BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//Slow Food Russian River - ECPv6.16.1//NONSGML v1.0//EN CALSCALE:GREGORIAN METHOD:PUBLISH X-ORIGINAL-URL:https://www.oldsf.bmkt.net X-WR-CALDESC:Events for Slow Food Russian River REFRESH-INTERVAL;VALUE=DURATION:PT1H X-Robots-Tag:noindex X-PUBLISHED-TTL:PT1H BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:America/Los_Angeles BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0800 TZOFFSETTO:-0700 TZNAME:PDT DTSTART:20170312T100000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0700 TZOFFSETTO:-0800 TZNAME:PST DTSTART:20171105T090000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0800 TZOFFSETTO:-0700 TZNAME:PDT DTSTART:20180311T100000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0700 TZOFFSETTO:-0800 TZNAME:PST DTSTART:20181104T090000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0800 TZOFFSETTO:-0700 TZNAME:PDT DTSTART:20190310T100000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0700 TZOFFSETTO:-0800 TZNAME:PST DTSTART:20191103T090000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0800 TZOFFSETTO:-0700 TZNAME:PDT DTSTART:20200308T100000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0700 TZOFFSETTO:-0800 TZNAME:PST DTSTART:20201101T090000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0800 TZOFFSETTO:-0700 TZNAME:PDT DTSTART:20210314T100000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0700 TZOFFSETTO:-0800 TZNAME:PST DTSTART:20211107T090000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0800 TZOFFSETTO:-0700 TZNAME:PDT DTSTART:20220313T100000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0700 TZOFFSETTO:-0800 TZNAME:PST DTSTART:20221106T090000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0800 TZOFFSETTO:-0700 TZNAME:PDT DTSTART:20230312T100000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0700 TZOFFSETTO:-0800 TZNAME:PST DTSTART:20231105T090000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0800 TZOFFSETTO:-0700 TZNAME:PDT DTSTART:20240310T100000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0700 TZOFFSETTO:-0800 TZNAME:PST DTSTART:20241103T090000 END:STANDARD END:VTIMEZONE BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20231210T153000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20231210T183000 DTSTAMP:20260513T044920 CREATED:20231204T200650Z LAST-MODIFIED:20231204T200650Z UID:9592-1702222200-1702233000@www.oldsf.bmkt.net SUMMARY:Terra Madre 2023 Holiday Party DESCRIPTION:Come to our Holiday Party \nSunday\, December 10\, 2023\n3:30 – 6:30 pm \nDonation is suggested to benefit programs of Slow Food Russian River \nThe location will be revealed when you \nRSVP \nWe will provide hot cider\, punch\, and some other beverages \nPlease bring: \nSavory or sweet finger food to share… It’s a chance to use a family recipe\, emphasizing local seasonal ingredients\nYour favorite beverage\nHomemade cookies (optional) in dozens for a cookie exchange to share at the party or to give forward to friends and family during this holiday season\, celebrating the diversity of our food heritages\n\nNOTE: Limited to 40 adults URL:https://www.oldsf.bmkt.net/event/terra-madre-2023-holiday-party/ ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://www.oldsf.bmkt.net/wp/wp-content/uploads/2023/12/2023-holiday-party-eventbrite.jpeg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20231108T170000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20231108T190000 DTSTAMP:20260513T044920 CREATED:20231021T205637Z LAST-MODIFIED:20231021T205714Z UID:9561-1699462800-1699470000@www.oldsf.bmkt.net SUMMARY:Fall Community Get-Together DESCRIPTION:Happy Hour prices during the entire event.\n$10 donation to benefit programs of Slow Food Russian River\nGolden State Cider Taproom\, at The Barlow\n180 Morris Street\, Suite 150\, ​Sebastopol\, CA 95472\nCome and meet the Board of SFRR\, and other members\, or just join in the fun!\nNOTE: Limited to 135 adults.\nPlease RSVP as soon as possible! info@slowfoodrr.org \nDuskie Estes of Farm to Pantry will talk about the community apple cider that Golden State Cider is making\, and about the food banks of Sonoma County using the apples that Farm to Pantry gleans from local orchards.\nGolden State Cider will talk about how they are working to help keep small orchards in Sebastopol and the surrounding area. URL:https://www.oldsf.bmkt.net/event/2023-fall-community-get-together/ LOCATION:Golden State Cider Taproom\, 180 Morris St #150\, Sebastopol\, CA\, 95472\, United States ORGANIZER;CN="Slow Food Russian River":MAILTO:russianriverca@slowfoodusa.org END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200308T120000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200308T140000 DTSTAMP:20260513T044920 CREATED:20200301T160841Z LAST-MODIFIED:20200301T161237Z UID:8894-1583668800-1583676000@www.oldsf.bmkt.net SUMMARY:Annual Members Meeting 2020 DESCRIPTION:[vc_row type=”in_container” full_screen_row_position=”middle” scene_position=”center” text_color=”dark” text_align=”left” overlay_strength=”0.3″ shape_divider_position=”bottom” bg_image_animation=”none”][vc_column column_padding=”no-extra-padding” column_padding_position=”all” background_color_opacity=”1″ background_hover_color_opacity=”1″ column_link_target=”_self” column_shadow=”none” column_border_radius=”none” width=”1/1″ tablet_width_inherit=”default” tablet_text_alignment=”default” phone_text_alignment=”default” column_border_width=”none” column_border_style=”solid” bg_image_animation=”none”][vc_column_text]On Sunday\, March 8th\, we’ll meet for Good\, Clean\, and Fair food\, drink\, and discussion for the future of Slow Food Russian River.[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row type=”in_container” full_screen_row_position=”middle” scene_position=”center” text_color=”dark” text_align=”left” overlay_strength=”0.3″ shape_divider_position=”bottom” bg_image_animation=”none”][vc_column column_padding=”no-extra-padding” column_padding_position=”all” background_color_opacity=”1″ background_hover_color_opacity=”1″ column_link_target=”_self” column_shadow=”none” column_border_radius=”none” width=”1/1″ tablet_width_inherit=”default” tablet_text_alignment=”default” phone_text_alignment=”default” column_border_width=”none” column_border_style=”solid” bg_image_animation=”none”][vc_column_text]\n \n[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row type=”in_container” full_screen_row_position=”middle” scene_position=”center” text_color=”dark” text_align=”left” overlay_strength=”0.3″ shape_divider_position=”bottom” bg_image_animation=”none”][vc_column column_padding=”no-extra-padding” column_padding_position=”all” background_color_opacity=”1″ background_hover_color_opacity=”1″ column_link_target=”_self” column_shadow=”none” column_border_radius=”none” width=”1/1″ tablet_width_inherit=”default” tablet_text_alignment=”default” phone_text_alignment=”default” column_border_width=”none” column_border_style=”solid” bg_image_animation=”none”][vc_column_text]Please join us on Sunday\, March 8th for an afternoon of Good\, Clean\, and Fair food\, drink\, and discussion to drive the future of Slow Food Russian River. \nWhile we enjoy breaking bread with you this time each year\, this meeting is about much more than just catching up. Now more than ever\, we need your ideas\, expertise\, enthusiasm\, and elbow grease to translate our vision of a more equitable\, inclusive\, and just food system into a reality. \nWe invite you to take a seat at the table and help set our intentions for our chapter in 2020 and beyond. \nA main course will be provided but in our tradition of sharing\, we invite you to bring an appetizer\, beverage\, or dessert to share potluck-style. We also ask that you bring your own cutlery\, glass\, and place setting. \nRSVPs are required for this free event\, so please let us know if you can join us. \nStay tuned for more details\, and we look forward to seeing you there.[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row] URL:https://www.oldsf.bmkt.net/event/annual-members-meeting-2020/ CATEGORIES:Annual Meeting ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://www.oldsf.bmkt.net/wp/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/Annual-Members-Meeting-2020.jpeg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20191210T180000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20191210T203000 DTSTAMP:20260513T044920 CREATED:20191205T023914Z LAST-MODIFIED:20191205T025602Z UID:8824-1576000800-1576009800@www.oldsf.bmkt.net SUMMARY:Celebrate Terra Madre Day and 30 years of Slow Food DESCRIPTION:[vc_row type=”in_container” full_screen_row_position=”middle” scene_position=”center” text_color=”dark” text_align=”left” overlay_strength=”0.3″ shape_divider_position=”bottom” bg_image_animation=”none”][vc_column column_padding=”no-extra-padding” column_padding_position=”all” background_color_opacity=”1″ background_hover_color_opacity=”1″ column_link_target=”_self” column_shadow=”none” column_border_radius=”none” width=”1/1″ tablet_width_inherit=”default” tablet_text_alignment=”default” phone_text_alignment=”default” column_border_width=”none” column_border_style=”solid” bg_image_animation=”none”][vc_column_text]Tuesday\, December 10\, 2019  marks 30 years of Slow Food! We call our birthday Terra Madre Day and this year it’s very special \nThirty years have passed since the weekend in December 1989 when delegates from 15 countries met in Paris to sign the Slow Food Manifesto. (An updated version here) This moment formalized the birth of the international Slow Food movement\, until then solely Italian. Today the Slow Food flag flies in 160 countries around the world and the movement embraces over a million members\, volunteers and activists. (More…) \nJoin us to celebrate this milestone\, as well as Terra Madre Day\, on December 10th at the Golden State Cider Taproom in the Barlow. \nEnjoy cider\, Slow Food stories\, and pizza from the Snail of Approval food truck Red Horse. And of course\, don’t forget to spread the holiday cheer by bringing your own batch for our annual cookie swap. We will also be honoring our SFRR leaders\, past and present\, who have made an impact on the Sonoma County food system. (Other key documents here) \nGolden State Cider Taproom\nat the Barlow\, Sebastopol\n6:00 – 8:30 pm\nTickets are required for this event\, so be sure to reserve yours ASAP! The suggested donation is $30 per person\, with the minimum donations being $5 for members and $10 for non-members. \nWe hope to see you there![/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row type=”in_container” full_screen_row_position=”middle” scene_position=”center” text_color=”dark” text_align=”left” overlay_strength=”0.3″ shape_divider_position=”bottom” bg_image_animation=”none”][vc_column column_padding=”no-extra-padding” column_padding_position=”all” background_color_opacity=”1″ background_hover_color_opacity=”1″ column_link_target=”_self” column_shadow=”none” column_border_radius=”none” width=”1/1″ tablet_width_inherit=”default” tablet_text_alignment=”default” phone_text_alignment=”default” column_border_width=”none” column_border_style=”solid” bg_image_animation=”none”][vc_column_text]\n \n[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row] URL:https://www.oldsf.bmkt.net/event/celebrate-terra-madre-day-and-30-years-of-slow-food/ ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://www.oldsf.bmkt.net/wp/wp-content/uploads/2019/12/30-years-Manifesto-tb-1.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20191121T173000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20191121T203000 DTSTAMP:20260513T044920 CREATED:20191118T214323Z LAST-MODIFIED:20191118T214323Z UID:8766-1574357400-1574368200@www.oldsf.bmkt.net SUMMARY:An Ancestral Feast DESCRIPTION:[vc_row type=”in_container” full_screen_row_position=”middle” scene_position=”center” text_color=”dark” text_align=”left” overlay_strength=”0.3″ shape_divider_position=”bottom” bg_image_animation=”none”][vc_column column_padding=”no-extra-padding” column_padding_position=”all” background_color_opacity=”1″ background_hover_color_opacity=”1″ column_link_target=”_self” column_shadow=”none” column_border_radius=”none” width=”1/1″ tablet_width_inherit=”default” tablet_text_alignment=”default” phone_text_alignment=”default” column_border_width=”none” column_border_style=”solid” bg_image_animation=”none”][vc_column_text]The US is called the great “melting pot” for good reason. Since this land was colonized\, we immigrants have brought our vibrant cultures and cuisines to the table to create a rich and varied American foodscape. \nJoin Slow Food Russian River for a Ancestral Feast (potluck style)\, to honor our culinary heritages. We will gather in Sebastopol for an evening of storytelling\, sharing dishes that reflect our ancestral food traditions. Please bring a dish and/or beverage to share\, as well as your own plate\, cup\, and silverware since we will be gathering at the home of two of our gracious members and want to minimize clean-up. \nThe event is free\, however registration is required so please visit the Eventbrite page to sign up![/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row] URL:https://www.oldsf.bmkt.net/event/an-ancestral-feast/ LOCATION:2290 Pleasant Hill Road\, Sebastopol\, CA 95472 ORGANIZER;CN="Slow Food Russian River":MAILTO:russianriverca@slowfoodusa.org END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20191114T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20191114T210000 DTSTAMP:20260513T044920 CREATED:20190211T181450Z LAST-MODIFIED:20191001T192708Z UID:8444-1573758000-1573765200@www.oldsf.bmkt.net SUMMARY:Book Group: One Size Fits None\, by Stephanie Anderson DESCRIPTION:[vc_row type=”in_container” full_screen_row_position=”middle” scene_position=”center” text_color=”dark” text_align=”left” overlay_strength=”0.3″ shape_divider_position=”bottom” bg_image_animation=”none”][vc_column column_padding=”no-extra-padding” column_padding_position=”all” background_color_opacity=”1″ background_hover_color_opacity=”1″ column_link_target=”_self” column_shadow=”none” column_border_radius=”none” width=”1/1″ tablet_width_inherit=”default” tablet_text_alignment=”default” phone_text_alignment=”default” column_border_width=”none” column_border_style=”solid” bg_image_animation=”none”][vc_column_text]The Slow Food Russian River Book Group will discuss from One Size Fits None: A Farm Girl’s Search for the Promise of Regenerative Agriculture (2019) by Stephanie Anderson. \nThe Book Group usually meets the first Thursday of the month\, 7 – 9 pm\, at a location chosen by the rotating moderators\, be it their home\, a bar or restaurant\, a park or meadow\, or a public library or square. It’s a convivial dinner\, unless we meet at a bar or restaurant. Please bring a side dish or dessert for four and a beverage. \nTo RSVP and get directions please email the SFRR Book Group  If you have not attended the Book Group before please tell a bit about yourself. Same if you wish to receive the newsletter of the Book Group.[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row type=”in_container” full_screen_row_position=”middle” scene_position=”center” text_color=”dark” text_align=”left” overlay_strength=”0.3″ shape_divider_position=”bottom” bg_image_animation=”none”][vc_column column_padding=”no-extra-padding” column_padding_position=”all” background_color_opacity=”1″ background_hover_color_opacity=”1″ column_link_target=”_self” column_shadow=”none” column_border_radius=”none” width=”1/1″ tablet_width_inherit=”default” tablet_text_alignment=”default” phone_text_alignment=”default” column_border_width=”none” column_border_style=”solid” bg_image_animation=”none”][vc_column_text]\n\nEditorial Reviews\n\n\n\n\n“For reasons of public health and in the interest of a healthy planet\, our corporate food system badly needs to be repaired. In One Size Fits None\, Stephanie Anderson crisscrosses the country\, visiting the intrepid farmers who practice exactly the sort of farming techniques that will serve as models for that needed reform.”—Matt Sutherland\, Foreword\n(Matt Sutherland Foreword) \n“Though these recollections have become complicated for Anderson due to her recent research\, she writes convincingly that it is possible for her family’s farm—and all farms— to find and implement the sustainable practices that will carry them into a better future. Even readers who are not directly involved in food production will come away from this book as more informed consumers\, able to make better decisions about purchasing the food that sustains us\, and with a much deeper understanding of how agricultural production has changed. And how it will—how it must—change again.”—Katrina Gersie-Spronk\, Hopper\n(Katrina Gersie-Spronk Hopper) \n“It takes an agriculture reporter turned creative writer like Stephanie Anderson to do the legwork of reporting and research to explain how the world of industrial agriculture works. She does so clearly and convincingly\, on every page of this book. But she’s not just throwing flames at big ag or careless consumers. She positions herself in the center of the bullseye\, as she considers her own family ranch and what she’s come to understand as unsustainable management practices taking place there.”—Julianne Couch\, Daily Yonder\n(Julianne Couch Daily Yonder 2019-02-04) \n “A brave and clear-eyed book by a farmer’s daughter about the problems in our agriculture and the factors that keep farmers from making it better. Stephanie Anderson . . . points the way toward an agriculture that regenerates our soil\, our land\, and our hopes.”—Kristin Ohlson\, author of The Soil Will Save Us\n(Kristin Ohlson 2018-03-02) \n“Stephanie Anderson deftly counterpoints profiles of innovative farmers with affectionate yet honest reflections on her family’s farm—and the compromises the industrial model demands. Anderson is a strong\, new voice for an agriculture that works for public health\, for nature\, and for farmers.”—Judith D. Schwartz\, author of Cows Save the Planet and Water in Plain Sight\n(Judith D. Schwartz 2018-03-02) \n“One Size Fits None should be required reading for anyone who yearns for a clear-headed and informed account of our dysfunctional corporate food system\, which also examines hopeful models for reform.”