Festival del Gusto

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...

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 Pu...

The Festivaldelgusto later this month will be held again at the beautiful Castello di Monterado in the Le Marche region of Italy. We are very pleased to be holding this prestigious event again in this beautiful castle in the village of Monterado in the Le Marche region of eastern Italy and there are plans to hold other similar events there in the future. This year the Festivaldelgusto will be held on Sunday 27th September and there will be many new Marchigiani producers present this year in addition to many of the artisan food and drink producers who were present at the event last year. The Festival in 2014 attracted many of the best local food and wine producers from the northern and central provinces of the Marche region, and we are pleased that this year we will also have several producers from the south of Marche. New producers this year will include Oleificio Silvestri Rosina  an organic olive oil producers from Spinetoli in the south of the Marche region and a local co oper...

Festivaldelgusto are pleased to be associated with the first Slow Food Anglia seafood festival to be held in Colchester, Essex on the 5th and 6th September. This festival will aim to promote Slow Food in the east of England to a wider public and also attract new members to the organisation in this part of England which currently does not have a local group. The event will be run in partnership with Food and Drink Festivals UK which is based in Colchester and has many years of experience organising festivals in the east of England and other parts of the country. Festivaldelgusto holds its premier food and drink festival in Italy each September at which small Italian artisan producers showcase their produce to visitors both from Italy and other parts of the world including the UK, Holland, Germany, the USA, Canada and Australia, and in the coming years will also be concentrating on food related events in Malta and London. We have been approached by other food and drink produce...

Festivaldelgusto works closely with many food and drink producers both in Italy and also in the UK with the aim of  promoting them and their produce to a wider public and as part of this activity we now also cooperate closely with the International Slow Food organisation in both these countries. We are pleased that at the next Festivaldelgusto in Le Marche, Italy on Septmber 27th that as well as having over twenty wine and food producers present we will also have Slow Food Marche, Slow Food Ancona and Conero, Slow Food Anglia from the UK and hopefully Slow food Holland take part. Slow Food Marche has established close links to Slow Food Anglia as they both contain large fishing communities within the regions they represent and Festivaldelgusto is part of the structure they will use to hold tours, events and workshops in their respective countries. Festivaldelgusto is also one of the main supporters of Slow Food Anglia events which they hold throughout the east of England in the...

We are very pleased to be holding another Festivaldelgusto later this year at the beautiful Castello di Monterado in the Le Marche region of Italy. Last year was the first time that this popular event had been held in Monterado and the owner had asked us if it was possible to hold this years Festival there once again and we are now very happy to be based once again at this beautiful castle in the Le Marche region of Italy. This year the Festivaldelgusto will be held on Sunday 27th September and it is expected that there will be many new producers present on the day in addition to most of the artisan producers who took part last year. The Festival in 2014 attracted many of the best local food and wine producers from the northern and central provinces of the Marche region, and this year we hope that more producers from the south of Marche will also be present. Siamo molto lieti di annunciare che anche quest'anno il Festivaldelgusto si terrà nella suggestiva location del Castello d...

This year the Festivaldelgusto was again held in the Le Marche region of eastern Italy, this time at the historic venue of the Castello de Monterado near the beautiful Adriatic resort of Senigallia. We were determined to build on the success of the first Festival in Italy in 2013 so this year we decided to hold the event at the Castello as we knew this beautiful venue well and were also encouraged and supported by the enthusiasm of the owner Orlando Rodano to hold our event there. The Castello di Monterado is a perfect place to hold events and is a stunning venue situated in the small village of Monterado which was founded in 1267, it is about 15 km from the Adriatic coast and the beautiful seaside resort town of Senigallia. The weather in Italy this year has not been very good with storms, a great deal of rain and high winds on and off over the spring and summer, indeed only a few days before the event there were very high winds and storms on the coast which had done a lot of damage...