According to the Slow Food philosophy

 

What is the Slow Food "Community of Food"?


The concept of food community is understood as a group of producers and processors who, historically linked to their territory, quality linked to a single work philosophy, ensuring production to the indigenous, respect for planetary and environmental sustainability.

 

Slow Food Alberobello,  the conduct of the south-east of Bari which encompasses the town of Alberobello, Locorotondo, Putignano and Turi, after a careful analysis of the historical, agri-food and food and wine context, has embarked on the path of enhancing one of the representative elements of the Putignanese context "La Farinella "and in the context of the operational planning for the four-year period 2018-2022, it aims to enhance it, promote it and recover it after having already included it in the Arca dei Gusto (Ark of Taste) of Slow Food, precisely through the concept of the Food Community. The Food Community, called "Comunità della Farinella di Putignano", brings together small local farmers, millers, but also small traders and large producers who act and are committed to act, produce, market, following the Slow Food perspective, truly aware of the human, social, but also and above all economic importance of this approach.

The choice of the constitution of the food community on 21 April 2018 is not accidental, in fact, it coincides with the theme of the Slow Food Day 2018, dedicated this year to ancient flours and grains, under the motto Let's put a future on the table best, and it is an opportunity to deepen our knowledge of the varieties of flours, from how they are ground and mixed to the best uses in the kitchen.