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Sunday 6th July - Ledbury Poetry Festival
Calling all loafers, loungers, ne’er-do-wells, gate-leaners and layabouts! The editor of the marvellously subversive Idler magazine, anti-work campaigner and author of books like the cult bestseller How to be Idle and How to be Free, Tom Hodgkinson arrives in Ledbury. He will draw on the words of well-known idler poets including Keats and Wordsworth, in an event that will weave poetry and polemic with a call to inaction. This event will link with Slow Food Herefordshire whose manifesto states, “May suitable doses of guaranteed sensual pleasure and slow, long-lasting enjoyment preserve us from the contagion of the multitude who mistake frenzy for efficiency”

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Sunday 13th July - Slow Strawberry Cream Team
After the success of the Know your Strawberry event last year at Court Farm Tillington we realise that strawberries are a favourite amongst members so members and friends are invited to enjoy a strawberry cream team, croquet and sparkling wine from 4pm at Leintwardine House, Leintwardine.

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A convivial dinner will be held in September, date to be confirmed, and on *25th & 26th October* we will once again be flying the Slow flag at the Flavours of Herefordshire Food Festival: a stall full of Slow Food goodies and some excellent talks/tastings are promised. If any members would like to get more involved in this event and help in organising talks or tastings or just helping out at the festival please contact Slow Food Herefordshire.

The season ends in November 2008 when we will meet to consider red wines to go with washed rind cheeses. Date to be confirmed.

Separate information on many of these events will follow closer to the time.

23rd October - 1st November - TOUR TO SLOW FOOD SALONE DEL GUSTO AND LUCCA, ITALY

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Slow Food Herefordshire had a stand at the Year of Food and Farming event in High Town Hereford on Saturday 19th April. It was good to meet so many people keen to learn more about where their food comes from and meet farmers and producers. Slow Food offered tastings of two items made from local, seasonal ingredients. Lots of people wanted the recipes you will find them on our recipes page. Other things you can do with rhubarb include meringues and pies.

One of the nicest ways of serving lamb at this time of the year is a Lamb Koresh which is a Persian lamb stew – the rhubarb makes a sharp and refreshing contrast - email us for a recipe at info@slowfoodherefordshire.com

Slow Food Visit to France by Carolyn Chesshire
In April 2007 I travelled with a group of Slow Food members from the Herefordshire, Ludlow Marches and London Convivia to visit L'Haut Languedoc in south west France. We were guests of the local Slow Food Convivium and received wonderful hospitality from Christopher Elliott and Therese Savarin at Le Chateau de Colombieres sur Orb where we all stayed for a week.

Each day, Christopher and Therese introduced us to a different food and drink experience and we visited vineyards, a trout farm, goats' cheese makers, chocolatieres, the famous house of Noilly Prat and oyster beds. The area is so rich in small, artisanal producers that we were spoilt for choice. Chris, Therese and members of their Slow Food Convivium took us to the best local markets where, under the tutelage of Therese, we shopped for local, seasonal and unusual ingredients, returning home to prepare them for dinner using Therese's knowledge and skills of the area's traditional cooking methods.

It was a week of food and more food with a lot of wine included. The trip really helped to cement ties with other food producers and we all learned many new ways including the ancient art of foraging for wild foods & plants – nuts, herbs, fruits & fungi. The Chris and Therese would love to share their foodie knowledge of the area and will welcome any other groups of people who'd love to get away from it all and indulge in a spot of Food Tourism in this unspoilt part of France.

The website is www.gitesdecharme.biz - have a look or come and meet Chris, Therese, Serge (their convivium leader) and Dominique, his wife at the Ludlow Marches Food and Drink Festival in September.

We visited many old villages and market towns and Pezenas has an unusual link with England and the Marches. These are some tasty little pies with an interesting history...Download Recipe

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