—Andrew Furman\, author of Bitten: My Unexpected Love Affair with Florida and Goldens Are Here\n(Andrew Furman 2018-03-02) \n\n\n\n  \n[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row] URL:https://www.oldsf.bmkt.net/event/book-group-one-size-fits-none-by-stephanie-anderson/ LOCATION:Private Home in Sebastopol\, Address with RSVP\, Sebastopol\, CA\, 95472\, United States CATEGORIES:Book Group ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://www.oldsf.bmkt.net/wp/wp-content/uploads/2019/02/onesizefitsnonewithstephanieanderson.jpg ORGANIZER;CN="Slow Food Russian River Book Group":MAILTO:sfrrbookgroup@gmail.com END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20190905T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20190905T210000 DTSTAMP:20260513T044920 CREATED:20190822T224458Z LAST-MODIFIED:20190906T232323Z UID:8683-1567710000-1567717200@www.oldsf.bmkt.net SUMMARY:Book Group: Dark Day\, Dark Night: A Marijuana Murder Mystery\, by Jonah Raskin DESCRIPTION:[vc_row type=”in_container” full_screen_row_position=”middle” scene_position=”center” text_color=”dark” text_align=”left” overlay_strength=”0.3″ shape_divider_position=”bottom” bg_image_animation=”none”][vc_column column_padding=”no-extra-padding” column_padding_position=”all” background_color_opacity=”1″ background_hover_color_opacity=”1″ column_link_target=”_self” column_shadow=”none” column_border_radius=”none” width=”1/1″ tablet_width_inherit=”default” tablet_text_alignment=”default” phone_text_alignment=”default” column_border_width=”none” column_border_style=”solid” bg_image_animation=”none”][vc_column_text]Jonah Raskin and the Slow Food Russian River Book Group will be hosting a dinner conversation about Jonah’s second crime novel\, Dark Day\, Dark Night: A Marijuana Murder Mystery\, on Thursday\, September 5\, 7-9pm\, at his home on Petaluma Hill Road. Address with RSVP.[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row type=”in_container” full_screen_row_position=”middle” scene_position=”center” text_color=”dark” text_align=”left” overlay_strength=”0.3″ shape_divider_position=”bottom” bg_image_animation=”none”][vc_column column_padding=”no-extra-padding” column_padding_position=”all” background_color_opacity=”1″ background_hover_color_opacity=”1″ column_link_target=”_self” column_shadow=”none” column_border_radius=”none” width=”1/1″ tablet_width_inherit=”default” tablet_text_alignment=”default” phone_text_alignment=”default” column_border_width=”none” column_border_style=”solid” bg_image_animation=”none”][vc_column_text]\nHe will talk about his food research for his murder mystery and read a few passages pertaining to food and food labor. This is the second novel in a series about the private eye Tioga Vignetta. The first was Dark Land\, Dark Mirror: An Eco-Noir Mystery.\n\nPlease bring a beverage and/or dessert or side dish inspired by Jonah’s novel.\n[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row type=”in_container” full_screen_row_position=”middle” scene_position=”center” text_color=”dark” text_align=”left” overlay_strength=”0.3″ shape_divider_position=”bottom” bg_image_animation=”none”][vc_column column_padding=”no-extra-padding” column_padding_position=”all” background_color_opacity=”1″ background_hover_color_opacity=”1″ column_link_target=”_self” column_shadow=”none” column_border_radius=”none” width=”1/1″ tablet_width_inherit=”default” tablet_text_alignment=”default” phone_text_alignment=”default” column_border_width=”none” column_border_style=”solid” bg_image_animation=”none”][vc_column_text]The book is for sale at Copperfields\, and at other bookstores\, online or brick.  Jonah Raskin has been a frequent contributor to our blog\, most recently of his piece about Go\, Go\, Goguette Bakery in Santa Rosa. \n\n[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row type=”in_container” full_screen_row_position=”middle” scene_position=”center” text_color=”dark” text_align=”left” overlay_strength=”0.3″ shape_divider_position=”bottom” bg_image_animation=”none”][vc_column column_padding=”no-extra-padding” column_padding_position=”all” background_color_opacity=”1″ background_hover_color_opacity=”1″ column_link_target=”_self” column_shadow=”none” column_border_radius=”none” width=”1/1″ tablet_width_inherit=”default” tablet_text_alignment=”default” phone_text_alignment=”default” column_border_width=”none” column_border_style=”solid” bg_image_animation=”none”][vc_column_text]Publisher’s blurb: “Jonah Raskin’s raucous oddball noir\, set in the hotels\, cantinas\, and marijuana fields of Sonoma Valley\, is a steamy pozole peppered with characters like Billy Bones\, No Name\, and Turquoise Woman\, with an unforgettable turn by a snubnose-packing private eye named Tioga and her sidekick/lover Camilla. A definite contact high.” \n\n[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row type=”in_container” full_screen_row_position=”middle” scene_position=”center” text_color=”dark” text_align=”left” overlay_strength=”0.3″ shape_divider_position=”bottom” bg_image_animation=”none”][vc_column column_padding=”no-extra-padding” column_padding_position=”all” background_color_opacity=”1″ background_hover_color_opacity=”1″ column_link_target=”_self” column_shadow=”none” column_border_radius=”none” width=”1/1″ tablet_width_inherit=”default” tablet_text_alignment=”default” phone_text_alignment=”default” column_border_width=”none” column_border_style=”solid” bg_image_animation=”none”][vc_column_text]\nFood in “Dark Day\, Dark Night: A Marijuana Murder Mystery”\nFood of a sort begins on page 9 when Tioga\, the investigator has a macchiato and a brioche for the first meal of the day\, \nOn page 46\, there is an exotic party in the Mar Monte\, the luxury hotel\, where pakoras and samosas are served. \nOn page 69\, Tioga and her pal Camilla share popcorn when they go to a movie in town. \non page 76\, Tioga\, Camilla and Storm go to the restaurant\, a Chez Nous\, in the hotel\, order margaritas\, a Cobb salad\, a grilled pork chop with mashed potatoes\, and duck confit. \nOn pages 107 and 108\, Tioga and Gina have Napoleons and éclairs with tea. \non page 122 a homeless Mexican woman and her son share the remains of something that looks like moo shu pork from a Chinese restaurant. \n139 and the following pages\,  at the Mexican restaurant\, El Buen Comer\, there’s agua fresca\, chile rellenos\, corn chips\, guacamole\, and on page 143-144 fish tacos\, and Dos Equis. \non page 173 Tioga and Camilla go to the Mexican market that’s selling mangos\, papayas\, bananas\, apples\, pineapples and carambolas\, as well as corn and nopales\, and jalapenos. \non page 191\, we learn that Jonny Field\, the chef at the Mar Monte makes morels with cheddar cheese\, risotto with pomegranate\, arugula\, and pork\, including the skin\, and for desert\, blackberries\, ginger\, Balsamic vinegar and licorice root. \nAt the elegant dinner party—with Paul Lipski (aka “the Lip”) and Aden serving Johnny Field’s food\, there is rabbit terrine (page 213)\, scallops (214)\, roasted\, stuffed duck breast (216) with chard and roasted potatoes (218) and on page 226 panna cotta. \non pages 232 and 233\, Tioga and Camilla have sex in the pantry at the hotel\, which has on the shelves pasta\, za’atar\, garlic\, ginger\, arrowroot\, anise\, and saffron. \non page 238\, the next morning\, Tioga has a croissant and a cappuccino. \non page 239\, the breakfast menu at the restaurant in the hotel has a vegetarian hash\, Sonoma duck confit and mimosas. \non page 261\,  Billy Bones raises pigs. \nOn page 288 Victoria Sanchez\, Camilla’s mother\, makes tamales\, rice\, black beans\, fried plantains and pico de gallo\, \na climatic gunfight takes place at the Mexican restaurant on pages 304-305. \non page 323\, the Turquoise Woman serves Tioga mint tea in Japanese-style tea cups. \nand last but not least\, on page 336 Tioga goes into the cold cellar at the hotel and sees sacks of potatoes\, carrots\, cabbages and apples that are stored there. She picks up an apple and says on page 337\, “Nobody blames apples for rapes and murders.” Then she takes a bite and looks at herself in the full-length mirror.[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row type=”in_container” full_screen_row_position=”middle” scene_position=”center” text_color=”dark” text_align=”left” overlay_strength=”0.3″ shape_divider_position=”bottom” bg_image_animation=”none”][vc_column column_padding=”no-extra-padding” column_padding_position=”all” background_color_opacity=”1″ background_hover_color_opacity=”1″ column_link_target=”_self” column_shadow=”none” column_border_radius=”none” width=”1/1″ tablet_width_inherit=”default” tablet_text_alignment=”default” phone_text_alignment=”default” column_border_width=”none” column_border_style=”solid” bg_image_animation=”none”][vc_column_text]\nAbout the Author\nJonah Raskin is the author of 14 books\, including biographies of Jack London\, Allen Ginsberg and Abbie Hoffman. He has a Ph.D. from the University of Manchester in England where he studied with Frank Kermode. His B.A. and M.A. are from Columbia\, a school he attended because Ginsberg and Kerouac had been there. A performance poet\, Raskin is the author of seven poetry chapbooks and performs his work with jazz musicians. His first teaching job was at Winston State College in North Carolina\, his second at the State University of New York at Stony Brook and his third at Sonoma State University where he taught for thirty years in both the English Department and Communication Studies. He has been a book reviewer and a book critic for The San Francisco Chronicle and the Santa Rosa Press Democrat\, and a restaurant reviewer forThe Bohemian. He is current a staff reporter for Valley of the Moon magazine and writes about everything the editor assigns him\, from drug addiction and wine tasting rooms to bicycles and baseball. He has written his first murder mystery titled Dark Land\, Dark Mirror which was published in 2017. Among his other books are Field Days\, Natives\, Newcomers\, Exiles\, Fugitives\, My Search for B. Traven\, For The Hell of It: The Life and Times of Abbie Hoffman and American Scream: Allen Ginsberg’s “Howl” and the Making of the Beat Generation. He was a Fulbright Professor in Belgium where he taught American Literature in Antwerp and Ghent. In the Spring of 2017\, he lectured on Indian film and literature at several universities in and around Delhi\, India.[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row] URL:https://www.oldsf.bmkt.net/event/book-group-dark-day-dark-night-a-marijuana-murder-mystery-by-jonah-raskin/ LOCATION:Private Home in Rohnert Park\, Rohnert Park\, CA\, United States CATEGORIES:Book Group ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://www.oldsf.bmkt.net/wp/wp-content/uploads/2019/08/raskin-with-darkday.jpg ORGANIZER;CN="Slow Food Russian River Book Group":MAILTO:sfrrbookgroup@gmail.com END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20190502T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20190502T210000 DTSTAMP:20260513T044920 CREATED:20190411T150718Z LAST-MODIFIED:20190416T012954Z UID:8508-1556823600-1556830800@www.oldsf.bmkt.net SUMMARY:Book Group: Lot's Wife: Salt and the Human Condition\, by Sallie Tisdale DESCRIPTION:[vc_row type=”in_container” full_screen_row_position=”middle” scene_position=”center” text_color=”dark” text_align=”left” overlay_strength=”0.3″ shape_divider_position=”bottom” bg_image_animation=”none”][vc_column column_padding=”no-extra-padding” column_padding_position=”all” background_color_opacity=”1″ background_hover_color_opacity=”1″ column_link_target=”_self” column_shadow=”none” column_border_radius=”none” top_margin=”10″ width=”1/1″ tablet_width_inherit=”default” tablet_text_alignment=”default” phone_text_alignment=”default” column_border_width=”none” column_border_style=”solid” bg_image_animation=”none”][vc_column_text]The Slow Food Russian River Book Group will discuss Lot’s Wife: Salt and the Human Condition\, by Sallie Tisdale on May 2\, 7-9pm in Sebastopol\, CA. \nThe Slow Food Russian River Book Group usually meets the first Thursday of the month\, 7 – 9 pm\, at a location chosen by the rotating moderators\, be it their home\, a bar or restaurant\, a park or meadow\, or a public library or square. It’s a convivial dinner\, unless we meet at a bar or restaurant. Please bring a side dish or dessert for four and a beverage \nThis month’s host is Zeno Swijtink. He writes: “This book is a delightful reflection on my most favorite ingredient\, full of surprising and fascinating angles.” \nLocation in Sebastopol will be sent to you after RSVP. Book is available online for $4.49. Please bring a dish where salt plays a remarkable role and\, if you can\, a small\, labeled jar with your special salt. \nTo RSVP and get directions please email the SFRR Book Group  If you have not attended the Book Group before please tell a bit about yourself. Same if you wish to receive the newsletter of the Book Group.[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row type=”in_container” full_screen_row_position=”middle” scene_position=”center” text_color=”dark” text_align=”left” overlay_strength=”0.3″ shape_divider_position=”bottom” bg_image_animation=”none”][vc_column column_padding=”no-extra-padding” column_padding_position=”all” background_color_opacity=”1″ background_hover_color_opacity=”1″ column_link_target=”_self” column_shadow=”none” column_border_radius=”none” width=”1/1″ tablet_width_inherit=”default” tablet_text_alignment=”default” phone_text_alignment=”default” column_border_width=”none” column_border_color=”#ffffff” column_border_style=”solid” bg_image_animation=”none”][vc_column_text css=”.vc_custom_1555378183130{border-right-width: -20px !important;padding-top: 20px !important;padding-bottom: -10px !important;padding-left: -20px !important;background-color: #97ccc6 !important;border-radius: 20px !important;}”]\nThis is an extraordinary book that I absolutely adore. She is a phenomenal writer AND an oncology nurse\, too.\nI quoted from the book when I wrote my book on salt and pepper. Her work\, all of it\, really inspires me.\nmichele anna jordan \n[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row type=”in_container” full_screen_row_position=”middle” scene_position=”center” text_color=”dark” text_align=”left” overlay_strength=”0.3″ shape_divider_position=”bottom” bg_image_animation=”none”][vc_column column_padding=”no-extra-padding” column_padding_position=”all” background_color_opacity=”1″ background_hover_color_opacity=”1″ column_link_target=”_self” column_shadow=”none” column_border_radius=”none” width=”1/1″ tablet_width_inherit=”default” tablet_text_alignment=”default” phone_text_alignment=”default” column_border_width=”none” column_border_style=”solid” bg_image_animation=”none”][vc_column_text]\nAbout Lot’s Wife\nSallie Tisdale’s extraordinary meditation on life & human experience. She peers into the salty universe of the unborn fetus\, into the depths of the Great Salt Lake & into the shafts of a 1000-year-old mine\, where human hands have carved chandeliers\, even cathedrals\, of salt. We learn about kidneys & high blood pressure; about salt domes miles wide\, miles thick; about tribes that eat no salt & tribes that drink only salty water; about beef jerky\, crocodile tears\, sailors’ songs & the Salt Tax. Sociologically\, biologically\, economically & metaphorically\, Lot’s Wife examines salt in all its myriad forms & uses[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row type=”in_container” full_screen_row_position=”middle” scene_position=”center” text_color=”dark” text_align=”left” overlay_strength=”0.3″ shape_divider_position=”bottom” bg_image_animation=”none”][vc_column column_padding=”no-extra-padding” column_padding_position=”all” background_color_opacity=”1″ background_hover_color_opacity=”1″ column_link_target=”_self” column_shadow=”none” column_border_radius=”none” width=”1/1″ tablet_width_inherit=”default” tablet_text_alignment=”default” phone_text_alignment=”default” column_border_width=”none” column_border_style=”solid” bg_image_animation=”none”][vc_column_text]\n\n\nDetails\nTitle\nLot’s wife: salt and the human condition\nAuthor\nSallie Tisdale\nSubjects\nSalt in the body\nSalt — Miscellanea\nNotes\nIncludes bibliographical references (pages 194-204) and index.\nPublisher\nNew York : Holt\nCreation Date\n©1988\nFormat\n214 pages ; 22 cm.\nLanguage\nEnglish\nIdentifier\nISBN : 0805009205\nISBN : 9780805009200\nDewey : 612/.01524\nLC : QP535.N2 T57 1988\n\n\n[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row type=”in_container” full_screen_row_position=”middle” scene_position=”center” text_color=”dark” text_align=”left” overlay_strength=”0.3″ shape_divider_position=”bottom” bg_image_animation=”none”][vc_column column_padding=”no-extra-padding” column_padding_position=”all” background_color_opacity=”1″ background_hover_color_opacity=”1″ column_link_target=”_self” column_shadow=”none” column_border_radius=”none” width=”1/1″ tablet_width_inherit=”default” tablet_text_alignment=”default” phone_text_alignment=”default” column_border_width=”none” column_border_style=”solid” bg_image_animation=”none”][vc_column_text]\nReviews\nSalt\, in All Its Facts and Implications\, NY Times\, November. 18\, 1988 \nKIRKUS Review\, Oct. 1\, 1988 \n[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row] URL:https://www.oldsf.bmkt.net/event/book-group-lots-wife-salt-and-the-human-condition-by-sallie-tisdale/ LOCATION:Private Home in Sebastopol\, Address with RSVP\, Sebastopol\, CA\, 95472\, United States CATEGORIES:Book Group ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://www.oldsf.bmkt.net/wp/wp-content/uploads/2019/04/Lots-Wife-with-Sallie-Tisdale.jpg ORGANIZER;CN="Slow Food Russian River Book Group":MAILTO:sfrrbookgroup@gmail.com END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20190404T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20190404T210000 DTSTAMP:20260513T044920 CREATED:20190317T220010Z LAST-MODIFIED:20190317T220010Z UID:8486-1554404400-1554411600@www.oldsf.bmkt.net SUMMARY:Book Group: something to food about\, by Questlove and Ben Greenman DESCRIPTION:[vc_row type=”in_container” full_screen_row_position=”middle” scene_position=”center” text_color=”dark” text_align=”left” overlay_strength=”0.3″ shape_divider_position=”bottom” bg_image_animation=”none”][vc_column column_padding=”no-extra-padding” column_padding_position=”all” background_color_opacity=”1″ background_hover_color_opacity=”1″ column_link_target=”_self” column_shadow=”none” column_border_radius=”none” width=”1/1″ tablet_width_inherit=”default” tablet_text_alignment=”default” phone_text_alignment=”default” column_border_width=”none” column_border_style=”solid” bg_image_animation=”none”][vc_column_text]The Slow Food Russian River Book Group will discuss something to food about – Exploring Creativity with Innovative Chefs\, by Ahmir “Questlove” Thompson and Ben Greenman. Foreword by Anthony Bourdain and photographed by Kyoko Hamada. \nThe Slow Food Russian River Book Group usually meets the first Thursday of the month\, 7 – 9 pm\, at a location chosen by the rotating moderators\, be it their home\, a bar or restaurant\, a park or meadow\, or a public library or square. It’s a convivial dinner\, unless we meet at a bar or restaurant. Please bring a side dish or dessert for four and a beverage \nThis month’s host is Beth Sawatzky. She writes: “There are not many books that I check out of the library\, read and then know I want it for my own. ‘something to food about’ is one of them. Questlove says “This is not your typical food book…Think of it as a tour through different food studios…getting inside the minds of the artists.” I look forward to a leisurely evening of food & conversation. Which in my mind was the essence of the beginnings of the ‘Slow Food’ movement.” \nLocation in Healdsburg will be send to you after RSVP. Limited to 10 participants. \nTo RSVP and get directions please email the SFRR Book Group  If you have not attended the Book Group before please tell a bit about yourself. Same if you wish to receive the newsletter of the Book Group.