Cheese lovers celebrated cheese during a four day event in Bra

Cheese 2015 is just concluded. It has been a successful edition attended by over 270,000 visitors in 3 days, from 18th to 21th of September. Bra, in the province of Cuneo, has held this international celebration. It has hosted over 300 exhibitors from 23 countries by promoting opportunities for education and entertainment, inspired by Slow Food values.

This year’s event theme was focused on the mountain’s ecosystems related to cheesemakers. In the last fifty years many traditional cheesemaking activities have been stopped and pastures have been abandoned, with a lack of transmission of precious knowledge. So it seems urgent to protect the extraordinary biodiversity (of ecosystems, plant varieties, animal species, food and culture) found in the world’s mountain areas.

But fortunately the mountains are still home to an incredible heritage of cheeses produced by artisanal techniques and the use of freshly milked raw milk. Products of extraordinary quality are the result of this process that involved the practice of transhumance (season migration to summer pastures).

 

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The Biodiversity Piazza is the place where visitors could taste mountain products from around the world. They have found cheeses, honey, vegetables and fruit, legumes and wild herbs grown on mountainsides all over the world: from the Andes to the Caucasus, via the Pyrenees, the Alps and the Apennines. Also a team of Slow Food network chefs prepared specialities associated with mountain traditions.

 

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Cheese 2015 offered an awareness and responsibility towards the related issues, such as animal welfare, sustainable management of landscapes, milk quotas and so on. Moreover it has represented a moment to bring together this consciousness with idea related to promote the pleasure of good food, based on taste and knowledge.

 

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Visitors could find food for thought through many places scattered in the city. Cheese Market, Pizza Piazza and Beer Piazza have hosted conferences, the milk workshop program, master of food and educational activities for children. Furthermore street food stand and food trucks prepared gastronomic recipes from all Italian districts. Among those we have chosen an appetizing snack from Puglia. “Quelli della Bombetta” stand has cooked its speciality: seasoned pork wrapped around a piece of Canestrato cheese and grilled.

Waiting for next year event to try this tasty preparation and new cheesemakers culinary delights, have a look to our handmade collection of slate platters and cheese boards, made out of slate, wood or resin to add glam to any cheese-based aperitif!

 

Ardesia and Red Slates

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