Slow Music
What is it, you may well ask. Music which bears similar characteristics to the food championed by the Slow Movement, for one thing, but there might be numerous other factors. Whatever, music has been an increasing preoccupation of the Slow Movement’s Italian theoreticians for some years now, and we in the very musical city of Bristol intend to get in on the act, as it were. News soon. In the meantime, if interested, see two articles on the subject by Phil Sweeney, here & here. [NB these and other articles posted are not so much shameless self-promotion as scraping around for content for this site, which will doubtless soon start to arrive].
Market Award
In February, Bristol Slow Food Market (the UK’s first and the model for the recently introduced Italian Earth Markets) was the winner, along with the Bristol Farmers Market, of a National Association of Market Authorities Speciality Market of the Year Award, the Oscar of the market world.
Event News 2008
After a patchy start, 2008 concluded with two outstandingly successful events.
In October, the Slow Frugal Dinner celebrated the publication of our new member Fiona Beckett’s book The Frugal Cook. A packed Ocean Cafe tucked into a bargain basement menu of treats such as lambs heart casserole, bubble and squeak and fromage trouve, created by Stuart Seth in consultation with Fiona.
In December another animated throng of members and friends met in Quartier Vert for the Slow Food Bristol Christmas Party, combined with the celebration of the Twentieth Anniversary of Barny Haughton’s ground-breaking first restaurant. Unfortunately QV closed down shortly afterwards, but this was less due to the Curse of Slow Food than the economic climate.
Bristol Slow Food was also instrumental in the organization of another extremely successful event in Barny Haughton’s newer restaurant, Bordeaux Quay. This was the national Soil Association Slow Food Dinner, which brought together several hundred delegates from around the country, and a battalion of the West Country’s best food producers. BQ staged a sumptuous buffet of which delights such as Othniel oysters, poached carp with sauce gribiche, Heron Green Farm roast beef with aligot and West Country ice-creams were merely a small selection of high points.
Slow Salone Turin October 2008
A smaller but no less energetic Bristol contingent attended than in 2006. See Phil Sweeney’s report on the event here.
We strongly recommend putting October 2010 in your diaries for the next Piemonte Slow extravaganza.
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