the direction of the movement. First it brought to light the half-hidden world of dairy products; then it launched a vigorous campaign defending raw milk cheese production; now it is raising its voice in defense of small, marginalized producers. ??

The focus of the 2013 edition of Cheese event is endangered foods. Through the Ark of Taste - a project to catalog traditional foods at risk of disappearing - Slow Food is working to protect food biodiversity and save products that could be lost altogether. The current catalog already includes several dairy products, but there are many more that need protecting; along with the traditional knowledge, techniques, cultures and landscapes behind their production.??

The Ark of Taste seeks to raise awareness of the problems facing small-scale traditional cheese production. And it was decided that the best way to raise public awareness of the issue was to ask visitors and Slow Food supporters to become active protagonists of the event. "Save a cheese" became the slogan, and we are inviting you to nominate a dairy product you want to save. Interested people were invited to hunt down these endangered cheeses: investigate the products in their area, remember a cheese eaten with their family twenty or thirty years ago - or even to think about someone who still raises animals and has a creamery. Then people were asked to nominate it for the Ark of Taste.

 

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