When you have a country as huge as Brazil with uncountable amounts of raw materials coming from every corner of its land if you work or have some connection in the food industry you have the responsability of showing the world what, who and how it keeps it going.
Food Forum is one of this vehicles.
On its second edition this year, they gathered a line of talented speakers, each and everyone with their own stories, battles, ups & downs, victories, losses and success.
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- standing ovation!!
Sadly brazilian government likes to make it harder and that was one of the issues strongly discussed by the speakers when saying that giving up is not an option so their battles just gets more challenging if not complicated.
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- Roberta Sudbrack and Eliane take on Food Forum stage to talk about how her last coversation with her grandmother, mother, saviour Iracema was a landmark in her life. Eliane in the mean time cooked live a “goibada no tacho” as the mineiros do!
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- while Roberta gave her opening talk the public was invaded by the smell of a live goibada no tacho cooking session
I mean, if you are a just a tiny bit literated about brazilian food, the real brazilian food that’s to say, you know that they have ingredients most chefs around the world would dream to have in their own kitchen everyday, every season.
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- Joop introducing his immigrant family
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- A Boa Terra
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- Dutch born and brazilian by adoption Tini Schoenmaker & Joop Stoltenborg became organic farmers just outside São Paulo 50 years ago.
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- Spraying agrotoxic on a plate of salad and vegetables
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- “Would you eat this plate of salad and vegetables now?”
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- standing ovation!!
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- a poem dedicated to earth
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- It was one of the most touching, up close and personal talks! Beautiful!
A few chefs took that international step in promoting our culture but also proudly belongs to a very special crowd of people that makes it happen right there and than inland.
Local farmers, those that put their hands on soil everyday to feel their harverst. Small, or not so small realities of organizations built by people that grew up with some sort of food and rural influence at home, cooks, chefs, bakers, nutritionist, restaurateurs.
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- Ana Luiza is one of the most down to earth ladies in the brazilian food scenery. She is a renown brazilian food researcher and President at Instituto Brasil a gosto.
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- biscoitos de polvilho baked by Ana
Their names and actions speak form themselves. So they are here to protect, defend what Brazil has as most precious. Their origins.
American jornalist Michael Moss was sranded in NYC due to snow storm but he was there with his registered talk and the audience loved it!
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- Daniela Leite & her project “Comida Invisivel”
Just last week an old story came back in the picture regarding agrotoxics. Did you know that 70% of brazilian production is touched by some sort of agrotoxic?
There is a huge lobby in the senate as 44% of deputies are members of bancada ruralista making them related to Frente Parlamentar Agropecoária. In other words they play the interest of big coorporations that sell toxic products.
Project 6.299/2002 was created to protect the health and integrity of food production (“Lei do Alimento Mais Seguro”) back in 2002 and has since been “seating” on senate’s “to be discussed and voted” files. However the return in the news was not in a positive light as lobbists are arranging to vote in favor of, yet one more new projetc created to put it down the one on stanby.
There has been an immense noise on social media where posts with protets came flooding in.
They are all waiting to see what will come out of it.
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- Nutrinionist Sophie Deram
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- Sophie talks about the pleasures of eating without guilt. She is the author of “O pesa dos dietas”
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- Ivan talks about him being a hispter chef and how important excellence of brazilian ingredients are for his minimalis menu.
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- His platings are a work of art
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- Chef Ivan Raslton on Food Forum
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- Chef Ivan Raslton
In the mean time people like these guys here will carry on their outstanding work to protect and promote brazilian food culture inland and abroad.
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- Musician & partner at Aprazivel restaurant João Hermeto talks about his creative life, parethood and working with family.
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- Musician & partner at Aprazivel restaurant João Hermeto talks about his creative life, parethood and working with family.
A great audience, speakers and guests.
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- Speakers that become audience
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- Food Forum
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- Barilla food truck for hungry peeps during breaks
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- Pronto Light CEO team ready to take on stage
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- breadmaker Luis Americo Camargo sharing the importance of his bread having its own rythm
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- Cook Lis Cereja with her talk “What is health?”
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- A Boa Terra farmers Tini Schoenmaker & Joop Stoltenborg
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- tasting the goibada
Last but not least an immense bravo to Food Forum dream team under Charles Piriou & Ailin Aleixo guidance!
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- Ailin during her talk with Charles
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- Charles timing with his talk partner Ailin Aleixo
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- Food Forum dream team at the end of a very mind blowing day!
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- honored!
Photo Credits: Food Forum & Marcela Senise
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Food Forum
Charles Piriou
Ailin Leixo
Roberta Sudbrack
Eliane Casa da Li
A Boa Terra
Sophie Deram
Restaurante Aprazivel
Ana Luiza Trajano
Daniela Leita
Pronto Light
Lis Cereja
Tuju Restaurante
In the restaurant business everything started when he became the manager at Terence Conran’s Neal Street Restaurant in Covent Garden. He married Conran’s sister. The rest is history.
Absolutely worth the drive around the countryside to reach them. If you are coming from or going towards Siena, San Gimignano make sure to include this stop on your trip. Check opening hours as they don’t work on weekends.