[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row type=”in_container” full_screen_row_position=”middle” scene_position=”center” text_color=”dark” text_align=”left” overlay_strength=”0.3″ shape_divider_position=”bottom” bg_image_animation=”none”][vc_column column_padding=”no-extra-padding” column_padding_position=”all” background_color_opacity=”1″ background_hover_color_opacity=”1″ column_link_target=”_self” column_shadow=”none” column_border_radius=”none” width=”1/1″ tablet_width_inherit=”default” tablet_text_alignment=”default” phone_text_alignment=”default” column_border_width=”none” column_border_style=”solid” bg_image_animation=”none”][vc_column_text]ABOUT SOMETHING TO FOOD ABOUT \nIn somethingtofoodabout\, drummer\, producer\, musical director\, culinary entrepreneur\, and New York Times bestselling author\, Questlove\, applies his boundless curiosity to the world of food. \nIn conversations with ten innovative chefs in America\, Questlove explores what makes their creativity tick\, how they see the world through their cooking and how their cooking teaches them to see the world. The conversations begin with food but they end wherever food takes them. \nFood is fuel. Food is culture. Food is history. And food is food for thought. \nFeaturing conversations with: Nathan Myhrvold\, Modernist Cuisine Lab\, Seattle; Daniel Humm\, Eleven Madison Park\, and NoMad\, NYC; Michael Solomonov\, Zahav\, Philadelphia; Ludo Lefebvre\, Trois Mec\, L.A.; Dave Beran\, Next\, Chicago; Donald Link\, Cochon\, New Orleans; Dominque Crenn\, Atelier Crenn\, San Francisco; Daniel Patterson\, Coi and Loco’l (now closed)\, San Francisco; Jesse Griffiths\, Dai Due\, Austin; and Ryan Roadhouse\, Nodoguro\, Portland[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row type=”in_container” full_screen_row_position=”middle” scene_position=”center” text_color=”dark” text_align=”left” overlay_strength=”0.3″ shape_divider_position=”bottom” bg_image_animation=”none”][vc_column column_padding=”no-extra-padding” column_padding_position=”all” background_color_opacity=”1″ background_hover_color_opacity=”1″ column_link_target=”_self” column_shadow=”none” column_border_radius=”none” width=”1/1″ tablet_width_inherit=”default” tablet_text_alignment=”default” phone_text_alignment=”default” column_border_width=”none” column_border_style=”solid” bg_image_animation=”none”][vc_column_text]\n\n\n\nPRAISE for Questlove’s somethingtofoodabout\n“It’s a fresh ride.”–New York Times \n“With somethingtofoodabout\, Quest (aka Philadelphia’s Ahmir Thompson) dives head first into the topics that get chefs talking: What is creativity? How are art and food related? What does the future hold for food and cooking? Questlove sits down with some of the most exceptional chefs in America\, including Daniel Humm (Eleven Madison Park)\, Dominique Crenn (Atelier Crenn)\, Michael Solomonov (Zahav)\, and Daniel Patterson (Coi). Questlove himself plays an equal part in getting the answers\, providing examples and references to his own life as a musician and creator as he talks with food luminaries about the thorny questions surrounding creativity.”–Eater \n“Somethingtofoodabout is really a passion project. For Questlove\, it’s not about the food business\, but rather the ideas\, the concepts\, and the imaginations behind the chefs who feed him. There are no recipes and no how-tos. For Questlove\, the only how-to you need to know is how to appreciate and understand the taste\, the process\, and the journey of the idea.”–Vogue \n“An enjoyable\, frequently surprising exploration of creativity.”–Kirkus Reviews\n[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row type=”in_container” full_screen_row_position=”middle” scene_position=”center” text_color=”dark” text_align=”left” overlay_strength=”0.3″ shape_divider_position=”bottom” bg_image_animation=”none”][vc_column column_padding=”no-extra-padding” column_padding_position=”all” background_color_opacity=”1″ background_hover_color_opacity=”1″ column_link_target=”_self” column_shadow=”none” column_border_radius=”none” width=”1/1″ tablet_width_inherit=”default” tablet_text_alignment=”default” phone_text_alignment=”default” column_border_width=”none” column_border_style=”solid” bg_image_animation=”none”][vc_column_text]Questlove\, cofounder of hip-hop superstars the Roots and bandleader for Jimmy Fallon’s The Tonight Show\, is one of our great cultural commentators—a wide-ranging mind whose interests span from music to politics to race to design to food. He is the author of Somethingtofoodabout: Exploring Creativity with Innovative Chefs. To learn more\, visit questlove.com. \nBen Greenman is a contributing writer at The New Yorker. His novels and short story collections include The Slippage and Superbad. His short fiction has appeared in the Paris Review\, Zoetrope: All Story\, McSweeney’s\, Opium Magazine\, the Mississippi Review\, and elsewhere. He lives in Brooklyn.[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row type=”in_container” full_screen_row_position=”middle” scene_position=”center” text_color=”dark” text_align=”left” overlay_strength=”0.3″ shape_divider_position=”bottom” bg_image_animation=”none”][vc_column column_padding=”no-extra-padding” column_padding_position=”all” background_color_opacity=”1″ background_hover_color_opacity=”1″ column_link_target=”_self” column_shadow=”none” column_border_radius=”none” width=”1/1″ tablet_width_inherit=”default” tablet_text_alignment=”default” phone_text_alignment=”default” column_border_width=”none” column_border_style=”solid” bg_image_animation=”none”][vc_column_text]\n\n\n\n[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row] URL:https://www.oldsf.bmkt.net/event/book-group-something-to-food-about-by-questlove-and-ben-greenman/ LOCATION:Private home in Healdsburg\, Healdsburg\, CA\, United States CATEGORIES:Book Group ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://www.oldsf.bmkt.net/wp/wp-content/uploads/2019/03/somethingtofoodaboutwithauthor.jpg ORGANIZER;CN="Slow Food Russian River Book Group":MAILTO:sfrrbookgroup@gmail.com END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20190206T173000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20190206T190000 DTSTAMP:20260513T044920 CREATED:20190111T231023Z LAST-MODIFIED:20190203T005432Z UID:8403-1549474200-1549479600@www.oldsf.bmkt.net SUMMARY:2nd Annual Snail of Approval Awards Ceremony DESCRIPTION:[vc_row type=”in_container” full_screen_row_position=”middle” scene_position=”center” text_color=”dark” text_align=”left” overlay_strength=”0.3″ shape_divider_position=”bottom” bg_image_animation=”none”][vc_column column_padding=”no-extra-padding” column_padding_position=”all” background_color_opacity=”1″ background_hover_color_opacity=”1″ column_link_target=”_self” column_shadow=”none” column_border_radius=”none” width=”1/1″ tablet_width_inherit=”default” tablet_text_alignment=”default” phone_text_alignment=”default” column_border_width=”none” column_border_style=”solid” bg_image_animation=”none”][vc_column_text]Snail of Approval of Slow Food in Sonoma County recognizes food-related providers in Sonoma County for making significant contributions to transform our food system to one that is good\, clean and fair. We are a joint project of Slow Food Russian River and Slow Food Sonoma County North.[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row type=”in_container” full_screen_row_position=”middle” scene_position=”center” text_color=”dark” text_align=”left” overlay_strength=”0.3″ shape_divider_position=”bottom” bg_image_animation=”none”][vc_column column_padding=”no-extra-padding” column_padding_position=”all” background_color_opacity=”1″ background_hover_color_opacity=”1″ column_link_target=”_self” column_shadow=”none” column_border_radius=”none” width=”1/1″ tablet_width_inherit=”default” tablet_text_alignment=”default” phone_text_alignment=”default” column_border_width=”none” column_border_style=”solid” bg_image_animation=”none”][vc_column_text]\nWednesday\, February 6\, 2019\n5:30 PM – 7:00 PM\nSebastopol Grange\, 6000 Sebastopol Avenue\, Sebastopol\nAfter the awards ceremony enjoy “Good\, Clean and Fair” bites and pours from the awardees and our donors.\n[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row type=”in_container” full_screen_row_position=”middle” scene_position=”center” text_color=”dark” text_align=”left” overlay_strength=”0.3″ shape_divider_position=”bottom” bg_image_animation=”none”][vc_column column_padding=”no-extra-padding” column_padding_position=”all” background_color_opacity=”1″ background_hover_color_opacity=”1″ column_link_target=”_self” column_shadow=”none” column_border_radius=”none” width=”1/1″ tablet_width_inherit=”default” tablet_text_alignment=”default” phone_text_alignment=”default” column_border_width=”none” column_border_style=”solid” bg_image_animation=”none”][vc_column_text]\n \n[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row type=”in_container” full_screen_row_position=”middle” scene_position=”center” text_color=”dark” text_align=”left” overlay_strength=”0.3″ shape_divider_position=”bottom” bg_image_animation=”none”][vc_column column_padding=”no-extra-padding” column_padding_position=”all” background_color_opacity=”1″ background_hover_color_opacity=”1″ column_link_target=”_self” column_shadow=”none” column_border_radius=”none” width=”1/1″ tablet_width_inherit=”default” tablet_text_alignment=”default” phone_text_alignment=”default” column_border_width=”none” column_border_style=”solid” bg_image_animation=”none”][vc_column_text]\n\n\n\n\n\nJoin Slow Food Russian River and Slow Food Sonoma County North as we honor our 2018 Snail of Approval restaurant awardees: \nPatisserie Angelica – Sebastopol; Red Horse Pizza – Santa Rosa; Lowell’s – Sebastopol; Handline – Sebastopol; Trading Post – Cloverdale; SingleThread – Healdsburg; Mateo’s Cocina Latina – Healdsburg \n\n\n\n\n\n[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row type=”in_container” full_screen_row_position=”middle” scene_position=”center” text_color=”dark” text_align=”left” overlay_strength=”0.3″ shape_divider_position=”bottom” bg_image_animation=”none”][vc_column column_padding=”no-extra-padding” 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bg_image_animation=”none”][vc_column_text]\n \n[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row type=”in_container” full_screen_row_position=”middle” scene_position=”center” text_color=”dark” text_align=”left” overlay_strength=”0.3″ shape_divider_position=”bottom” bg_image_animation=”none”][vc_column column_padding=”no-extra-padding” column_padding_position=”all” background_color_opacity=”1″ background_hover_color_opacity=”1″ column_link_target=”_self” column_shadow=”none” column_border_radius=”none” width=”1/1″ tablet_width_inherit=”default” tablet_text_alignment=”default” phone_text_alignment=”default” column_border_width=”none” column_border_style=”solid” bg_image_animation=”none”][vc_column_text]\nWe are excited to announce that we are also launching our Farm/Ranch Snail of Approval program and awarding our first Snails to: \nTierra Vegetables – Santa Rosa; Lantern Farm – Cloverdale \n[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row type=”in_container” full_screen_row_position=”middle” 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tablet_width_inherit=”default” tablet_text_alignment=”default” phone_text_alignment=”default” column_border_width=”none” column_border_style=”solid” bg_image_animation=”none”][vc_column_text]\n \n[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][vc_column column_padding=”no-extra-padding” column_padding_position=”all” background_color_opacity=”1″ background_hover_color_opacity=”1″ column_link_target=”_self” column_shadow=”none” column_border_radius=”none” width=”1/4″ tablet_width_inherit=”default” tablet_text_alignment=”default” phone_text_alignment=”default” column_border_width=”none” column_border_style=”solid” bg_image_animation=”none”][vc_column_text]\n \n[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row] URL:https://www.oldsf.bmkt.net/event/2nd-annual-snail-of-approval-awards-ceremony/ LOCATION:Sebastopol Grange\, 6000 Sebastopol Avenue\, Sebastopol\, California\, 95472\, United States ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://www.oldsf.bmkt.net/wp/wp-content/uploads/2019/01/awardceremony01.jpg ORGANIZER;CN="Slow Food in Sonoma County":MAILTO:snailofapprovalsc@gmail.com END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20181209T153000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20181209T183000 DTSTAMP:20260513T044920 CREATED:20181111T195738Z LAST-MODIFIED:20181208T163203Z UID:8338-1544369400-1544380200@www.oldsf.bmkt.net SUMMARY:2018 Holiday Party DESCRIPTION:[vc_row type=”in_container” full_screen_row_position=”middle” scene_position=”center” text_color=”dark” text_align=”left” overlay_strength=”0.3″ shape_divider_position=”bottom”][vc_column column_padding=”no-extra-padding” column_padding_position=”all” background_color_opacity=”1″ background_hover_color_opacity=”1″ column_link_target=”_self” column_shadow=”none” column_border_radius=”none” width=”1/1″ tablet_width_inherit=”default” tablet_text_alignment=”default” phone_text_alignment=”default” column_border_width=”none” column_border_style=”solid”][vc_column_text]\nYou’re Invited!\nTo our Slow Food Russian River\n2018 Holiday Party & Cookie Exchange\nCe-lebrate good food\, c’mon!♪♫♬\nOne of our most loved traditions at Slow Food Russian River is to gather with our Slow Food members and supporters to share good food and cheer.   \nOur celebration always +/- coincides with Terra Madre Day\, the international day of celebration with all our friends across the globe to promote the diversity of food traditions and remind each other of our love for the planet and our determination to defend its future and our philosophy of good\, clean and fair food for all.  Let’s cook up a better future. \nTo protect our environment and to shine a light on the link between food and climate change\, this year\, Terra Madre Day\, December 10\,  is focused on Food for Change\, Slow Food’s international campaign to highlight the role of food and cooking as a cause\, victim\, and potential solution to climate change. \n\n \nPlease join us on Dec 9th\n3:30-6:30pm\nTop of Swain Woods\n7403 Palm Ave.\nSebastopol\, CA\nWe will provide hot cider (we are known for our juicing capabilities)\, punch\, and some other beverages \nPlease bring your favorite beverage\, and savory or sweet finger food to share… it’s a chance to use a family recipe.\nBring home-made cookies in dozens for a cookie exchange to give forward to friends and family during this holiday season. \n$10-15 \nTickets \n[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row type=”in_container” full_screen_row_position=”middle” scene_position=”center” text_color=”dark” text_align=”left” overlay_strength=”0.3″ shape_divider_position=”bottom”][vc_column column_padding=”no-extra-padding” column_padding_position=”all” background_color_opacity=”1″ background_hover_color_opacity=”1″ column_link_target=”_self” column_shadow=”none” column_border_radius=”none” width=”1/1″ tablet_width_inherit=”default” tablet_text_alignment=”default” phone_text_alignment=”default” column_border_width=”none” column_border_style=”solid”][vc_column_text]\nThanks to Our Sponsors\n[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row type=”in_container” full_screen_row_position=”middle” scene_position=”center” text_color=”dark” text_align=”left” overlay_strength=”0.3″ shape_divider_position=”bottom”][vc_column column_padding=”no-extra-padding” column_padding_position=”all” background_color_opacity=”1″ background_hover_color_opacity=”1″ column_link_target=”_self” column_shadow=”none” column_border_radius=”none” width=”1/2″ tablet_width_inherit=”default” tablet_text_alignment=”default” phone_text_alignment=”default” column_border_width=”none” column_border_style=”solid”][vc_column_text][/vc_column_text][/vc_column][vc_column column_padding=”no-extra-padding” column_padding_position=”all” background_color_opacity=”1″ background_hover_color_opacity=”1″ column_link_target=”_self” column_shadow=”none” column_border_radius=”none” width=”1/2″ tablet_width_inherit=”default” tablet_text_alignment=”default” phone_text_alignment=”default” column_border_width=”none” column_border_style=”solid”][vc_column_text]Spirit Works Distillery is based in Sonoma County\, Sebastopol at The Barlow. Except for its Straight Rye Whiskey\, the spirits are handcrafted from organic Californian wheat from the Central Valley\, that they mill\, mash\, ferment\, distill\, and bottle in their own distillery. Distillery tours are Friday-Sunday at two times\, 2 pm and 5 pm. The tour includes an in-depth look at the path the grain takes through the production facility to become a Spirit Works Distillery product. The tour concludes with a full tasting of Spirit Works Distillery spirits. Sign up here.[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row] URL:https://www.oldsf.bmkt.net/event/2018-holiday-party/ LOCATION:Top of Swain Woods\, 7403 Palm Ave\, Sebastopol\, CA\, 95472\, United States ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://www.oldsf.bmkt.net/wp/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/2018-holidaypart-tb.