Sagraitalia with Slow Food London and Norwich held the Libera Terra evening at the Market Quarter in Belgravia, London last Thursday.
Alistair Cameron kindly let us use this great venue to hold our second Libera Terra evening in London and the evening proved to be very popular and the food and wine were well received by all who came on the night. Among the guests were several Italians now living in London who had links with the Libera Terra movement in Italy and it was excellent to hear about ...
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Sagraitalia was involved in organising an Italian Sagra evening at Creake Abbey Barns in north west Norfolk last Friday night and it proved to be a popular event with nearly 80 guests present that evening.
A Sagra is an Italian food and drink event normally based around one type of food or drink and normally each village and town has a different food theme, such as a particular type of food or drink, lamb, pork, mussels, beer etc.


 
Anna Mosesson the well known chef who now lives mainly in Italy...
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Sagraitalia along with Olivaverde will be holding tastings of Italian and Maltese olive oils in London, Norwich and Kings Lynn in the summer and autumn of 2011. The first is to be held in Belgravia in early May possibly with the co operation of Slow Food London, with the following workshop to be held in Norwich in the last week of May.

The olive oils will come from the Le Marche, Umbria, Tuscany, Puglia and Abruzzo regions of Italy and from the Island of Gozo which is part of the Maltese Islan...
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We are all excited to be going to the Slow wine event in Victoria, London on March 11th and we are planning to hold a small party later that evening for some of the exhibitors and members of Slow Food.

Our next wine tasting date has now been confirmed and it is being held at The Market Quarter in Belgravia, London, SW1 on Tuesday 29th March from 6.30 til 9pm. Ticket prices are to be confirmed soon and the wines being tasted are a selection of white wines from Le Marche and possibly also from A...
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The Sagra at the Forum in Norwich is now on Saturday 16th April and will be held in Theatre plain next the to main Forum  building.
Several local Norfolk food producers will have stalls there as well as a small number of Italian Artisan farmers with their Olive oil and pasta from the Le Marche, Umbria and Basilicata regions of Italy.
Browns earth shop near Swaffham will also be present at this event and this will be the start of an exciting year of shows and events for this new venture.

Browns E...
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Sagraitalia has had a busy few months and has in the past few weeks we have finally managed to arrange some dates for events in the first few months of 2011.
The first which will be held again at the same venue in Hackney E8, London is in March at the Studio in Well Street. Over the past months the studio has been undergoing some renovation work and once all the planned work is finished it will be an even better venue for our parties and tastings. Our host at the Studio has great plans for the...
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It has been a busy few weeks for us at Sagraitalia and at last we are in a position to start booking venues for our exciting Autumn and Winter food and Italian events in London and eastern England.  In early October there will be an Italian style Festa and Sagra in Hackney in east London and this has already roused a lot of interest from local residents and businesses as well as our many friends who wish to attend.

Next spring there will be the opening of Browns Earth Shop and Farmers Market i...
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