Announcement of a contest for the carrying out of a research study on the consumption of wine in emerging nations

Slow Food Editore and Slow Food Promozione announce a contest open to students enrolled, during academic year 2013/2014, in the 3-year Degree Course in Gastronomic Sciences or the 5-year Degree Course in Promotion and Management of the Gastronomic and Tourism Heritage, or the Masters courses offered by the University of Gastronomic Sciences. The object of the contest is … …read more

Alex Atala – Defying Outdated Mindets

 Picture by Yehonatan Nimrod Alex Atala, the famous Brazilian Chef who’s restaurant D.O.M is currently listed as the 6th best Restaurant in the world, spoke at a special conference that took place at the University of Gastronomic Sciences this Thursday December 5 at 4 pm. Following the conference, Atala hosted a creative dinner at the … …read more

Alex Atala – Defying Outdated Mindets

 Picture by Yehonatan Nimrod Alex Atala, the famous Brazilian Chef who’s restaurant D.O.M is currently listed as the 6th best Restaurant in the world, spoke at a special conference that took place at the University of Gastronomic Sciences this Thursday December 5 at 4 pm. Following the conference, Atala hosted a creative dinner at the … …read more

A new Cookery School in Pollenzo: courses for lovers of learning and food

The Pollenzo Cookery School, developed by the University of Gastronomic Sciences in collaboration with Slow Food, will offer two one-year Italian cookery courses: in Italian: June 2014 – June 2015 in English: September 2014 – September 2015   Each course will be open to a maximum of 20 students and will be taught in the … …read more

Alex Atala: the chef who cooks Amazonian

  At 4pm on Thursday December 5 in the Sala Rossa in Pollenzo, the Brazilian chef, ranked by Time Magazine as one of the 100 most influential people in the world in 2013, will give a talk on “D.O.M. The rediscovery of Brazilian ingredients”. And on Thursday December 5 a unique dinner of his recipes will … …read more

UNISG Overseas Destinations

Final-year students on the three-year undergraduate degree course are flying to Canada, the United States, Japan, Argentina, Mexico and, for the first time, Israel. Here’s a foretaste of where they’ll be going and what they’ll be seeing on the seven study trips.

Friday October 25, at 4pm: Ferran Adrià meets the UNISG students

If there’s a chef who has shifted the boundaries and the forms of contemporary gastronomy, that chef is Ferran Adrià. Everything possible has been written and said about him in the international media, so anything we might add risks appearing superfluous. All we can say is – to cite the claim of the El Bulli Foundation, … …read more

“Food is culture, take care of it” – Gilberto Gil

Gilberto Gil, former Minister of Culture in Brazil for Lula’s government had a Conference on October 16 to the University of Gastronomic Sciences. Introduced by the University’s President, Carlo Petrini, who affirmed that very few people could make such a difference in their countries and remain simple and humble.