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20181209T153000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20181209T183000 DTSTAMP:20260513T044920 CREATED:20181109T184241Z LAST-MODIFIED:20181109T230131Z UID:8142-1544369400-1544380200@www.oldsf.bmkt.net SUMMARY:Cookie Swap\, and Book Group: American Cookie\, by Anne Byrn DESCRIPTION:[vc_row type=”in_container” full_screen_row_position=”middle” scene_position=”center” text_color=”dark” text_align=”left” overlay_strength=”0.3″][vc_column column_padding=”no-extra-padding” column_padding_position=”all” background_color_opacity=”1″ background_hover_color_opacity=”1″ column_shadow=”none” width=”1/1″ tablet_text_alignment=”default” phone_text_alignment=”default” column_border_width=”none” column_border_style=”solid”][vc_column_text]The December 2018 meeting of the SFRR Book Group coincides this year with the Slow Food Russian River 2018 Holiday Party\, on December 9th. It includes an American Cookie Swap. Preferably cookies made with California Grain and other local and regional ingredients.[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row type=”in_container” full_screen_row_position=”middle” scene_position=”center” text_color=”dark” text_align=”left” overlay_strength=”0.3″][vc_column column_padding=”no-extra-padding” column_padding_position=”all” background_color_opacity=”1″ background_hover_color_opacity=”1″ column_shadow=”none” width=”1/1″ tablet_text_alignment=”default” phone_text_alignment=”default” column_border_width=”none” column_border_style=”solid”][vc_column_text]About the Cookie Swap \n[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row type=”in_container” full_screen_row_position=”middle” scene_position=”center” text_color=”dark” text_align=”left” overlay_strength=”0.3″][vc_column column_padding=”no-extra-padding” column_padding_position=”all” background_color_opacity=”1″ background_hover_color_opacity=”1″ column_shadow=”none” width=”1/1″ tablet_text_alignment=”default” phone_text_alignment=”default” column_border_width=”none” column_border_style=”solid”][vc_column_text]About California Grain \nThe California Grain Campaign is led by small-scale farmers who are growing a diversity of identity-preserved\, whole grains. This is the one place to read about the farmers and the grains they grow — and how you can get them to your table! Order the California Grain Catalog 2017. \nThe 20% by 2020 Campaign wants to ensure that small-scale California grain farmers can get their whole grain to eaters\, and for eaters to have easy access to healthful\, local whole grain products. The obvious site that brings together local producers and eaters is the farmers’ market. \nThe Campaign works with California farmer’s market organizations to require a minimum of 20% locally grown whole grain in products sold in those markets by 2020. That means that in 2020\, you can bite into a farmers’ market pretzel and 20% will be delicious locally grown\, whole grain. More…[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row type=”in_container” full_screen_row_position=”middle” scene_position=”center” text_color=”dark” text_align=”left” overlay_strength=”0.3″][vc_column column_padding=”no-extra-padding” column_padding_position=”all” background_color_opacity=”1″ background_hover_color_opacity=”1″ column_shadow=”none” width=”1/1″ tablet_text_alignment=”default” phone_text_alignment=”default” column_border_width=”none” column_border_style=”solid”][vc_column_text]About the Author \nAnne Byrn is known to millions of fans through her Cake Mix Doctor\, Dinner Doctor\, and American Cake cookbooks. Her newest book is called American Cookie\, which is a history of the favorite cookies and small sweet bites in America with recipes. When Anne is not in her Nashville kitchen\, she is in the garden. Visit her online at www.annebyrn.com. There she writes: “I’m a Nashville gal who loves to cook and talk about it\, too!” More…[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row type=”in_container” full_screen_row_position=”middle” scene_position=”center” text_color=”dark” text_align=”left” overlay_strength=”0.3″][vc_column column_padding=”no-extra-padding” column_padding_position=”all” background_color_opacity=”1″ background_hover_color_opacity=”1″ column_shadow=”none” width=”1/1″ tablet_text_alignment=”default” phone_text_alignment=”default” column_border_width=”none” column_border_style=”solid”][vc_column_text]Anne Byrn writes \n“Today’s cooks should take note that baking cookies is a part of our American heritage before we forget how good it feels to pull a sheet pan of decorated sugar cookies from the oven. Do we want to completely wipe the crumbly\, soft texture of a home-baked tea cake or thumbprint cookie from our minds? In our marbled kitchens\, there is ample space to roll out pastry for lemon squares\, or to pipe meringue onto jam-topped Marguerites like women did in the 1830s\, and even improve our gingerbread skills.”  More…[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row type=”in_container” full_screen_row_position=”middle” scene_position=”center” text_color=”dark” text_align=”left” overlay_strength=”0.3″][vc_column column_padding=”no-extra-padding” column_padding_position=”all” background_color_opacity=”1″ background_hover_color_opacity=”1″ column_shadow=”none” width=”1/1″ tablet_text_alignment=”default” phone_text_alignment=”default” column_border_width=”none” column_border_style=”solid”][vc_column_text]Publisher’s Blurb \nFrom the beloved author of the bestselling Cake Mix Doctor series and American Cake comes a delicious tour of America’s favorite treats\, cookies\, and candies\, American Cookie. Each of America’s little bites—cookies\, candies\, wafers\, brittles—tells a big story\, and each speaks volumes about what was going on in America when the recipes were created. In American Cookie\, the New York Times bestselling author and Cake Mix Doctor Anne Byrn takes us on a journey through America’s baking history. And just like she did in American Cake\, she provides an incredibly detailed historical background alongside each recipe. Because the little bites we love are more than just baked goods—they’re representations of different times in our history. Early colonists brought sugar cookies\, Italian fig cookies\, African benne wafers\, and German gingerbread cookies. Each of the 100 recipes\, from Katharine Hepburn Brownies and Democratic Tea Cakes to saltwater taffy and peanut brittle\, comes with a lesson that’s both informative and enchanting. More… \n[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row type=”in_container” full_screen_row_position=”middle” scene_position=”center” text_color=”dark” text_align=”left” overlay_strength=”0.3″][vc_column column_padding=”no-extra-padding” column_padding_position=”all” background_color_opacity=”1″ background_hover_color_opacity=”1″ column_shadow=”none” width=”1/1″ tablet_text_alignment=”default” phone_text_alignment=”default” column_border_width=”none” column_border_style=”solid”][vc_column_text]Southern Kitchen writes “Anne Byrn’s newest cookbook will have you itching to pull out pounds of butter\, brown sugar and more \nHer streamlined shrimp and grits have changed the way we make seafood brunch. Her classic Southern cornbread has become a regular in our cast iron rotation. And her pot roast? Well\, let’s just say we’re waiting impatiently for cooler weather to come around before we start eating it again on the regular. \nAnne Byrn’s Southern Kitchen column\, Taste of a Place\, has generated some of our most popular recipes and stories since last spring. Byrn’s voracious appetite for American culinary history has educated all of us on what it is we’re really eating when we eat Southern food. And now she’s expanded her expertise to one of the most iconic of desserts — the cookie.” More…\n[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row] URL:https://www.oldsf.bmkt.net/event/cookie-swap-and-book-group-american-cookie-by-anne-byrn/ CATEGORIES:Book Group ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://www.oldsf.bmkt.net/wp/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/American-cookie-combo.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20181104T150000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20181104T193000 DTSTAMP:20260513T044920 CREATED:20180915T023738Z LAST-MODIFIED:20181023T001446Z UID:8052-1541343600-1541359800@www.oldsf.bmkt.net SUMMARY:Heritage Turkey Sunday Supper 2018 DESCRIPTION:[vc_row type=”in_container” full_screen_row_position=”middle” scene_position=”center” text_color=”dark” text_align=”left” overlay_strength=”0.3″][vc_column column_padding=”no-extra-padding” column_padding_position=”all” background_color_opacity=”1″ background_hover_color_opacity=”1″ column_shadow=”none” width=”1/1″ tablet_text_alignment=”default” phone_text_alignment=”default” column_border_width=”none” column_border_style=”solid”][vc_column_text]Our November 4 event\, Heritage Turkey Sunday Supper\, benefits farmers\, students\, and local youth agriculture. \nWe will be celebrating our food and ag community with celebrity emcee/auctioneer Liam Mayclem\, a meal by an all-star team of local chefs\, auctions and great music.[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row type=”in_container” full_screen_row_position=”middle” scene_position=”center” text_color=”dark” text_align=”left” overlay_strength=”0.3″][vc_column column_padding=”no-extra-padding” column_padding_position=”all” background_color_opacity=”1″ background_hover_color_opacity=”1″ column_shadow=”none” width=”1/1″ tablet_text_alignment=”default” phone_text_alignment=”default” column_border_width=”none” column_border_style=”solid”][vc_column_text][/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row type=”in_container” full_screen_row_position=”middle” scene_position=”center” text_color=”dark” text_align=”left” overlay_strength=”0.3″][vc_column column_padding=”no-extra-padding” column_padding_position=”all” background_color_opacity=”1″ background_hover_color_opacity=”1″ column_shadow=”none” width=”1/1″ tablet_text_alignment=”default” phone_text_alignment=”default” column_border_width=”none” column_border_style=”solid”][vc_column_text]\nHeritage Turkey Sunday Supper 2018\nJulie Atwood Events and Slow Food Russian River invite supporters of agriculture and lovers of extraordinary food to gather for the Heritage Turkey reception\, dinner and auctions on Sunday\, November 4\, 2018\, at Atwood Ranch in Glen Ellen. The event begins at 3 p.m. Tickets are available on Eventbrite\, and start at $100 for individual tickets. Hosted and sponsored tables of 10 are also available. Learn more at heritageturkeysupper.eventbrite.com. \nThe Heritage Turkey Sunday Supper benefits programs that support the tradition of family agriculture and prepare young people for local careers: Sonoma County 4-H Heritage Turkey Project youth farmers\, Slow Food Russian River\, and Sonoma County Farm Trails Agriculture Scholarships. Have a preview of the terrific auction lots.[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row type=”in_container” full_screen_row_position=”middle” scene_position=”center” text_color=”dark” text_align=”left” overlay_strength=”0.3″][vc_column column_padding=”no-extra-padding” column_padding_position=”all” background_color_opacity=”1″ background_hover_color_opacity=”1″ column_shadow=”none” width=”1/3″ tablet_text_alignment=”default” phone_text_alignment=”default” column_border_width=”none” column_border_style=”solid”][vc_column_text]\n \n[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][vc_column column_padding=”no-extra-padding” column_padding_position=”all” background_color_opacity=”1″ background_hover_color_opacity=”1″ column_shadow=”none” width=”1/3″ tablet_text_alignment=”default” phone_text_alignment=”default” column_border_width=”none” column_border_style=”solid”][vc_column_text]\n \n[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][vc_column column_padding=”no-extra-padding” column_padding_position=”all” background_color_opacity=”1″ background_hover_color_opacity=”1″ column_shadow=”none” width=”1/3″ tablet_text_alignment=”default” phone_text_alignment=”default” column_border_width=”none” column_border_style=”solid”][vc_column_text]\n \n[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row type=”in_container” full_screen_row_position=”middle” scene_position=”center” text_color=”dark” text_align=”left” overlay_strength=”0.3″][vc_column column_padding=”no-extra-padding” column_padding_position=”all” background_color_opacity=”1″ background_hover_color_opacity=”1″ column_shadow=”none” width=”1/1″ tablet_text_alignment=”default” phone_text_alignment=”default” column_border_width=”none” column_border_style=”solid”][vc_column_text]\n \n[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row type=”in_container” full_screen_row_position=”middle” scene_position=”center” text_color=”dark” text_align=”left” overlay_strength=”0.3″][vc_column column_padding=”no-extra-padding” column_padding_position=”all” background_color_opacity=”1″ background_hover_color_opacity=”1″ column_shadow=”none” width=”1/1″ tablet_text_alignment=”default” phone_text_alignment=”default” column_border_width=”none” column_border_style=”solid”][vc_column_text]During the “Farmyard Reception\,” guests will mix and mingle with the kids and their turkeys\, and dozens of local chefs\, purveyors\, vintners and brewers. They’ll also be able to bid on one-of-a-kind items in the silent auction. Dinner will be a four-course family-style meal prepared by a team of celebrated local chefs including Daniel Kedan of Backyard\, John Stewart and Duskie Estes of Zazu Kitchen & Farm\, Bryan Jones\, recently retired Executive Chef at St. Francis Winery\, WOW Executive Chef Robb Ledesma\, and Pastry Chef Condra Easley of Pâtisserie Angelica. Members of the Sonoma County 4-H Heritage Turkey Project will show their prized birds during a live auction. Diners will have a chance to bid on a Heritage Breed Turkey to serve at their Thanksgiving meal\, as well as on some unique and exciting culinary experiences. \nThe Sunday Supper is the culmination of months of hard work focusing on the preservation of Heritage Breed Turkeys and other delicious heritage foods being brought back to our local markets. Young members of the agricultural community buy their own feed and raise the young turkeys to maturity for the Thanksgiving market. Some of the project members have raised breeding pairs and hatched their own healthy birds. The project\, launched by Slow Food Russian River in 2006\, has brought awareness to the community and to farmers of all generations about the value of biodiversity and the support necessary for the future of farming. The Heritage Breeds Club has raised more than 2\,400 turkeys to date. \nSlow Food Russian River is committed to maintaining a diverse food supply by supporting the producers. Eight Heritage Turkey breeds are part of the Slow Food “Ark of Taste\,” a collection of delicious and culturally significant foods that are in danger of extinction. By promoting awareness about these foods\, they remain in production. Catherine Thode\, Slow Food Russian River project leader\, says\, “We’re not just raising heritage turkeys\, we’re helping to raise a new generation of farmers. Our goal is to educate them – and the public – about ethical animal stewardship\, the need for diversity and our Slow Food values of Good\, Clean and Fair food.” \nEmmy Award-winning radio and TV personality Liam Mayclem will preside over the evening. Best known as the host of “Eye on the Bay” on CBS KPIX 5 and as “The Foodie Chap” celebrating San Francisco Bay Area culinary stars daily on KCBS Radio\, Liam will bring his special brand of charm and panache to the auction stage. \n“The Sunday Supper celebrates community\, our beautiful landscapes\, bountiful farms and ranchland\, and the people who grow the food and make the products that nourish both body and spirit\,” says host Julie Atwood\, who is the event planner and a longtime supporter of youth agriculture in Sonoma County. “The generosity of our chefs and guests will help honor the legacy of the pioneers and nurture the next generation and the future of agriculture.”[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row type=”in_container” full_screen_row_position=”middle” scene_position=”center” text_color=”dark” text_align=”left” overlay_strength=”0.3″][vc_column column_padding=”no-extra-padding” column_padding_position=”all” background_color_opacity=”1″ background_hover_color_opacity=”1″ column_shadow=”none” width=”1/1″ tablet_text_alignment=”default” phone_text_alignment=”default” column_border_width=”none” column_border_style=”solid”][vc_column_text]About Sonoma County Farm Trails Agriculture Scholarships: Through a fiscal partnership with Slow Food Russian River\, Sonoma County Farm Trails provides scholarships for students interested in pursuing a career in agriculture. Scholarships are for both local colleges and on-farm experience. \nAbout Julie Atwood Events: Julie Atwood Events focuses on philanthropy and collaboration with deserving communities through elite events supporting agriculture\, at-risk children and seniors\, and community emergency and disaster preparedness. \nAbout Slow Food Russian River: Slow Food Russian River is a local chapter of Slow Food International. A worldwide organization\, Slow Food endorses a global food system that values good\, healthy food\, clean environments\, fair pay\, and food justice for all. Slow Food Russian River works locally to support biodiversity and youth agriculture through its projects such as Heritage Turkey\, the Sebastopol Gravenstein Apple Presidium\, School Gardens and our participation in Snail of Approval of Slow Food in Sonoma County.[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row] URL:https://www.oldsf.bmkt.net/event/heritage-turkey-sunday-supper-2018/ LOCATION:Atwood Ranch\, 12099 Sonoma Highway\, Glen Ellen\, CA\, 95442\, United States CATEGORIES:Fundraising Dinner,Slow Meat ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://www.oldsf.bmkt.net/wp/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/2018-turkey-event-mini-postcard.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20181101T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20181101T210000 DTSTAMP:20260513T044920 CREATED:20181007T010506Z LAST-MODIFIED:20181120T004557Z UID:8137-1541098800-1541106000@www.oldsf.bmkt.net SUMMARY:Book Group: Renewing America's Food Traditions\, by Gary Nabhan (ed.) DESCRIPTION:The Slow Food Russian River Book Group will be discussing Renewing America’s Food Traditions: Saving and Savoring the Continent’s Most Endangered Foods\, by Gary Paul Nabhan (ed.)