Bord Bia to sponsor world’s first University of Gastronomic Sciences

BORD BIA is to sponsor the world’s first University of Gastronomic Sciences to be established in Italy by the Slow Food movement, which has more than 80,000 consumers in 50 countries.

The movement was founded in Italy in 1989 to protect the right to taste by encouraging local people, councils and regional organisations to band together to support local food producers.

It has succeeded in helping to preserve the individual identity of regional foods, methods of agriculture and the local environment. The new university curriculum will include a stage programme on the science, nutrition, history, culture and gastronomy of Irish food. Bord Bia said the sponsorship will give it unique access to the next generation of opinion forming food media and influencers internationally and is an investment in the future of the Irish food and drink industry.