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Slow Food Market Bern

Last weekend there was the Slow Food Market in Bern. An exhibition of sustainable, fair and conscious enjoyment. This year Lisa and I visited this exhibition for the first time and discovered many interesting nutritions, merchants and inspiring pioneers of enjoyable diets. We didn’t want to keep our impressions only for us, but we wanted to share them with the Journey to Real Life community. That’s why we’ve documented our visit with photos and videos.

What is Slow Food?

Slow Food other than Fast Food is about a conscious and delicious nutrition. The international movement has made the defense of the right to food and the right to food sovereignty its aim. Sustainability and fair working conditions are important aspects. Today the organisation has over 100’000 members in at least 140 countries worldwide. The movement is committed to the preservation of biodiversity and has projects for the promotion of food sovereignty around the world. The members gather at social events in regional organizations.

Similar to Journey to Real Life, Slow Food connects enjoyment, food awareness and responsible consumption.

What is the Slow Food Market?

The slow food market is an exhibition which combines delicious and traditionally produced food producers with consumers. This gives the visitors the opportunity to experience, what Slow Food is. Events of this kind are a historic element of the slow food movement. The Salone del Gusto and Terra Madre in Torino is the role model for this event. In Switzerland in spring the Slow Food market takes place in Bern and in autumn it takes place in Zurich.

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Impressions

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Chocolate bars from Naturkostbar. Naturkostbar is a company which specializes in producing, gourmet raw food products in-house. This includes cold pressed oils, various candies and cocoa from the whole cocoa bean among other things. All products are produced in Switzerland.

The cocoa beans are imported by the company itself and peeled in-house. They are ground in a stone mill for 2 to 3 days. There is no roasting process. The final products are sweetened mostly with coconut blossom sugar. For some chocolate products, the merchant can exactly trace back which family has grown the used cocoa. All products from Naturkostbar are fair, vegan, organic and raw.

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There were also stands, which specialized in a single product, such as the saffron pictured in the image above from Premium Safran. Saffron is a slightly aromatic, flowery, sweet spice, which is extracted from the stamp holders of the plant crocus sativus. It’s primarily used as a spice in risotto and paella. It can also be used for desserts or pastries.

The saffron from Premium Safran is sourced from the Highlands in Khorasan Iran, where the tradition of Saffron cultivation has been maintained for many years. The company guarantees fair working conditions free of child labour through the direct business relationship with the producers of this high quality saffron.

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These intense pickled olives were amazing. Of course, we have bought a pack to enjoy them at home.

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Also freshly ground spices were to be found at the Slow Food Market.

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These sandwiches come from the family-run Linas vital shop in Lyss. The family bakes a vegan, organic whole wheat Plait from high quality pure spelt flour. Pure spelt is a designation for ancient spelt that has not been crossed with modern wheat. It’s particularly rich of minerals and grows in rather barren areas where conventional wheat wouldn’t grow. With the use of pure spelt biodiversity is promoted.

In addition to the high-quality bread offered at the exhibition, the family-owned company offers many more products for a sustainable life in their online-shop.

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Not an extraordinary type of pasta is produced here, but oil. At many stands, machines could be found which locally produced olive oil. It was exciting to get an insight in the production processes of the foods we consume daily.

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Everywhere, there were things to taste. At this stand, there were various roasted pumpkin seeds. In addition to the pure pumpkin seeds, there were salted, spiced and sweetened seeds.

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Bunaroba is a Swiss Super Foods retailer. In our interview, we learned that super foods are foods with a high nutrient density. They contain many vitamins, phytochemicals and essential fatty acids. Among other things, we tasted dried mulberries, dried range, raw cocoa nibs, coconut blossom sugar and hemp seeds.

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In the middle of the fairground, there were many organic wines and organic spirits booths, which offered their products for tasting.

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These edible flowers not only look beautiful, but taste very well as well. You can for example use it to spice up salads. In addition to the yellow flower mix, there was also another one with purple and blue tones.

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These organic citrus fruit chips come from the Sicilian producers Naturale è, which produce also delicious oils along with their tasty citrus products. I didn’t like them that much myself, but Lisa liked them a lot. They taste slightly bitter and refreshing at the same time.

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These are organic hazelnuts from Piedmont, which are imported in Switzerland from Liebando. They are considered the Rolls Royce of hazelnuts. They actually taste a lot better than the conventional hazelnuts. We tasted them peeled and very lightly roasted and salted as well as pure. Delicious!

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We tasted the Sapori spiceon freshly fried, warm Croûtons. It is however very versatile. For example you can cook bouillons and sauces or refine salads, pasta and potato dishes. You won’t find any yeast additions, granulated sugar or animal products in the ingredient list. Instead, the «Spice Fairy» consists of rock salt, dried vegetables, corn flour, dried apples, herbs, turmeric and sunflower oil.

We spent a wonderful afternoon at the Slow Food market in Bern and are looking forward to next year!

What are your experiences with Slow Food?

Cheers,
Prosper

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