\, with a foreword by Deborah Madison (Chelsea Green Publishing\, 2008) \nThe Book Group meets the first Thursday of the month\, 7 – 9pm\, usually in Sebastopol. It’s a convivial dinner. Please bring a dish for four and a beverage. \nPlease RSVP on Meetup or by email and spread the word about this Book Group. Location revealed after RSVP. \nMembership\nTo be a member of the Book Group you don’t need to be a member of Slow Food\, although – of course – we hope that with time you will become one. \nAbout the Editor\nGary Paul Nabhan is an Agricultural Ecologist\, Ethnobotanist\, Ecumenical Franciscan Brother\, and author whose work has focused primarily on the plants and cultures of the desert Southwest. He is considered a pioneer in the local food movement and the heirloom seed saving movement. \nPublishers Blurb of Renewing America’s Food Traditions: Saving and Savoring the Continent’s Most Endangered Foods \nRenewing the Food Traditions of North America is a dramatic call to recognize\, celebrate\, and conserve the great diversity of foods that give North America the distinctive culinary identity that reflects its multi-cultural heritage. It offers us rich natural and cultural histories as well as recipes and folk traditions associated with one hundred of the rarest food plants and animals in North America. In doing so\, it reminds us that what we choose to eat can either conserve or deplete the cornucopia of our continent. \nIn addition\, it offers a eulogy to a once-common game food that has gone extinct–the passenger pigeon–to underscore how rapidly a food species can be depleted if its habitat is destroyed and harvesting pressures are ignored. Rather than dwelling on the tragic losses\, it highlights the success stories of food recovery\, habitat restoration\, and market revitalization which chefs\, farmers\, ranchers\, fishermen\, and foresters have recently achieved. Through such food parables\, editor Nabhan and his colleagues build a persuasive argument for eater-based conservation. \nImplementing that call to action\, the Renewing America’s Food Tradition collaborative involves some of the country’s most inspiring and effective non-profit organizations in targeting hundreds of rare and neglected foods unique to North America for such restoration and recovery. They have been compiled into the first-ever comprehensive list of the wild and domesticated food varieties that are threatened or endangered in North America\, including heirloom seeds\, fruits\, and nuts; heritage breeds of livestock and poultry; fish and game; and wild-foraged plants. In addition\, this book offers a tool-kit to engage those who wish to personally support and participate in such recoveries\, and a list of food festivals held across the continent to honor and enjoy some of the country’s most iconic foods\, from crab cakes to maple syrup and file gumbo. \nOrganized by food nations named for the ecological and cultural keystone foods of each region–Salmon Nation\, Bison Nation\, Chile Pepper Nation\, Cornbread Nation\, among others–this book offers you an altogether fresh perspective on the culinary traditions of North America. After savoring this book\, you will never look at the geography of food–or the necessity of conserving the biocultural foundation of culinary diversity–the same way again. \nBibliographic details \n\nTitle\n\n\n\nRenewing America’s food traditions: saving and savoring the continent’s most endangered foods\n\n\n\n\n\nSubjects\n\n\n\nCooking\, American\n\n\nEndangered plants — United States\n\n\nEndangered species — United States\n\n\n\n\n\nNotes\n\n\n\nIncludes bibliographical references and index.\n\n\n\n\n\nContents\n\n\n\nForeword / Deborah Madison — Introduction / Gary Paul Nabhan — TheFood Nations of North America — About RAFT’s Founding Partners — 1. Acorn nation — 2. Bison nation — 3. Chestnut nation — 4. Chile pepper nation — 5. Clambake nation — 6. Cornbread nation — 7. Crabcake nation — 8. Gumbo nation — 9. Maple syrup nation — 10. Moose nation — 11. Pinyon nut nation — 12. Salmon nation — 13. Wild rice nation — Epilogue: gone but not forgotten; the continentwide extinction of the passenger pigeon — Appendix 1. RAFT List of Foods at Risk in North America — Appendix 2. RAFT Toolkit for Community-Based Conservation and Evaluation of Traditional Foods.\n\n\n\n\n\nSummary\n\n\n\n“Renewing America’s Food Traditions is a beautifully illustrated and dramatic call to recognize\, celebrate\, and conserve the great diversity of foods that gives North America its distinctive culinary identity and reflects our multicultural heritage. It offers us rich natural and cultural histories as well as recipes and folk traditions associated with the rarest food plants and animals in North America. In doing so\, it reminds us that what we choose to eat can either conserve or deplete the cornucopia of our continent.” “While offering a eulogy to a once-common game food that has gone extinct – the passenger pigeon – the book doesn’t dwell on tragic losses. Instead\, it highlights the success stories of food recovery\, habitat restoration\, and market revitalization that chefs\, farmers\, ranchers\, fishermen\, and foresters have recently achieved. Through such “food parables\,” editor Gary Paul Nabhan and his colleagues build a persuasive argument for eater-based conservation.”–Jacket.\n\n\n\n\n\nPublisher\n\n\n\nWhite River Junction\, Vt. : Chelsea Green Pub. Co.\n\n\n\n\n\nCreation Date\n\n\n\n©2008\n\n\n\n\n\nFormat\n\n\n\nxiv\, 304 pages : illustrations (chiefly color)\, color maps ; 23 cm.\n\n\n\n\n\nContributors\n\n\n\nGary Paul Nabhan \n\n\nAshley Rood \n\n\nDeborah Madison \n\n\n\n\n\nLanguage\n\n\n\nEnglish\n\n\n\n\n\nIdentifier\n\n\n\nISBN : 9781933392899\n\n\nISBN : 1933392894\n\n\nDewey : 641.5973\n\n\nLC : TX715 .R42157 2008\n\n\n\n\n\nOCLC Number\n\n\n\n190620179\n\n\n\nBook Review \nAn Unlikely Way to Save a Species: Serve It for Dinner\, by Kim Severson New York Times\, April 30\, 2008 \n“The Makah ozette potato\, a nutty fingerling with such a rich\, creamy texture that it needs only a whisper of oil\, is one of the success stories. It is named after the Makah Indians\, who live at the northwest tip of Washington state and have been growing the potatoes for more than 200 years.” \n  \nA Talk with Gary Paul Nabhan \nA talk with Gary Paul Nabhan\, Arab-American writer and food and farming advocate. Nabhan spoke at a fundraising event to support opportunities for undergraduate English majors at Arizona State University. “Seeding the Future” is sponsored by ASU’s Department of English in the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences\, to benefit students majoring in English by funding opportunities for research\, presentations\, and travel during their undergraduate experience at ASU. Nabhan is the author of “Where Our Food Comes From\,” “Renewing America’s Food Traditions: Saving and Savoring the Continent’s Most Endangered Foods\,” “Arab/American: Landscape\, Culture\, and Cuisine in Two Great Deserts\,” and more. He is perhaps best known in the southwest for his 1982 book\, “The Desert Smells Like Rain.” \nOn Goodreads\nJan 31\, 2017 Dave:\nI really like the idea of this book. I was hoping there’d be a little more to it though. When you first open it you realize that each “food nation” only focuses on a handful of foods. It doesn’t exactly do the best job of summarizing traditional diets or bioregional lifestyles. There’s some interesting history\, nice photos and recipes that encourage people to try unfamiliar ingredients but putting all the emphasis on the most endangered foods rather than the most practical wasn’t the best choice in my opinion. Including a list of endangered varieties and breeds is great. We definitely need to reverse the trend of growing only “the best” variety of each crop wherever it grows most productively and shipping it thousands of miles to consumers. We really do need to bring back the plants and animals that are most hardy to our local conditions. However\, we need a clearer picture of what fully localized economies look like and this book falls way short of that\, unfortunately. More \nSlow Food USA blog post about this book: NEW ANALYSIS OF AT-RISK FOODS IN NORTH AMERICA\, Apr. 20\, 2008 \n  URL:https://www.oldsf.bmkt.net/event/book-group-renewing-americas-food-traditions-by-gary-nabhan-ed/ LOCATION:Top of Swain Woods\, 7403 Palm Ave\, Sebastopol\, CA\, 95472\, United States CATEGORIES:Book Group ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://www.oldsf.bmkt.net/wp/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/Renewing-Composite.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20181028T150000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20181028T180000 DTSTAMP:20260513T044920 CREATED:20180928T233613Z LAST-MODIFIED:20181030T235933Z UID:8105-1540738800-1540749600@www.oldsf.bmkt.net SUMMARY:Slow Salon with Applause For Apples DESCRIPTION:[vc_row type=”in_container” full_screen_row_position=”middle” scene_position=”center” text_color=”dark” text_align=”left” overlay_strength=”0.3″][vc_column column_padding=”no-extra-padding” column_padding_position=”all” background_color_opacity=”1″ background_hover_color_opacity=”1″ column_shadow=”none” width=”1/1″ tablet_text_alignment=”default” phone_text_alignment=”default” column_border_width=”none” column_border_style=”solid”][vc_column_text]\nSlow Salon: Applause for Apples – In Praise of the First Fruit\nJoin other members and supporters of Slow Food Russian River for the Fall 2018 Slow Salon\, Applause for Apples – In Praise of the First Fruit. The theme is Biodiversity in Apples and the occasion is the closing of our Sebastopol Community Apple Press\, the day before the event\, Saturday October 27th. \n• Members: Free or give a donation to support the work of Slow Food Russian River for biodiversity in our food system. \n• Non-member Supporters: Give a donation to support the work of Slow Food Russian River for biodiversity in our food system[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row type=”in_container” full_screen_row_position=”middle” scene_position=”center” text_color=”dark” text_align=”left” overlay_strength=”0.3″][vc_column column_padding=”no-extra-padding” column_padding_position=”all” background_color_opacity=”1″ background_hover_color_opacity=”1″ column_shadow=”none” width=”1/1″ tablet_text_alignment=”default” phone_text_alignment=”default” column_border_width=”none” column_border_style=”solid”][vc_column_text][/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row type=”in_container” full_screen_row_position=”middle” scene_position=”center” text_color=”dark” text_align=”left” overlay_strength=”0.3″][vc_column column_padding=”no-extra-padding” column_padding_position=”all” background_color_opacity=”1″ background_hover_color_opacity=”1″ column_shadow=”none” width=”1/1″ tablet_text_alignment=”default” phone_text_alignment=”default” column_border_width=”none” column_border_style=”solid”][vc_column_text]Food: Please bring a appetizer or dessert for 6 and/or a beverage.[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row type=”in_container” full_screen_row_position=”middle” scene_position=”center” text_color=”dark” text_align=”left” overlay_strength=”0.3″][vc_column column_padding=”no-extra-padding” column_padding_position=”all” background_color_opacity=”1″ background_hover_color_opacity=”1″ column_shadow=”none” width=”1/1″ tablet_text_alignment=”default” phone_text_alignment=”default” column_border_width=”none” column_border_style=”solid”][vc_column_text]\nProgram for Applause for Apples\nSlow Food members will give brief personal stories on: \n• How I traveled the world in support of food-diversity (Ian McFaul)\n• How I became an apple grower and where am I going with this (Laura Cheever)\n• How I planted and took care of my home orchard (Keith Borglum) Keith’s Handout Home Orchard Resources\n• How I went back to school and learned all about growing apples (Carole Flaherty)\n• How I brought my cider business to the next level (Jolie Devoto-Wade of Golden State Cider)[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row type=”in_container” full_screen_row_position=”middle” scene_position=”center” text_color=”dark” text_align=”left” overlay_strength=”0.3″][vc_column column_padding=”no-extra-padding” column_padding_position=”all” background_color_opacity=”1″ background_hover_color_opacity=”1″ column_shadow=”none” width=”1/1″ tablet_text_alignment=”default” phone_text_alignment=”default” column_border_width=”none” column_border_style=”solid”][vc_column_text]Thank you to our sponsor\, Golden State Cider\, for their generous pour. See also our photo essay about the company by Michael Elinson. \n  \n \n[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row] URL:https://www.oldsf.bmkt.net/event/slow-salon-with-applause-for-apples/ LOCATION:Private Home in Occidental ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://www.oldsf.bmkt.net/wp/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/applause-combo.jpg ORGANIZER;CN="Slow Food Russian River":MAILTO:russianriverca@slowfoodusa.org END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20181013T090000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20181013T130000 DTSTAMP:20260513T044920 CREATED:20180805T191608Z LAST-MODIFIED:20180930T201014Z UID:7919-1539421200-1539435600@www.oldsf.bmkt.net SUMMARY:Honoring the Whole Animal DESCRIPTION:[vc_row type=”in_container” full_screen_row_position=”middle” scene_position=”center” text_color=”dark” text_align=”left” overlay_strength=”0.3″][vc_column column_padding=”no-extra-padding” column_padding_position=”all” background_color_opacity=”1″ background_hover_color_opacity=”1″ column_shadow=”none” width=”1/1″ tablet_text_alignment=”default” phone_text_alignment=”default” column_border_width=”none” column_border_style=”solid”][vc_column_text css=”.vc_custom_1538336511995{background-color: #9fd677 !important;}”]There is NO ENTRY FEE.  Often special events have entry fees and parking fees.  We don’t.  The 4-H animals are free to enjoy.  All the vendors will be selling their stuff.   It would be a perfect place to purchase Christmas gifts – handmade by local artists. \nKids of all ages.  “Whenever I had animals at the farmers market kids of all ages loved it” says Paula Downing\, organizer of the event and former manager of the Sebastopol Farmers’ Market.  “So few kids have any relationship with farm animals.   My strongest memory is of a teenage girl petting an Angora bunny and being astounded that her sweater was made from bunny hair.”\n[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row type=”in_container” full_screen_row_position=”middle” scene_position=”center” text_color=”dark” text_align=”left” overlay_strength=”0.3″ shape_divider_position=”bottom”][vc_column column_padding=”no-extra-padding” column_padding_position=”all” background_color_opacity=”1″ background_hover_color_opacity=”1″ column_shadow=”none” width=”1/1″ tablet_text_alignment=”default” phone_text_alignment=”default” column_border_width=”none” column_border_style=”solid” column_border_radius=”none”][vc_column_text]\nHonoring the Whole Animal\nSaturday\, October 13th\, 2018 \n\n\nSanta Rosa Community Farmers’ Market\n1351 Maple Avenue\n1351 Maple Avenue\, Santa Rosa\, CA 95404\n\n\n9 am – 1 pm ♥ Admission is FREE \nAt our upcoming event “Honoring the Whole Animal” meet and fall in love with \n♥ Sonoma County small and dedicated meat producers (pork\, chicken\, duck\, beef\, lamb). Inform yourself what eating clean\, responsibly raised local meat and dairy means for your health and well being. Learn of the connection between grass-fed-and-finished as opposed to feedlot-fed animals\, soil health\, and climate change \n♥ Local talented wool and fiber artists. Learn all about the local Fibershed Movement \n♥ Our cheese\, ice cream\, and yogurt makers.  