Terra Madre 2008

La Casa dei Formaggi partecipated at the Terra Madre event held concurrently with Salone del Gusto in Torino from October 23 to 27-2008. The meeting brings together food communities, cooks, academics and youth delegates for four days to work towards increasing small-scale, traditional, and sustainable food production. There were 20 cheesemakers representing the USA from Indiana, Connecticut, California, Oregon, Vermont, North Carolina, Illinois, Ohio, Virginia, Georgia, Alabama, Michigan, Texas and Wisconsin. These cheeses are part of the American Raw Milk Cheese Presidium, designed to help protect endangered American raw milk cheeses and to encourage their production while adhering to a protocol consistent with the values of Slow Food.