Slow Food Norwich has been invited to take part in the Worstead Festival this year and we are very happy to be able to speak and give a presentation at this very popular festival in Norfolk.
The Worsted Festival takes place over two days in July, Saturday 28th and Sunday 29th and has proved to be a very popular event over the many years that it has been running, it was originally started in the village in the 1960's and in the past two years it has been taken back to its original village roots...
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Slow Food Norwich as well as being associated with several of the small artisan food producers in Norfolk has also worked closely with a talented team of fabric and clothes designers who also promote the Slow Lifestyle ethos to life.
Yesterday in Norwich we were asked to take part in the first Slow Makers market in the Magdalen Street are of the city which is full of wonderful art and crafts shops as well as a large diverse range of small food shops, markets and coffee bars.
Aviva Leigh of Slow...
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Twenty of us, Slow food Norwich members and guests met up at St Benedicts restaurant in Norwich on Friday evening 8th July, kindly hosted by Jayne Raffles of the Raffles group of restaurants in Norwich.
The food was excellent and the evening was a great success, with many of the members meeting only for the first time as we all live and work in different parts of Norwich and Norfolk.
Among those present were the owners of Humpty Dumpty Brewery near Reedham, Brendan from Crush foods near Dereham...
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I met with Laura from Norwich Farm share and she has invited our members to their open day at the farm at Postwick on Saturday 11th June.
 
There will be a tour of the farm and the current crops they are growing and it should be a great day out for the public and with special activities for children to get involved with the farm and its plans for the future.

There will be a lot of farmshare members present to answer any questions and you are invited to bring a picnic if the weather is nice and m...
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During the past two weeks we have visited several members of Slow Food London and Slow Food Cambridge to discuss our plans and coming events in the spring of 2011. Slow Food Cambridge is working closely with us to help with ideas and practical help for food related events in the next few months as well as building a much closer partnership on which we can co ordinate our efforts throughout the whole of East Anglia. 

We are now going to hold several social events and tastings in March and April...
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