Get the opportunity to taste dairy produced right here in Sonoma County. \n♥ Talk to 4-H kids who will show their bunnies\, turkeys\, sheep\, and pet them\, (the animals\, not the kids 🙂 ) \nEducation – learn to make sausage\, spin\, knit\, weave \nTasting – meatballs\, artisan cheeses\, ice cream \nRiding and petting – ponies\, sheep\, cows \nMuch MORE \nBrought to you by Slow Food Russian River with support by the Agricultural Community Events Farmers Market\, Farm Trails\, and Sonoma County 4-H. \nParticipating producers include Bodega Pastures\, Olivet Ranch\, Heartfelt Farm\, Wild Oat Hollow\, Heather’s Custom Meats\, Green Start Farm\, The Bone Broth Company\, Strauss Creamery\, Wyammy Ranch\, Wats Treen (Woodware for Spinners\, Reenactors & Householders\, Tom Spittler)\, and more TBA[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row type=”in_container” full_screen_row_position=”middle” scene_position=”center” text_color=”dark” text_align=”left” overlay_strength=”0.3″ shape_divider_position=”bottom”][vc_column column_padding=”no-extra-padding” column_padding_position=”all” background_color_opacity=”1″ background_hover_color_opacity=”1″ column_shadow=”none” width=”1/1″ tablet_text_alignment=”default” phone_text_alignment=”default” column_border_width=”none” column_border_style=”solid” column_border_radius=”none”][vc_column_text]\n \n[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row] URL:https://www.oldsf.bmkt.net/event/honoring-the-whole-animal/ LOCATION:Santa Rosa Community Farmers’ Market\, 1351 Maple Avenue\, Santa Rosa\, CA\, 95404\, United States ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://www.oldsf.bmkt.net/wp/wp-content/uploads/2018/08/featured-image.jpg ORGANIZER;CN="Slow Food Russian River":MAILTO:russianriverca@slowfoodusa.org END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20181004T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20181004T210000 DTSTAMP:20260513T044920 CREATED:20180212T025611Z LAST-MODIFIED:20180222T223752Z UID:7225-1538679600-1538686800@www.oldsf.bmkt.net SUMMARY:Book Group: The New Food Activism\, by Alison Alkon and‎ Julie Guthman (eds.) DESCRIPTION:The Slow Food Russian River Book Group will be discussing The New Food Activism: Opposition\, Cooperation\, and Collective Action\, by Alison Alkon and Julie Guthman (eds.) (University of California Press\, 2017). \nThe Book Group meets the first Thursday of the month\, 7 – 9pm\, usually in Sebastopol. It’s a convivial dinner. Please bring a dish for four and a beverage. \nPlease RSVP on Meetup and spread the word about this Book Group. Location revealed on Meetup. \nMembership\nTo be a member of the Book Group you don’t need to be a member of Slow Food\, although – of course – we hope that with time you will become one. \nAbout the Editors \nAlison Hope Alkon is Associate Professor of Sociology and cofounder of the master’s degree program in food studies at the University of the Pacific. She is the author of Black\, White\, and Green: Farmers Markets\, Race\, and the Green Economy and coeditor of Cultivating Food Justice: Race\, Class\, and Sustainability. \nJulie Guthman is Professor of Social Sciences at the University of California\, Santa Cruz. She is the author of Agrarian Dreams: The Paradox of Organic Farming in California and Weighing In: Obesity\, Food Justice\, and the Limits of Capitalism. \nPublishers Blurb of The New Food Activism: Opposition\, Cooperation\, and Collective Action \nThe New Food Activism explores how food activism can be pushed toward deeper and more complex engagement with social\, racial\, and economic justice and toward advocating for broader and more transformational shifts in the food system. Topics examined include struggles against pesticides and GMOs\, efforts to improve workers’ pay and conditions throughout the food system\, and ways to push food activism beyond its typical reliance on individualism\, consumerism\, and private property. The authors challenge and advance existing cont. \nBibliographic details \n\n\n\nTitle\n\n\n\nThe new food activism: opposition\, cooperation\, and collective action\n\n\n\n\n\nOther Titles\n\n\n\nNew Food Activism\n\n\n\n\n\nSubjects\n\n\n\nFood security — United States\n\n\nSustainable agriculture — Social aspects — United States\n\n\nOrganic farming — United States\n\n\nFood — Political aspects\n\n\nFood consumption — United States\n\n\nSocial justice — United States\n\n\n\n\n\nDescription\n\n\n\nIntroduction / Alison Hope Alkon and Julie Guthman — Taking a different tack: pesticide regulatory reform activism in California / Jill Lindsey Harrison — How canadian farmers fought and won the battle against GM wheat / Emily Eaton — How midas lost its golden touch: neoliberalism and activist strategy in the demise of methyl iodide in California / Julie Guthman and Sandy Brown — Resetting the good food table: labor and foodjustice alliances in Los Angeles / Joshua Sbicca — Food workers and consumers organizing together for foodjustice / Joann Lo and Biko Koenig — Farmworker-led food movements then and now: the united farmworkers\, the coalition of Immokalee workers\, and the potential for farm labor justice / Laura-Anne Minkoff-Zern — Collective purchase: food cooperatives and their pursuit of justice / Andrew Zitcer — Collectivizing markets to strengthen communities: cooperative social practices\, self-determination\, and the struggle for food justice in Oakland and Chicago / Meliza Figuoera and Alison Hope Alkon — Urban agriculture\, food justice\, and neoliberal urbanization: rebuilding the institution of property /Michelle Glowa — Boston’s emerging food solidarity economy / Penn Loh and Julian Agyeman — Grounding the US food movement: bringing land into food justice / Tanya M. Kerssen and Zoe W. Brent — Conclusion: a new food politics / Alison Hope Alkon and Julie Guthman.\n\n\nIncludes bibliographical references and index.\n\n\nElectronic reproduction. Ann Arbor\, MI\n\n\n\n\n\nRelated Titles\n\n\n\nPrint version: New food activism. Oakland\, California : University of California Press\, [2017]\n\n\n\n\n\nPublisher\n\n\n\nOakland\, California : University of California Press\n\n\n\n\n\nCreation Date\n\n\n\n2017\n\n\n\n\n\nFormat\n\n\n\n1 online resource ( viii\, 336 pages).\n\n\n\n\n\nContributors\n\n\n\nAlison Hope Alkon editor.\n\n\nJulie Guthman editor.\n\n\nProQuest (Firm)\n\n\n\n\n\nLanguage\n\n\n\nEnglish\n\n\n\n\n\nIdentifier\n\n\n\nISBN : 9780520965652\n\n\nISBN : 0520965655\n\n\nDewey : 338.1/973\n\n\n\n\n\nInstitution Zone MMS ID\n\n\n\n991008426314202921\n\n\n\n\n\nNetwork Zone MMS ID\n\n\n\n991067832955102901\n\n\n\n\n\nGenre (old)\n\n\n\nElectronic books\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nSource\n\n\nCalifornia State University\n\n\n\nContents of The New Food Activism \nPreface \n1 • Introduction 1\nAlison Hope Alkon and Julie Guthman \nPart One: Regulatory Campaigns \n2 • Taking a Different Tack: Pesticide Regulatory-Reform Activism in California\nJill Lindsey Harrison \n\nPesticide drift—the offsite\, airborne movement of pesticides away from their target location—has become an increasingly controversial issue at the urban–agricultural interface\, particularly in the wake of the large-scale drift incidents that have occurred every year or two since 1999 in California’s southern San Joaquin Valley (Harrison 2011). In each of these large-scale incidents\, up to several hundred workers and residents of farmworker communities have been exposed to highly toxic airborne soil fumigants and/or aerially applied insecticides. These events produce serious acute illness (nausea\, vomiting\, eye and skin irritation\, difficulty breathing) and contribute to the many chronic diseases these… \n\n3 • How Canadian Farmers Fought and Won the Battle against GM Wheat\nEmily Eaton \n\nOn May 10\, 2004\, agricultural giant Monsanto conceded defeat to a coalition of organizations opposing the introduction of transgenic Roundup Ready (RR) wheat in Canada by announcing that it would “discontinue breeding and field level research of Roundup Ready wheat” (Monsanto Company 2004). The withdrawal of RR wheat from North America marked a significant victory for the global movement against genetically modified (GM) crops. One of the world’s most powerful agrochemical companies had decided to abandon commercialization of a crop that it had spent years and significant resources developing and advancing through the Canadian and American regulatory systems. Moreover\, this… \n\n4 • How Midas Lost Its Golden Touch: Neoliberalism and Activist Strategy in the Demise of Methyl Iodide in California\nJulie Guthman and Sandy Brown \n\nIn march 2012\, after more than a decade of seeking regulatory approval for the soil fumigant Midas—registered brand name for methyl iodide—Arysta LifeScience\, the largest privately held agrochemical company in the world\, withdrew it from the United States and other markets. Midas was designed to replace methyl bromide\, a fumigant favored by strawberry growers in California and tomato growers in Florida that was destined for phaseout in compliance with the international Montreal Protocol on Substances that Deplete the Ozone Layer. Methyl iodide was touted as a suitable alternative because it shares important qualities with methyl bromide\, in terms… \n\nPart Two: Working For Workers \n5 • Resetting the “Good Food” Table: Labor and Food Justice Alliances in Los Angeles\nJoshua Sbicca \n\nIn a 2013 public service announcement (PSA) created by the Food Chain Workers Alliance\, titled Guess Who’s Coming to Breakfast\, the son of an interracial couple asks where bacon comes from\, to which they respond\, “It came from the store.” The next moment\, a Black woman walks through the front door and says\, “Wrong again.” Those who have been following the past several decades’ explosive growth of interest in food politics might expect to learn about the farm the pig was raised on\, and the environmental hazards created by corporate-owned factory farms. But this PSA pushes viewers beyond typical food… \n\n\nAdd\n\n6 • Food Workers and Consumers Organizing Together for Food Justice\nJoann Lo and Biko Koenig \nThe popular food movement has made serious inroads into changing the ways our nation thinks about the food we produce\, purchase\, and consume. However\, it often finds its highest expression as a form of individualized consumer politics—voting with your fork—in which the purchasing decisions of individual consumers are lauded as the primary tool for making changes in the food system. As demonstrated in chapter 1\, this politics of consumption elevates the choices of eaters while remaining blind to how front-line communities are engaged in social change processes. In particular\, consumer-centric models ignore the variety of ways that workers… \n7 • Farmworker-Led Food Movements Then and Now: United Farm Workers\, the Coalition of Immokalee Workers\, and the Potential for Farm Labor Justice\nLaura-Anne Minkoff-Zern \n\nIn critical discussions concerning food-movement activism\, the overwhelming emphasis on consumer engagement is often scorned for drawing energy away from the growth of a more politically motivated food movement—one that\, ideally\, would better highlight worker rights\, food access\, and food justice more broadly. Although much food activism is indeed aimed at addressing the needs of relatively wealthy consumers (as suggested in chapter 1)\, this narrative overlooks the historical and present-day instances of consumer-based initiatives aimed at improving working conditions in the fields. In this chapter\, I will outline the history of these initiatives and discuss what the recent success… \n\nPart Three: Collective Practices \n8 • Collective Purchase: Food Cooperatives and Their Pursuit of Justice\nAndrew Zitcer \nShopping for food is an everyday spatial practice. People animate city streets and suburban shopping centers by performing habitual acts of consumption\, loading carts and cars with the things that nourish them and the people they love. Though these activities may be routine\, even banal\, the scale of consumer power they invoke is vast: personal consumption in the United States totaled more than $12 trillion in 2014 (Bureau of Economic Analysis 2014). Depending on how consumers manage their resources\, these banal acts have the potential to either reproduce or transform existing social and economic relations (Hilton 2008). \n9 • Cooperative Social Practices\, Self-Determination\, and the Struggle for Food Justice in Oakland and Chicago\nMeleiza Figueroa and Alison Hope Alkon \n\n\nFor more than two decades now\, academics and activists have engaged in debates about how food movements and alternative food systems should best respond to the challenges of a corporate food regime that is environmentally\, socially\, and\, for all but the most elite actors\, economically destructive (Altieri 2009\, Bell 2010\, McMichael 2009\, Perfecto et al. 2009\, Shiva 1991). Farmers and entrepreneurs have developed alternative food systems that emphasize the ethics and quality of their local\, organic\, artisanal\, and fair trade goods\, while activists have worked to create support for these products and their distribution networks (Goodman et al. 2012\, Hinrichs… \n\n\n10 • Urban Agriculture\, Food Justice\, and Neoliberal Urbanization: Rebuilding the Institution of Property\nMichelle Glowa \n\nUrban agriculture has arisen as a popular strategy in food movements to build alternatives to industrial food systems. Food justice advocates embrace gardening as one strategy in larger battles to address affordability and access to healthy food\, community self-determination\, and racial and economic inequality. And in the San Francisco Bay Area\, the geographic focus of this chapter\, urban agriculture has gained tremendous popularity\, with hundreds of gardens dotting the landscape. Today’s urban agriculture is situated within a national history in which gardening has been popularized at moments of crisis or social need but only as a form of temporary and… \n\n11 • Boston’s Emerging Food Solidarity Economy\nPenn Loh and Julian Agyeman \nA food justice movement with a difference has been quietly blossoming in Boston. It is springing forth from Roxbury and Dorchester\, two adjoining lower-income neighborhoods of color\, where for decades residents have been organizing and struggling for community control over development. This movement encompasses a variety of initiatives to take back land; to grow\, process\, distribute\, and sell food; and to repurpose organic wastes. It is driven by desires for a more just\, sustainable\, and democratic local food economy. \nOne poignant example is the Garrison-Trotter Farm in Roxbury\, which broke ground in July 2014. This farm was the first to… \n12 • Grounding the U.S. Food Movement: Bringing Land into Food Justice\nTanya M. Kerssen and Zoe W. Brent \n\nAcross the United States—the wealthiest country in the world—people are clamoring for healthy\, affordable food and for the resources to produce it. Over the past two decades\, the U.S. food movement has grown dramatically and has steadily incorporated a broad spectrum of issues\, from labor and environmental struggles to calls for food security\, food justice\, and local\, organic\, non-GMO\, and cruelty-free food. Once concerned primarily with the interests of consumers\, the diverse communities and organizations that make up the U.S. food movement are increasingly drilling down to the deeper capitalist foundations and political–economic contradictions of our food system…. \n\nConclusion \n13 A New Food Politics\nAlison Hope Alkon and Julie Guthman \n\nIn 2006\, when collecting data for her bookBlack\, White\, and Green\, Alison spoke with Kirk\, a manager at the first entirely organic farmers’ market in the United States. Like most of the market’s vendors and customers\, he was white\, college-educated\, and politically progressive. Kirk described the farmers’ market as a way to advocate for a healthy environment while working around\, rather than challenging\, an unresponsive state: \nI think that people continue to work on the government\, but the government hasn’t shown us anything good for an awfully long time. Democrat or Republican\, they still don’t get it.… With the… \n\nContributors\nIndex \nAudio/Video \nJulie Guthman on the Farm To Table Talk Podcast \nAlison Alkon on Farmers Markets\, Food Justice\, and Green Economy \nRecommendations/Reviews \n“A convincing roundup that demonstrates that the food movement is (finally) coming of age\, The New Food Activism is a chronicle of a dozen important victories around agriculture\, justice\, public health\, and more\, which points the way toward a future in which food is increasingly a focus of crucial rights movements. A must-read for food organizers and their allies.”—Mark Bittman\, food columnist and author of How to Cook Everything \n“People want to eat ethically\, and to do that\, they need to care about the well-being of workers throughout the food system. This book highlights a promising direction for food activism\, one that puts the lived experience of those who grow\, cook\, and serve our food at the center of its call for systemic transformation.”— Saru Jayaraman\, author of Forked: A New Standard for American Dining \n“The New Food Activism is one of the most important books on food this century. It is required\, inspiring\, and challenging reading for every student of food\, every ‘foodie\,’ as well as every grower\, worker\, and eater in today’s food system. In this groundbreaking book\, the authors develop a powerful critique of our food system and our mainstream food movements. In the process\, they provide diverse\, inspiring examples of food activism that foreground race and class equity while pushing against industrial\, corporate control of our food. This unique book and the food campaigns it analyzes are critical to the possibility of true food justice. This book nourishes new realities in our food system.”— Seth Holmes\, author of Fresh Fruit\, Broken Bodies: Migrant Farmworkers in the United States URL:https://www.oldsf.bmkt.net/event/book-group-the-new-food-activism/ LOCATION:Private Home in Sebastopol\, Address with RSVP\, Sebastopol\, CA\, 95472\, United States CATEGORIES:Book Group ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://www.oldsf.bmkt.net/wp/wp-content/uploads/2018/02/foodactivismwithwalmartprotest.jpg ORGANIZER;CN="Slow Food Russian River Book Group":MAILTO:sfrrbookgroup@gmail.com END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20180906T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20180906T210000 DTSTAMP:20260513T044920 CREATED:20180620T172358Z LAST-MODIFIED:20180825T222320Z UID:7594-1536260400-1536267600@www.oldsf.bmkt.net SUMMARY:Book Group: In Memoriam Anthony Bourdain\, 1956–2018 DESCRIPTION:For this Book Group meeting\, we will commemorate Anthony Bourdain\, 1956–2018\, by discussing some of his writings\, and a few obituaries. At our Book Group session\, we will watch some of the work he did for television. \nPlease prepare a dish using a Bourdain recipe or otherwise inspired by him. \nReading suggestions (thank you for the helpful input\, Peg) \nReading by Anthony Bourdain\n• Kitchen Confidential: Adventures in the Culinary Underbelly. \n• A Cook’s Tour: In Search of the Perfect Meal.\n•The Nasty Bits. \n• No Reservations: Around the World on an Empty Stomach. \n• Medium Raw: A Bloody Valentine to the World of Food and the People Who Cook.  \nTo prepare: I suggest you pick one and find a passage or story in it that you can talk about. \nReading about Anthony Bourdain\nCollier Meyerson\, Elias Rodriques\, The Church of Food\, On Anthony Bourdain\, 1956–2018. n+1\, June 12\, 2018. \nArun Gupta\, Anthony Bourdain (1956–2018)\, Jacobin\, June 11\, 2018 \nAlison Alkon\, Anthony Bourdain\, America’s gastrodiplomat. New Food Economy\, June 12th\, 2018 \n\nNiraj Chokshi\, ‘Tony Was a Symphony’: Friends and Fans Remember Anthony Bourdain. New York Times\, June 8\, 2018 \n\n\nPatrick Radden Keefe\, Anthony Bourdain’s Moveable Feast. New Yorker\, February 13 & 20\, 2017 Issue \nTo prepare: Pick one or more and have something to share about it. \n\nWhat to watch during our session\nA list from which to choose: Anthony Bourdain Awards IMDb \n  URL:https://www.oldsf.bmkt.net/event/in-memoriam-anthony-bourdain-1956-2018/ LOCATION:Private Home in Sebastopol\, Address with RSVP\, Sebastopol\, CA\, 95472\, United States CATEGORIES:Book Group ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://www.oldsf.bmkt.net/wp/wp-content/uploads/2018/06/Anthony-Bourdain-1956–2018.jpg ORGANIZER;CN="Slow Food Russian River Book Group":MAILTO:sfrrbookgroup@gmail.com END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20180721T160000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20180721T190000 DTSTAMP:20260513T044920 CREATED:20180610T033309Z LAST-MODIFIED:20180717T153314Z UID:7518-1532188800-1532199600@www.oldsf.bmkt.net SUMMARY:Storytelling on Sparrow and Crow Farm DESCRIPTION:The Slow Food Book Group is on summer break but we’d love for you to join us for a picnic and storytelling afternoon at Sparrow and Crow Farm. \nWe’ll share a meal together under Natalie’s redwood trees and informally exchange stories of food\, farming\, and our relationship to the land. \nThen\, while we enjoy coffee and dessert\, we’ll hear storytelling by local food writer Jonah Raskin. \nYou are also encouraged to formally share a story\, prose\, or poem (hopefully one you’ve created) during this storytelling time\, however\, please contact me with your plans before the event so we can make sure enough time is available and I can coordinate the order. \nWhat to bring: a dish to share and a favorite beverage \nCost: There is no charge for this event\, but a basket will be available if you would like to make a donation to Slow Foods Russian River as a thank you for coordinating the Book Club series. \nWho: Attendees don’t need to be current members of the Slow Food Book Group or Slow Food\, so feel free to invite a friend who has an interest in food and farming. \nWhere: We will send you the address of Sparrow and Crow Farm after your RSVP \nRSVP to natalie@sparrowcrowfarm.com We are limiting this event to 20 people\, so please RSVP early!  