Slow Food Marketplace and Book Club
Winter is a great time to embrace the Slow Life. In August we have the Slow Food Marketplace @AUT, and in September our Quarterly Book Club. You’re warmly invited to both — and do check out the AUT Culinary Arts and Gastronomy Winter Series, running 10–14 August.
Slow Food Marketplace at AUT October 7th 2025
Put October 7th in your diary. Shop at the Slow Food Marketplace at AUT. Support our local artisans and food producers including A Lady Butcher, Earthbound Honey Ltd. Sustainable Artisan Beekeepers, Kings Eat Organics, Te Atatu Toasted, Koko Beans, WholoFoods,...
A Good, Clean, Fair Slow Marketplace @AUT
Delicious single source chocolate, local honey, heritage tomatoes, Indian snacks and Middle Eastern cakes were the stars as students, staff and the local city community got to experience a Slow Food Market during the AUT Winter Series. To celebrate urban food...
Our ancestral dinner – a sweet night
What a fun evening! Our ancestral dinner turned into an around-the-world buffet, with tasty childhood dishes from right here in NZ and Australia to European delicacies and American comfort food. Perhaps best of all however was sharing our stories and the memories that...
Celebrating Matariki 2023 in Aotearoa
Last weekend, Slow Food Auckland gathered to ascend Maungawhau / Mount Eden. Dane Tumahai (Ngāti Whātua Ōrākei) shared creation stories, talked to the significance of the Matariki stars, and identified native plants and their uses. The mountain was once a significant...
Just Like Nonna’s – Pasta Rules
Most of us know there are rules to be followed if we want to make beautiful pasta. For the collaboration between Pasta e Cuore, Kelmarna Gardens and Slow Food Auckland we got to learn some of them from the amazing chef Stefania Ugolini of Pasta e Cuore. Stefania...
Terra Madre Day Pot Luck – Korero and Kai 2023
Slow Food Tamaki Makaurau kicked off the holiday season by celebrating Terra Madre Day in collaboration with Pacific Food Lab Aotearoa and AUT’s Master of Gastronomy students. Pacific Food Lab is a non-profit dedicated to bolstering resilient and sustainable food systems in Aotearoa and the Pacific. We have worked in conjunction with AUT to support community initiatives and education revolving around growing, cooking, and eating local food. It was an afternoon of conviviality and commensality, gathering around food with friends over an alfresco potluck accented by Snail of Approval food.
Celebrating Matariki 2023 in Aotearoa
Last weekend, Slow Food Auckland gathered to ascend Maungawhau / Mount Eden. Dane Tumahai (Ngāti Whātua Ōrākei) shared creation stories, talked to the significance of the Matariki stars, and identified native plants and their uses. The mountain was once a significant...
Summer Sharing and Celebration
On Terra Madre Day, the Slow Food network is invited to organise local actions and events to celebrate the diversity of our food identities and cultures and to hold on to them against the ongoing commodification and standardisation of food. Sharing was the at the...