The Taste Adventure
Have you looked at your food really closely? Does your food always smell like it tastes? Which foods go crunch and which go slurp? Can you tell the difference between sweet, salty and bitter tastes?
There’s excitement in the tasting, sniffing and feel of food. The Taste Adventure, which is run by Slow Food UK in partnership with grainchain.com, aims to bring these sensations to life.
The Taste Adventure is an interactive way of introducing people to the use of all five senses when eating and enjoying food. The key message that we aim to convey is: ‘To really enjoy food we need to use all our five senses’ and in order to start the journey of a life-long love of food, we believe it is vital that everyone understands:
• how to appreciate food using each sense individually
• how each sense affects the others
• the basic elements of taste
• the difference between taste and flavour
The Taste Adventure is a simple yet fun activity aimed at four to 10 year olds but it is loved just as much by the big kids among us. It encourages children to think about food and takes them on an inspiring journey through five interactive zones, each with a focus on one of the five senses: taste, sight, touch, smell and sound.
Young Taste Adventurers are given a passport complete with fun food cartoon characters and are invited to collect stamps as they explore, interact and make new food discoveries.
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SFUK launched The Taste Adventure (TTA) at the Children’s Food Festival organised by the Northmoor Trust in South Oxfordshire in June 2010 and is becoming increasingly present at events across the country.
To find out more about The Taste Adventure please download our information pack here.
For all enquiries about The Taste Adventure, or to bring it to your local event, please contact:
Ed Billins
The Taste Adventure Coordinator
Email e.billins@slowfood.org.uk
Telephone +44 (0) 20 7099 1132
or
Rhonda Smith
Email r.smith@slowfood.org.uk
Telephone +44 (0) 20 7099 1132
TTA DATES
2009 :
June : Childrens Food Festival, Oxford
4th, 5th & 6th September : Worcester Feast
19th September : North Berwick Food Festival
24th & 25th October : Tastes of Herefordshire
2010 :
7th February : Seedy Sunday Brighton
12th March : Student Union, Brighton
20th March : Sheffield Museum
8th April : Country Tastic, Malvern
1st - 3rd May : Dales Festival of Food & Drink, North Yorks
20th June : Mini Magnalonga, Ludlow
23rd - 26th July: Big Tent Festival, Fife
31st July : Oxfordshire County Show
8th August : Festival of Food, Northcote
13th - 15th August : Flavour Fest, Plymouth
4th - 5th : Kirby Lonsdale Fork Fest
8th - 19th September: Start Initiative: 'A Garden Party to Make a Difference,' London
11th & 12th September : Berwick Food Festival
11th & 12th September : Harvest at Jimmy's, Suffolk
11th & 12th September : Eatbute, Isle of Bute
25th & 26th September : Stratford Upon Avon Food Festival
2nd October : Hurstpierpoint Food & Drink, Brighton
2nd October : Aylsham Food Festival
For a flavour of the event, we have a rough cut of video...
and some photos...