Directions and parking details will be provided after we hear you can attend. URL:https://www.oldsf.bmkt.net/event/storytelling-on-sparrow-and-crow-farm/ LOCATION:Sparrow and Crow Farm\, Fulton\, CA CATEGORIES:Book Group ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://www.oldsf.bmkt.net/wp/wp-content/uploads/2018/06/chicken.jpg ORGANIZER;CN="Slow Food Russian River Book Group":MAILTO:sfrrbookgroup@gmail.com END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20180624T150000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20180624T180000 DTSTAMP:20260513T044920 CREATED:20180610T163932Z LAST-MODIFIED:20180625T210042Z UID:7489-1529852400-1529863200@www.oldsf.bmkt.net SUMMARY:2018 Summer Gathering DESCRIPTION:[vc_row type=”in_container” full_screen_row_position=”middle” scene_position=”center” text_color=”dark” text_align=”left” overlay_strength=”0.3″ shape_divider_position=”bottom”][vc_column column_padding=”no-extra-padding” column_padding_position=”all” background_color_opacity=”1″ background_hover_color_opacity=”1″ column_shadow=”none” column_border_radius=”none” width=”1/1″ tablet_text_alignment=”default” phone_text_alignment=”default” column_border_width=”none” column_border_style=”solid”][vc_column_text]Join us to celebrate the beauty and bounty of early summer in Sonoma County at our 2018 Summer Gathering on Sunday\, June 24\, 3-6 pm. \nThis is a free event but you need to get a ticket and will have the opportunity to support the work of the chapter by a donation. \n \nMembership: Please check your membership status in the footer of the newsletters you receive from us (where it says “update subscription preferences”). If you need to renew or wish to join do so with  Slow Food USA and mention that your affiliation is with Slow Food Russian River. Link here. \nOur aspirations for this meeting are to have fun\, enjoy each other AND\, of great importance\, to have in-depth conversation about the following: \n• What brought you to Slow Food Russian River?\n• What events and projects do you want to see in the future?\n• What energy\, ingeniousness\, expertise can you lend to our mission of bringing good\, clean and fair food to all who eat? \nOn this beautiful Sunday afternoon\, our unabashed goal is to lure/entice/seduce/beguile/cajole more of you to participate in the heart of our work. \nA potluck dinner will follow a discussion of the Calendar of events for the remainder of 2018\, the chapter current needs and how you might plug in\, and a fun exercise of what brought you to Slow Food Russian River. \nPlease bring your own table service\, plate\, silverware\, glass and napkin. Please bring a side dish\, appetizer\, or dessert to share. The chapter is providing a winery pour\, beer and cider too. We will also supply a main dish for the potluck\, a cucumber or lemon water dispenser and non alcoholic drinks. \nBring a friend who is interested in learning more about Slow Food Russian River.[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row type=”in_container” full_screen_row_position=”middle” scene_position=”center” text_color=”dark” text_align=”left” overlay_strength=”0.3″ shape_divider_position=”bottom”][vc_column column_padding=”no-extra-padding” column_padding_position=”all” background_color_opacity=”1″ background_hover_color_opacity=”1″ column_shadow=”none” column_border_radius=”none” width=”1/1″ tablet_text_alignment=”default” phone_text_alignment=”default” column_border_width=”none” column_border_style=”solid”][vc_column_text]\nOur Sponsors\n[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row type=”in_container” full_screen_row_position=”middle” scene_position=”center” text_color=”dark” text_align=”left” overlay_strength=”0.3″ shape_divider_position=”bottom”][vc_column 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column_border_width=”none” column_border_style=”solid”][vc_column_text][/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row] URL:https://www.oldsf.bmkt.net/event/2018-summer-gathering/ LOCATION:2018 Summer Gathering\, 6300 Vine Hill School Rd\,\, Sebastopol\, CA\, 95472\, United States CATEGORIES:Summer Meeting ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://www.oldsf.bmkt.net/wp/wp-content/uploads/2018/06/summer-gathering-web.jpg ORGANIZER;CN="Slow Food Russian River":MAILTO:russianriverca@slowfoodusa.org END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20180623T170000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20180623T193000 DTSTAMP:20260513T044920 CREATED:20180618T172648Z LAST-MODIFIED:20180627T163534Z UID:7559-1529773200-1529782200@www.oldsf.bmkt.net SUMMARY:Honoree Dinner at Estero Cafe in Valley Ford DESCRIPTION:[vc_row type=”in_container” full_screen_row_position=”middle” scene_position=”center” text_color=”dark” text_align=”left” overlay_strength=”0.3″ shape_divider_position=”bottom”][vc_column 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RSVP with Paula Downing who can be emailed at hotpeppers (at) pon.net. Let her know if you wish the vegetarian option.[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row type=”in_container” full_screen_row_position=”middle” scene_position=”center” text_color=”dark” text_align=”left” bottom_padding=”-300″ overlay_strength=”0.3″ shape_divider_position=”bottom” shape_type=””][vc_column column_padding=”no-extra-padding” column_padding_position=”all” background_color_opacity=”1″ background_hover_color_opacity=”1″ column_shadow=”none” column_border_radius=”none” width=”1/1″ tablet_text_alignment=”default” phone_text_alignment=”default” column_border_width=”none” column_border_style=”solid”][vc_column_text]The Honorees[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row type=”in_container” full_screen_row_position=”middle” scene_position=”center” text_color=”dark” text_align=”left” overlay_strength=”0.3″ shape_divider_position=”bottom”][vc_column column_padding=”no-extra-padding” column_padding_position=”all” background_color_opacity=”1″ background_hover_color_opacity=”1″ column_shadow=”none” column_border_radius=”none” width=”1/4″ tablet_text_alignment=”default” phone_text_alignment=”default” column_border_width=”none” column_border_style=”solid”][vc_column_text][/vc_column_text][/vc_column][vc_column column_padding=”no-extra-padding” column_padding_position=”all” background_color_opacity=”1″ background_hover_color_opacity=”1″ column_shadow=”none” column_border_radius=”none” width=”3/4″ tablet_text_alignment=”default” phone_text_alignment=”default” column_border_width=”none” column_border_style=”solid”][vc_column_text]Julie Atwood \nJulie Atwood is\, simply stated\, a great woman who has been doing consistent work for the agricultural community with immense love for many decades. She is also a horse lover – a character trait that deserves great honor all by itself.[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row type=”in_container” full_screen_row_position=”middle” scene_position=”center” text_color=”dark” text_align=”left” overlay_strength=”0.3″ shape_divider_position=”bottom”][vc_column column_padding=”no-extra-padding” column_padding_position=”all” background_color_opacity=”1″ background_hover_color_opacity=”1″ column_shadow=”none” column_border_radius=”none” width=”1/4″ tablet_text_alignment=”default” phone_text_alignment=”default” column_border_width=”none” column_border_style=”solid”][vc_column_text][/vc_column_text][/vc_column][vc_column column_padding=”no-extra-padding” column_padding_position=”all” background_color_opacity=”1″ background_hover_color_opacity=”1″ column_shadow=”none” column_border_radius=”none” width=”3/4″ tablet_text_alignment=”default” phone_text_alignment=”default” column_border_width=”none” column_border_style=”solid”][vc_column_text]Bob Burke \nBob Burke is a zealous\, enthusiastic lover of apples and apple farmers. He is rather a “mad professor” in that he is the creative\, energizing force behind our free Community Apple Press\, free apples for visiting tourists at the Sonoma County Airport among other projects. You can find him faithfully operating our free apple press at Luther Burbank Farm and the Gravenstein Apple Fair.[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row type=”in_container” full_screen_row_position=”middle” scene_position=”center” text_color=”dark” text_align=”left” overlay_strength=”0.3″ shape_divider_position=”bottom”][vc_column column_padding=”no-extra-padding” column_padding_position=”all” background_color_opacity=”1″ background_hover_color_opacity=”1″ column_shadow=”none” column_border_radius=”none” width=”1/4″ tablet_text_alignment=”default” phone_text_alignment=”default” column_border_width=”none” column_border_style=”solid”][vc_column_text][/vc_column_text][/vc_column][vc_column column_padding=”no-extra-padding” column_padding_position=”all” background_color_opacity=”1″ background_hover_color_opacity=”1″ column_shadow=”none” column_border_radius=”none” width=”3/4″ tablet_text_alignment=”default” phone_text_alignment=”default” column_border_width=”none” column_border_style=”solid”][vc_column_text]Sue Deevy \nSue Deevy was a faithful\, devoted member of our SFRR Leadership Team for many years.   She continues to work as a dedicated member of our Apple Core\, using her decades of experience in the food industry to keep us going forward as a force for good in support of local apples and apple farmers.[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row type=”in_container” full_screen_row_position=”middle” scene_position=”center” text_color=”dark” text_align=”left” overlay_strength=”0.3″ shape_divider_position=”bottom”][vc_column column_padding=”no-extra-padding” column_padding_position=”all” background_color_opacity=”1″ background_hover_color_opacity=”1″ column_shadow=”none” column_border_radius=”none” width=”1/4″ tablet_text_alignment=”default” phone_text_alignment=”default” column_border_width=”none” column_border_style=”solid”][vc_column_text][/vc_column_text][/vc_column][vc_column column_padding=”no-extra-padding” column_padding_position=”all” background_color_opacity=”1″ background_hover_color_opacity=”1″ column_shadow=”none” column_border_radius=”none” width=”3/4″ tablet_text_alignment=”default” phone_text_alignment=”default” column_border_width=”none” column_border_style=”solid”][vc_column_text]Jim Reichardt \nJim Reichardt is Liberty Duck.   He inherited a love of ducks from his ancestors and continues bringing good\, clean and fair duck to appreciative eaters throughout the country.   He was a member of the SFRR Leadership Team for over a decade bringing great fun\, inspiration and love to all those who cross his path.[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row type=”in_container” full_screen_row_position=”middle” scene_position=”center” text_color=”dark” text_align=”left” overlay_strength=”0.3″ shape_divider_position=”bottom”][vc_column column_padding=”no-extra-padding” column_padding_position=”all” background_color_opacity=”1″ background_hover_color_opacity=”1″ column_shadow=”none” column_border_radius=”none” width=”1/4″ tablet_text_alignment=”default” phone_text_alignment=”default” column_border_width=”none” column_border_style=”solid”][vc_column_text][/vc_column_text][/vc_column][vc_column column_padding=”no-extra-padding” column_padding_position=”all” background_color_opacity=”1″ background_hover_color_opacity=”1″ column_shadow=”none” column_border_radius=”none” width=”3/4″ tablet_text_alignment=”default” phone_text_alignment=”default” column_border_width=”none” column_border_style=”solid”][vc_column_text]Paula Shatkin \nPaula Shatkin has been a dedicated\, committed\, inspired member of our SFRR leadership team for 16 year. An advocate for local biodiversity\, she started the Gravenstein Apple Presidium\, the first Slow Food Presidium project in California\, and one of only five Presidia in the U.S.\, and continues to lead the work of our Apple Core on behalf of saving local apples and apple farmers. \n[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row type=”in_container” full_screen_row_position=”middle” scene_position=”center” text_color=”dark” text_align=”left” overlay_strength=”0.3″ shape_divider_position=”bottom”][vc_column column_padding=”no-extra-padding” column_padding_position=”all” background_color_opacity=”1″ background_hover_color_opacity=”1″ column_shadow=”none” column_border_radius=”none” width=”1/4″ tablet_text_alignment=”default” phone_text_alignment=”default” column_border_width=”none” column_border_style=”solid”][vc_column_text][/vc_column_text][/vc_column][vc_column column_padding=”no-extra-padding” column_padding_position=”all” background_color_opacity=”1″ background_hover_color_opacity=”1″ column_shadow=”none” column_border_radius=”none” width=”3/4″ tablet_text_alignment=”default” phone_text_alignment=”default” column_border_width=”none” column_border_style=”solid”][vc_column_text]Catherine Thode \nCatherine Thode has been our connection with local 4-H youth who raise turkeys for our heritage turkey project.   Willi Bird Turkeys began as a 4-H project several decades ago. 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You will get a Passport to the different destinations on the farm. Don’t forget to ask the border guard to stamp your passport as proof you did the activity. \nStrawberry Patch \nStrawberry Art \nTasting Four Varieties \nSweet & Savory \nAssembling Your Own Treat \n Sounds of the Farm \nStrawberry Run \nAnd you will learn the important strawberry words so you can talk like a strawberry farmer. \nWe will be on a working farm; sturdy closed toed shoes and sun protection are highly recommended.  Parents: plan to carry small children as the farm is not very stroller or wheelchair accessible.\n\n\n\n[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row type=”in_container” full_screen_row_position=”middle” scene_position=”center” text_color=”dark” text_align=”left” overlay_strength=”0.3″ shape_divider_position=”bottom”][vc_column column_padding=”padding-5-percent” column_padding_position=”all” background_color_opacity=”1″ background_hover_color_opacity=”1″ column_shadow=”none” column_border_radius=”none” width=”1/1″ tablet_text_alignment=”default” 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DESCRIPTION:The Slow Food Russian River Book Group will be discussing What We Eat When We Eat Alone: Stories and 100 Recipes\, by Deborah Madison and Patrick McFarlin (Gibbs Smith\, 2009) on Thursday\, June 7\, 7-9 pm. \nDeborah Madison writes on her website: Not all meals are shared\, recipes don’t always matter\, nor does all the knowledge we may have about cooking and eating. What We Eat When We Eat Alone sneaks a look at our solitary doings in the kitchen when no one else is there to watch or comment and uncovers an often humorous glimpse of unfettered human activity. What We Eat When We Eat Alone grew out of Patrick McFarlin’s habit of questioning chefs and food writers about their solitary practices when we were traveling as part of Oldways Preservation and Trust’s food think tank. More… \nThe Book Group meets the first Thursday of the month\, 7 – 9pm\, usually in Sebastopol. It’s a convivial dinner. Please bring a side dish or dessert for four and a beverage. \nTo RSVP and get directions please email the SFRR Book Group  If you have not attended the Book Group before please tell a bit about yourself. Same if you wish to receive the newsletter of the Book Group. \nMembership\nTo be a member of the Book Group you don’t need to be a member of Slow Food\, although – of course – we hope that with time you will become one. \nAbout Deborah Madison\nDeborah Madison is the author of nine cookbooks and countless articles on food\, cooking\, and farming. Her books have been honored with two Julia Child Cookbook of the Year awards and four James Beard awards\, among others. Deborah is a longtime active leader in slow food and she sits on the board of the Seed Savers Exchange. She lives in Galisteo\, New Mexico\, with her husband\, Patrick McFarlin. \nAbout Patrick McFarlin\nPatrick McFarlin is a journeyman painter and graphic designer. His fine art has been shown in New York\, San Francisco\, Houston\, Scottsdale\, and Santa Fe\, among other cities. He is the creator of Pat’s Downtown Club\, featured on CBS Sunday Morning. He has received numerous awards and fellowships for his painting. He works out of his studio in Santa Fe\, New Mexico. \nPublishers Blurb\nPublishers Blurb of What we eat when we eat alone\, by Deborah Madison and Patrick McFarlin \nRenowned vegetarian cookbook auhor Deborah Madison set out to learn what people chew on when there isn’t anyone else around. The responses are surprising—and we aren’t just talking take-out or leftovers. This is food-gone-wild in its most elemental form. \nIn a conversational tone\, What We Eat When We Eat Alone explores the joys and sorrows of eating solo and gives a glimpse into the lives of everyday people and their relationships with food. \nThe book is illustrated with the delightful art of Patrick McFarlin\, and each chapter ends with recipes for those who dine alone. \nReviews of What we eat when we eat alone\n• ‘What We Eat When We Eat Alone’ by Deborah Madison\, By Mary MacVean\, July 08\, 2009 | 12:00 AM LA Times \n\n• Host Liane Hansen discusses the quirks of solo dining with Deborah Madison and Patrick McFarlin\, the author and the illustrator of the new book\, What We Eat When We Eat Alone. NPR\, July 5\, 2009\, 8:00 AM ET (Weekend Edition Sunday) \n• Linda