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| Slow Food Foundation for Biodiversity |
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17/10/2008 |
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Dry and Dried Fruit
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The Slow Food Foundation for Biodiversity and the “Developing Countries” working group of the Italian Society of Horticulture (SOI), have a shared commitment to increasing public knowledge of biodiversity and are working to set up an exhibition on Dry and Dried Fruit, for the third edition of Terra Madre (Turin, October 23-27, 2008).
It will be an opportunity for people to learn about varieties of walnuts, hazelnuts, almonds, cashew nuts, barù, pecan, macadamia nuts, pine nuts, pistacchios, dates and many other types of fruit from many geographical areas of the world.
There is a reason for choosing this type of product since dry fruit is strongly identified with local communities. It is an expression of cultural traditions and traditional cultivation and processing methods which still survive today.
This exhibition will illustrate the work of African, Asian and South American communities in their efforts to benefit from their local area and ecotypes while maintaining their processing methods.
The development of simple and inexpensive methods—such as drying—has facilitated the spread of fruit varieties which have played an important role in the history of food and they are now an essential source of income and support for people living in less industrialized countries.
The exhibition will use material from a number of developing countries which are enthusiastically involved in the initiative.
This will also be an appropriate occasion to present the new Heritage Almond Varieties Presidium (Uzbekistan). Cultivated in small villages, and an essential part of Uzbek diet, Bostalyk almonds are at risk due to particularly difficult growing conditions and the agricultural methods used.
For information about the exhibition, contact: exhibition2008@unipa.it
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