CATHERINE GAZZOLI IS NAMED ONE OF BRITAIN’S MOST INSPIRING FOODIE LADIES
Catherine Gazzoli is the CEO of Slow Food UK.
In a recent channel 4 feature Catherine Gazzoli has been included in a list of ‘Britain’s most inspiring foodie ladies’.
Slow Food is an environmentally and socially focussed initiative which is committed to ensure good, clean and fair food is a right for everyone.
Gazzoli works hard to make certain that their food tastes good, is produced in a clean way which fully respects the environment, human health and animal welfare, and that the food producers are paid a fair wage for their work.
Slow Food UK produce their projects by working closely with grassroots volunteer members convened in over sixty member groups around the country.
The company work hard to raise awareness of the importance of sustainability and social justice issues surrounding the food industry.
Slow Food run a number of projects to get their message across, including:
The Taste Adventure: This interactive event has been designed to educate children on the use of the five senses when they eat and enjoy good food. This event took place this year in South Oxfordshire in June.
Slow Food on Campus: This project offers students the opportunity to influence the direction of food systems in their Universities or higher education establishments.
Slow Food Baby: This project demonstrates how real food builds bodies, brains and community by providing parents with the relevant tools and practical knowledge that can help and encourage them bring real food into their homes.
Slow Food Wisdom: The aim of the project is to rediscover the food traditions that make up a vital part of our cultural inheritance, and to create opportunities and means to pass them on.
In a recent interview Gazzoli said that:
“The food industry is only a man’s game if we let it be. And we aren’t letting that happen.
We now have some extremely well respected female chefs, producers and food business entrepreneurs who are leading their in respective fields.”
She continues:
There are perceptions that a woman chief executive can’t demonstrate, when needed, more male attributed characteristics in a leadership position like mine.
People also gave me a hard time about throwing myself so much into getting the job done and being happy to give up everything else for a time. In a man, that would have been seen as expected.”
Slow Food UK are incredibly enthusiastic about the work they do and the events they run, and it is clear that Gazzoli’s passion for the food industry and her part as a women within it reflect in the companies success.
To visit Slow Food UK’s website click here to find out more.
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