Summary:
more-inMore than 300 adivasis participated in a festival in the Nilgiris that celebrated traditional slow food with a ‘back to the roots’ message. The ‘wild foods and slow foods’ on show provided a glimpse of the culinary traditions of indigenous communities at the Keystone Foundation campus in Kotagiri on Monday. Local communities from the three southern States got to work on recipes that included sweets, salty snacks and other staples. Slow food, Mr.
Pratim Roy said, is sourced locally, provides a fair price to producers and is sustainable. Wild foods and the slow food movement have a common goal, which is mainly to get local communities and the general public to return to their older, more sustainable and healthy eating habits..