Cooperativa Beniamino & Slow Food Elba e Capraia

Progetto Taste of Freedom

Presso la Casa di Reclusione di Porto

Azzurro – Isola d’Elba

Settembre 2014 –Febbraio 2015

Cooperativa Beniamino & Slow Food Elba e Capraia

From September to Febraury: We made 7 meetings with inmates of Porto Azzurro.

We also worked with their educators to decide how to continue our project.

We decided to make some meetings to choose the recipies and to meet the farmers.

Now we have 23 inmates at the meetings!!!!!

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1st meeting: 9 October 20141. Report for the inmates of the meeting held in Turkey;

We brought the printed material to show him as in other prisons were playing the project

We talked about the turkish food and our experience.The prisoners were very happy to see us after our visit in Turkey, they asked a lots of questions. We promise that we would brind to them the little present (Pastry) that we could not give to them now as we

had not received the ok from the prison authority,some of them where a bit upset.

2. Choice of the logo of the project

3. We project the future meetings to choose the recipes for the “e-book” , with the layout that is required ..

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2nd meeting: 16 October 2014

1. We presented to the inmates our intention to invite at the meeting some producers and farmers of the island. The local producers that we will bring with us have vegetables, Olive oli, Honey, Marmalade.2. We chose 10 recipes of Elba with the inmates (2 starters, 3 first dishes, 3 second dishes, 2 desserts) that they will prepare for all of us. They will change the typical recipes with some idea form their land of origin (fusion cuisine).3. We tasted the typical Turkish sweets that we had bought for them, and Carlo talked with them about the use of spices and dried fruit in Turkish cuisine.

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3rd meeting: 20 November 2014We had a very interesting day as the

President of the Agricultural Union of Elba came to talk about the Olive oil and

Honey.

We had olive oil and some good bread and we tasted 3 kind of oil. The producer

talked about the process to make olive oiland something about the olive cultivation.

We taste also 3 kind ok honey thatanother producer has given us.

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The prisoner asked many questions showing great interest and looking

forward to the next meeting, with other producer.

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4th meeting: 4 December 2014

Today we have a Local producer of Fruit andVegetable who will talk about the problems theyhave to keep the Market going considering thedifferent number of population betweenSummer and Winter.

Was a very good meeting, the Prisoner asked alots of questions, and each one of them had hissolution to the problems.

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5th meeting: 11 December 2014

The prisoners made some cake, we also broughtsome local cake. It was an interesting morningcomparying the different recipes, and thereasons for it.We also discussed the next event wich will takeplace in the month of January 2015. We willbring the ingredients and the prisoners will cookin their cells, and then bring the food to theclass-room, that we will arrange, for the event,as we have done before.

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12 January 2015

We participated in a meeting organized bythe prison for planning activities during2015. There were many

associations and we

have submitted the

next steps of the

project Taste of Freedom.

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6th meeting: 15 January 2015

We could not bring the ingredients for theprisoner as we did not get permission from theDirector of the prison for some burocraticreasons,we will do it next week,in the meantimewe changed few recipe,we informed theprisoners and we are all looking forward to nextweek.

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7th meeting: 22 January 2015

We had a great day to day the dishes made by theprisoner are fantastic ,well made, very good, it wasa very good morning, and as we can see from thephoto we took.It is incredible what theycould do without aproper facility, never theless they did afantastic job, well done.

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Rachele e Carlo organized the lunch in prison

and they have aeten with them

Sea Salad with octopus, mussels,

clams…..

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Meat rolls with bacon

pinenuts and raisins

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Cooperativa Beniamino & Slow Food Elba e Capraia

Dissemination plan1. traveling exhibition of the project in the school of Marina di Campo

2. Traveling exhibition inside the “area of the prison” of Porto Azzurro

1. Traveling exhibition in the citadel of Porto Azzurro prison to allow schools to visit the exhibition

All traveling exhibitions can be prepared by prisoners and described by Carlo and Rachele

4. Traveling exhibition inside the 8 City Hall of Elba in accord with the 8 mayors. Also in this case, the prisoners can prepared the exhibition and

Carlo and Rachele would do as a guides for citizens and schools

5. Meeting with the press to present te traveling exhibition.