Festival in Neuhaus

Coveted Slow Food badge for Jauntaler Hadn

The Jauntaler Hadn receives the Slow Food "Presidi" badge.

(Bild: Kärnten Werbung)

Slow Food now inspires 160 countries. Today, Neuhaus becomes the twelfth municipality in Carinthia to join the Slow Food Villages. The famous Hadn even receives the "Presidi" award. And Astrid Steharnig-Staudinger, Head of Austrian National Tourist Office, travels here for a "home game".

Agriculture and nature - village life has always been characterized by this. The Slow Food diet and eating culture picks up on this in 160 countries. Today, Neuhaus is the twelfth Slow Food Village in Carinthia and the Jauntaler Hadn is certified as a protected good. Ten producers and three innkeepers from Neuhaus are now members of the Slow Food Association, making them part of a global brand.

Astrid Steharnig-Staudinger, the head of Österreich Werbung, is from Schwabegg.

(Bild: Pamela Rußmann)

Austria's top tourism lady, Österreich Werbung boss Astrid Steharnig-Staudinger, is also traveling to the Slow Food Festival. It will be a "home game" for her. "She even comes from Neuhaus and grew up in Schwabegg at Gasthof Luckner-Steharnig," says Slow Food pioneer Gottfried Bachler. The Hadnwirt is well-known, Hadn is a gluten-free and healthy power grain. It is processed in the region and even has its own Hadn mill. Astrid Steharnig-Staudinger knows the production process well. Hadn is the fourth Carinthian product to be classified as a "Slow Food Presidi" and is therefore protected worldwide. "The other three flagship products are Lesachtal bread, Kletze and Krainer Steinschaf," says Bachler.

 "From September 26, Slow Food will be hosting the 'Terra Madre' trade fair in Turin, which will attract 1.5 million people over six days," says Bachler. "We are also traveling."