The Slow Food movement's flagship event. 5 days, 1,000+ exhibitors, the most important food gathering in the world.
Plan your Italy trip →Organized by the Slow Food movement (founded in Piedmont in 1986), the Salone del Gusto is the world's largest artisan food fair. Over 1,000 exhibitors from 130+ countries: small producers, endangered food species, traditional techniques, indigenous ingredients. You taste things that exist nowhere else — cheese aged in caves, ancient grain bread, fermented products from isolated communities, honey from forests you've never heard of.
This isn't a food trade show. It's a political act — defending biodiversity, small producers, and food traditions against industrial agriculture. Carlo Petrini (Slow Food's founder) conceived it as a counterweight to fast food culture. The exhibitors are farmers, not corporations. The conversations are about saving food heritage, not selling products.
Everything. The Taste Workshops (Laboratori del Gusto, €10-15 for 45 min) are structured tastings guided by experts: Barolo vintages, Parmigiano Reggiano ages, olive oil varieties, chocolate origins. The market area has free tastings at every stand. You'll taste 50+ things in a day.
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