Festival del Gusto

Norwich is a city which has seen a dramatic increase in interest in local food culture over the past five years and seems to have new restaurants, bars and cafes opening every month and an explosion of interest in good, sustainably sourced food and drink. We are pleased to be involved with several small local food and drink businesses who have plans to hold food festivals and food related events across the city this December and in 2017, one of these is the local street food group, Feast on the Street who will be holding an Christmas festival at the Shoe factory Social club on the 10th December. The festival at the old Shoe Factory will be the first collaboration between Feast on the Street, Slow Food Norwich and us at Festivaldelgusto, Feast on the Street are a small group of fifteen independent street food traders based in Norwich and in north Norfolk. The venue where the festival is being held is a fantastic old factory and a warehouse near the centre of Norwich and unfortunately

Festivaldelgusto are very pleased to be one of the participants with Slow Food Anglia at the prestigious Italian food and drink event, the   Gusto Italia  which is held on November 7th and 8th at the Sheraton Hotel, Park Lane in central London. As part of our ongoing commitment to our friends and clients in Italy we are attending the event to build on the very close links we now have with Sicilian and mainland Italian olive oil producers, chefs and artisan food businesses. We will also strengthen our ties that we now have built up with Olivaverde, Slow Food Anglia, Slow Food Sicilia and Slow Food groups in Italy. Carmelo Carnevale the Sicilian chef who is responsible for organising Gusto Italia has personally invited Slow Food Anglia members and they have included us in their stand at the event. Carmelo came to Norwich to take part in our joint Festivaldelgusto and Slow Food Anglia festival we held there in August and he also met with our partners at Olivaverde at that event and sam

On a recent trip to Malta we finally managed to visit the Gaia Foundation  and meet some of the inspirational people who are part of this exciting environmental project set up in 1994.  They are a non profit and non Governmental organisation and belongs to the Global Ecovillage Network, is a member of the Worldwatch Institute and part of the world wide Gaia Movement. The Foundation is based in the Elysium coastal site which is located in the Gwajn Tuffieha  area of the Maltese islands and also very close to the very popular Golden bay which makes up part of this beautiful coastline. While visiting the Foundation we visited the nearby olive groves, where there are olive trees of Carolea, Frantoio, Cipressino, Leccino and some lesser know varieties of Maltese olive. We hope to be able to arrange tastings in both London and Norwich later in the year of this very rare and special extra virgin olive oil. Durante il nostro ultimo viaggio a Malta siamo finalmente riusciti a visitare la Gai

Festivaldelgusto will be working closely with the olive oil group Olivaverde at the new and exciting Breks Food festival in Norfolk this September. Both groups have been involved with food, drink and lifestyle festivals in London and the east of England for many years and we are looking forward to our joint cooperating with the new Breks Food festival to be held at the Fire Pit near Swaffham in September which is being held in conjunction with the annual Slow Food festival that has been held at the Fire Pit Camp over the past three years. One of the main aims of both Festivaldelgusto and Olivaverde is to be involved with local communities and events in areas in which we promote our fine artisan produced olive oils so we are very pleased to be involved with the Breks food festival for the first time. Festivaldelgusto normally are focused on events in Italy and the Mediterranean region but are pleased to be part of the Breks festival this year. The Fire Pit Camp is an in

Two years ago the small Slow Food group on Malta was approached with the idea of a dedicated Slow Food Mediterranean festival which would be held in a well known venue on the Island of Malta, the aim was to bring artisan olive oil and food producers from Malta and Sicily together for the first time in this way. Festivaldelgusto are now very pleased that working together with  Slow Food Malta  and with Slow Food Sicilia  as well as Slow Food Anglia on plans to bring the first artisan food festival of this type to the Island in June 2017. This October 29th 2016 there will be a Slow Food conference on Malta at the  Excelsior Hotel  in Valletta to promote the festival and to raise awareness of the Slow Food group on Malta. there will be workshops and talks during this one day event and there will be a maximum of 80 places available to both Slow Food members and other guests. The groups in their respective countries are all very passionate about the ethos and also the work of Slow Food a

We will be working with  Slow Food Norwich ,  Slow Food Anglia and Norwich City Council on the first Slow Food artisan food and life festival to be held in the city of Norwich in August 2016, this is now planned to be an annual event and we are all very pleased to have such great support from the city council in the beautiful historic city. Slow Food Norwich was set up in Norwich in 2009 by people interested in promoting good, clean fair food in the city and also in the county of Norfolk, Slow Food Anglia was established in 2015 and is now the regional entity which helps set up new groups and also promotes and supports all the established groups across East Anglia. Norwich City Council  are very proactive in promoting environmental issues and hold several events on environmental and sustainability issues in Norwich each year including their well known One Planet Festival  , they also work closely with Slow Food Norwich on the Pumpkin Waste festival events held each autumn in the ci