Falkenstein in Isthmus | Madison\, Wisconsin\, January 27\, 2010: Cookbooks are so often about the ideal we have of food. From Julia Child’s Mastering the Art of French Cooking onward\, cookbooks have given us the means to elevate what we serve at home. Then there’s the reality. If you’re solo — if you live alone or if you find yourself single while your usual living and dining partner is away on a business trip — and the kitchen is suddenly yours alone\, what do you cook? More… \n  \n  URL:https://www.oldsf.bmkt.net/event/what-we-eat-when-we-eat-alone/ CATEGORIES:Book Group ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://www.oldsf.bmkt.net/wp/wp-content/uploads/2018/04/What-we-eat-when-we-eat-alone-by-Deborah-Madison-and-Patrick-McFarlin.jpg ORGANIZER;CN="Slow Food Russian River Book Group":MAILTO:sfrrbookgroup@gmail.com END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20180503T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20180503T210000 DTSTAMP:20260513T044920 CREATED:20180303T042336Z LAST-MODIFIED:20180303T043034Z UID:7256-1525374000-1525381200@www.oldsf.bmkt.net SUMMARY:Book Group: Foodopoly\, by Wenonah Hauter DESCRIPTION:The Slow Food Russian River Book Group will be discussing Foodopoly: The Battle Over the Future of Food and Farming in America\, by Wenonah Hauter (William Morrow\, 2018) on Thursday\, May 3\, 7-9 pm. \nThe Book Group meets the first Thursday of the month\, 7 – 9pm\, usually in Sebastopol. It’s a convivial dinner. Please bring a side dish or dessert for four and a beverage. \nTo RSVP and get directions please email the SFRR Book Group If you have not attended the Book Group before please tell a bit about yourself. Same if you wish receive the newsletter of the Book Group. \nMembership\nTo be a member of the Book Group you don’t need to be a member of Slow Food\, although – of course – we hope that with time you will become one. \nAbout Wenonah Hauter \nWenonah Hauter is the founder and executive director of Food & Water Watch and Food & Water Action Fund. Wenonah has three decades of experience campaigning and writing on food\, water\, energy and environmental issues. She has trained and mentored hundreds of organizers and activists across the country and worked at the national\, state and local levels to develop policy positions and legislative and field strategies to secure real wins for communities and the environment. \nFrom 1997 to 2005 she served as Director of Public Citizen’s Energy and Environment Program\, which focused on water\, food and energy policy. More… \nPublishers Blurb of Foodopoly by Wenonah Hauter \nIn the tradition of the bestselling The World According to Monsanto\, Foodopoly tells the shocking story of how agricultural policy has been hijacked by lobbyists\, driving out independent farmers and food processors in favor of companies such as Cargill\, Tyson\, Kraft\, and ConAgra. “A meticulously documented account of how we have lost control of our food system” (Steve Gliessman\, professor emeritus of agro-ecology\, UC–Santa Cruz)\, the book demonstrates how the impacts ripple far and wide\, from economic stagnation in rural communities at home to famines in poor countries overseas. In the end\, author Wenonah Hauter argues that solving this crisis will require a complete structural shift\, a grassroots movement to reshape our food system from seed to table—a change that is about more… \nReviews of Foodopoly by Wenonah Hauter \nBook Review: “Foodopoly\,” by Wenonah Hauter | Civil Eats \n  \n  \n  \n  URL:https://www.oldsf.bmkt.net/event/book-group-foodopoly-wenonah-hauter/ CATEGORIES:Book Group ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://www.oldsf.bmkt.net/wp/wp-content/uploads/2018/03/Wenonah-Hauter-with-cover.jpg ORGANIZER;CN="Slow Food Russian River Book Group":MAILTO:sfrrbookgroup@gmail.com END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20180405T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20180405T210000 DTSTAMP:20260513T044920 CREATED:20180210T181357Z LAST-MODIFIED:20180326T022812Z UID:7214-1522954800-1522962000@www.oldsf.bmkt.net SUMMARY:Book Group: Hippie Food\, by Jonathan Kauffman DESCRIPTION:The Slow Food Russian River Book Group will be discussing Hippie Food: How Back-to-the-Landers\, Longhairs\, and Revolutionaries Changed the Way We Eat\, by Jonathan Kauffman (William Morrow\, 2018) on Thursday\, April 5\, 7-9 pm. \nThe Book Group meets the first Thursday of the month\, 7 – 9pm\, usually in Sebastopol\, but for this session in Rohnert Park. It’s a convivial dinner. Please bring a dish for four and a beverage. \nTo RSVP and get directions please email the SFRR Book Group  If you have not attended the Book Group before please tell a bit about yourself. Same if you wish receive the newsletter of the Book Group. \nMembership \nTo be a member of the Book Group you don’t need to be a member of Slow Food\, although – of course – we hope that with time you will become one. \nAbout Jonathan Kauffman \n\n\n\n\n\n\nJonathan Kauffman grew up in a liberal Mennonite family in Indiana in which headcheese\, scrapple and sauerkraut had been ditched in favor of lentil casseroles and tofu stirfries. (No one could have convinced his parents to give up pie\, however.) \nHe fell in love with restaurants after filling in a few shifts on the dishwashing station at a small bistro in St. Paul\, Minnesota\, back when the balsamic vinegar and sheep’s milk cheese the cooks used were the strangest things he had ever tasted. After college\, he moved to San Francisco and cooked for a number of years\, then left the kitchen for the more lucrative world of journalism. \nJonathan reviewed restaurants in the Bay Area and Seattle for 11 years as the staff critic at the East Bay Express\, the Seattle Weekly\, and SF Weekly. In 2015\, he joined the food section at the San Francisco Chronicle\, where he broadly covers the intersection of food and culture. \nHis reporting and criticism have won awards from the James Beard Foundation\, the California Newspaper Publishers Association\, the International Association of Culinary Professionals\, and the Association of Food Journalists\, among others\, and his articles have been anthologized in several editions of Best Food Writing. \nJonathan has contributed regularly to Tasting Table\, San Francisco magazine\, Wine & Spirits\, and Lucky Peach (RIP)\, and has spoken on numerous radio programs and public events. More… \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nPublishers Blurb of Hippie Food\, by Jonathan Kauffman \nAn enlightening narrative history—an entertaining fusion of Tom Wolfe and Michael Pollan—that traces the colorful origins of once unconventional foods and the diverse fringe movements\, charismatic gurus\, and counterculture elements that brought them to the mainstream and created a distinctly American cuisine. \nFood writer Jonathan Kauffman journeys back more than half a century—to the 1960s and 1970s—to tell the story of how a coterie of unusual men and women embraced an alternative lifestyle that would ultimately change how modern Americans eat. Impeccably researched\, Hippie Food chronicles how the longhairs\, revolutionaries\, and back-to-the-landers rejected the square establishment of President Richard Nixon’s America and turned to a more idealistic and wholesome communal way of life and food. \nFrom the mystical rock-and-roll cult known as the Source Family and its legendary vegetarian restaurant in Hollywood to the Diggers’ brown bread in the Summer of Love to the rise of the co-op and the origins of the organic food craze\, Kauffman reveals how today’s quotidian whole-foods staples—including sprouts\, tofu\, yogurt\, brown rice\, and whole-grain bread—were introduced and eventually became part of our diets. From coast to coast\, through Oregon\, Texas\, Tennessee\, Minnesota\, Michigan\, Massachusetts\, and Vermont\, Kauffman tracks hippie food’s journey from niche oddity to a cuisine that hit every corner of this country. \nA slick mix of gonzo playfulness\, evocative detail\, skillful pacing\, and elegant writing\, Hippie Food is a lively\, engaging\, and informative read that deepens our understanding of our culture and our lives today. \nReviews \nThe Far Out History Of How Hippie Food Spread Across America\, NPR January 23\, 2018 \nBibliographic Details \n\n\n\n\nTitle Hippie food: how back-to-the-landers\, longhairs\, and revolutionaries changed the way we eat\n\n\nAuthor\n\n\n\n Jonathan Kauffman author\n\n\n\n\n\nSubjects\n\n\n\nFood habits — United States — History — 20th century\n\n\nNatural foods — United States — History\n\n\nNatural foods industry — United States — History\n\n\n\n\n\nDescription\n\n\n\nFruits\, seeds\, and (health) nuts in Southern California — Brown rice and the macrobiotic pioneers — Brown bread and the pursuit of wholesomeness — Tofu\, the political dish — Back-to-the-landers and organic farming — Vegetarians on the curry trail — Food co-ops\, social revolutionaries\, and the birth of an industry.\n\n\n“An enlightening narrative history–an entertaining fusion of Tom Wolfe and Michael Pollan–that traces the colorful origins of once unconventional foods and the diverse fringe movements\, charismatic gurus\, and counterculture elements that brought them to the mainstream and created a distinctly American cuisine. Food writer Jonathan Kauffman journeys back more than half a century–to the 1960s and 1970s–to tell the story of how a coterie of unusual men and women embraced an alternative lifestyle that would ultimately change how modern Americans eat. Impeccably researched\, Hippie Food chronicles how the longhairs\, revolutionaries\, and back-to-the-landers rejected the square establishment of President Richard Nixon’s America and turned to a more idealistic and wholesome communal way of life and food. From the mystical rock-and-roll cult known as the Source Family and its legendary vegetarian restaurant in Hollywood to the Diggers’ brown bread in the Summer of Love to the rise of the co-op and the origins of the organic food craze\, Kauffman reveals how today’s quotidian whole-foods staples–including sprouts\, tofu\, yogurt\, brown rice\, and whole-grain bread–were introduced and eventually became part of our diets. From coast to coast\, through Oregon\, Texas\, Tennessee\, Minnesota\, Michigan\, Massachusetts\, and Vermont\, Kauffman tracks hippie food‘s journey from niche oddity to a cuisine that hit every corner of this country. A slick mix of gonzo playfulness\, evocative detail\, skillful pacing\, and elegant writing\, Hippie Food is a lively\, engaging\, and informative read that deepens our understanding of our culture and our lives today.” —\n\n\nIncludes bibliographical reference (pages 293-332) and index.\n\n\nText in English.\n\n\n\n\n\nPublisher\n\n\n\nNew York\, NY : William Morrow\, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers\n\n\n\n\n\nCreation Date\n\n\n\n2018\n\n\n\n\n\nFormat\n\n\n\n344 pages ; 24 cm.\n\n\n\n\n\nLanguage\n\n\n\nEnglish\n\n\n\n\n\nIdentifier\n\n\n\nISBN : 9780062437303\n\n\nISBN : 0062437305\n\n\nDewey : 394.1/20973\n\n\n\n\n\nOCLC Number\n\n\n\n1019909301\n\n\n1002685991 URL:https://www.oldsf.bmkt.net/event/book-group-hippie-food-by-jonathan-kauffman/ LOCATION:Private Home in Rohnert Park\, Rohnert Park\, CA\, United States CATEGORIES:Book Group ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://www.oldsf.bmkt.net/wp/wp-content/uploads/2018/02/Hippie-Food-How-Back-to-the-Landers-Longhairs-and-Revolutionaries-Changed-the-Way-We-Eat-by-Jonathan-Kauffman.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20180324T134500 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20180324T144500 DTSTAMP:20260513T044920 CREATED:20180323T064307Z LAST-MODIFIED:20180323T064352Z UID:7273-1521899100-1521902700@www.oldsf.bmkt.net SUMMARY:Worth Our Weight apprentices demonstrating their Knife Skills DESCRIPTION:Slow Food Russian River is sponsoring apprentices from Worth Our Weight so they can attend the screening of the film Knife Skills at the Sebastopol Documentary Film Festival on Saturday\, March 24\, 2018\, 12:15pm (in the Shorts Program 3) Rialto Cinemas #7. (Details below) \nAfter the screening the students of Worth Our Weight will give a demonstration of their knife skills and hand out samples of their creations\, under the portico in front of Taylor Maid Organic Coffee\, California Sister Floral Design & Supply\, and Reframe Hair Gallery\, 6790 McKinley St #180\, Sebastopol. We thank these local businesses for their community support. \nWorth Our Weight apprentices are young people from 16-24 who have faced major challenges in their lives\, including foster care\, difficulties with the law\, homelessness\, and significant family disruption. It provides culinary and food service training. \nThe film Knife Skills is an 2018 Oscar-nominated documentary about a Cleveland restaurant that trains and employs former inmates. \nWorth Our Weight\nWOW was founded in 2006 by chef Evelyn Cheatham. She was named a “Woman of the Year” by U.S. Rep. Mike Thompson on March 1\, 2016. \nThe goal of the Worth Our Weight is to transform at-risk young adults into food industry professionals in a 12-week boot-camp type training and place them into jobs. We take twelve apprentices per session\, who have faced major challenges in their lives\, including abandonment\, foster care system\, legal difficulties\, homelessness and significant family disruption. Apprentices can live at the W.O.W. house for a nominal fee or on their own. \nThe Worth Our Weight program includes training in professional cooking\, sustainable farming\, and life skills\, developing their appreciation of high-quality food prepared by chefs and food service professionals. \nWe hold our apprentices to the highest standard of excellence and for many\, this is the first time they have had that experience. These young adults rise to meet these expectations. Under the leadership of Executive Director Evelyn Cheatham\, WOW emphasizes responsibility\, accountability and teamwork\, skills that produce success in any field apprentices may choose going forward. \nTuition for this award-winning culinary apprentice program is $1200. Some partial and full scholarships are available. \nIf you would like to sponsor an apprentice\, your $1200 donation can truly change the life of the recipient! URL:https://www.oldsf.bmkt.net/event/worth-our-weight-apprentices-demonstrating-their-knife-skills/ LOCATION:Portico\, 6790 McKinley St #180\, Sebastopol\, CA\, 95472\, United States CATEGORIES:Film Event ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://www.oldsf.bmkt.net/wp/wp-content/uploads/2018/03/worthourweight-students-02.jpg ORGANIZER;CN="Slow Food Russian River":MAILTO:russianriverca@slowfoodusa.org END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20180324T121500 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20180324T140000 DTSTAMP:20260513T044920 CREATED:20180226T172244Z LAST-MODIFIED:20180227T221626Z UID:7234-1521893700-1521900000@www.oldsf.bmkt.net SUMMARY:FILM: Knife Skills\, Sponsored by Slow Food Russian River DESCRIPTION:The Film: Knife Skills\nSlow Food Russian River is proud to sponsor the Academy Award® nominated documentary Knife Skills\, directed by Thomas Lennon\, as part of the 11th Annual Sebastopol Documentary Film Festival. Two screenings: Saturday\, March 24\, 2018\, 12:15pm (in the shorts program 3) Rialto Cinemas #7 & Sunday\, March 25\, 2018\, 1:15pm\, Rialto Cinemas #8 (as part of the Oscar Nominees program). \nTickets for Knife Skills\nIndividual Tickets for the film are $15 (General Admission) and $12 for members of the Sebastopol Documentary Film Festival. Membership has perks! Highly Recommended. Use the Membership Code you receive to reap the benefits. Festival Passes are $250 (General Admission) and $225 (Members). \nIMPORTANT: Please show up at least 15 minutes before the screening! The thing is that tickets guarantee a seat only until 15 minutes prior to the start of all films and presentations. Fifteen minutes prior to showtime\, empty seats will be resold\, believe it or not. Worse\, late-coming ticket holders will have to queue in the Wait Line to be admitted with their ticket. \nThere are three ways to purchase tickets or passes: \n• Online for this film here (Saturday\, March 24th\, 12:15 PM Shorts Program 3 – Wildland\, Knife Skills at Rialto 7) or here (Sunday\, March 25th\, 1:15 PM Oscar Nominees – Knife Skills & Negative Space Rialto #8) and in general at https://sebastopolfilmfestival.org/portfolio-item/tickets-and-passes/ \nYou can purchase tickets for individual films via the schedule to discover films and events throughout the festival weekend. \n• In Person at Sebastopol Center for the Arts (SCA)\n282 South High Street\nSebastopol\, CA 95472 \n• By Telephone at 707-829-4797 x303 ($5 surcharge per phone order)\nHours: Tues-Fri\, 10am – 4pm\, Sat-Sun 1-4pm \nSynopsis of Knife Skills\nWhat does it take to build a world-class French restaurant? What if the staff is almost entirely men and women just out of prison? What if most have never cooked or served before\, and have barely two months to learn their trade? \nKnife Skills follows the hectic launch of Edwins restaurant in Cleveland. In this improbable setting\, with its mouth-watering dishes and its arcane French vocabulary\, we discover the challenges of men and women finding their way after their release. We come to know three trainees intimately\, as well as the restaurant’s founder\, who is also dogged by his past. These men and women all have something to prove\, and all struggle to launch new lives\, an endeavor as pressured and perilous as the ambitious restaurant launch of which they are a part. More… \n  \nFrom the Press\nAn Oscar-Nominated Documentary About Fine Dining and Life After Prison\, by Sarah Larson. The New Yorker\, Culture Desk\, February 6\, 2018 \nAs Thomas Lennon’s forty-minute Oscar-nominated documentary short “Knife Skills” begins\, it’s opening night at Edwins\, a new French restaurant in Cleveland. Just before showtime\, a sharp-dressed proprietor in a pink necktie talks to his staff in the dining room. “This is going to be the most anticipated restaurant opening that Cleveland’s seen\,” he tells them. “And it happens today in about ten minutes.” He’s earnest\, happy\, and intense\, with a kind look in his eyes; they’re nervous but excited\, in chef’s whites and the vest-based formal wear of the dining room. The cause for the anticipation is hinted at by two title cards: one that tells us that Edwins aims to be the best classic French restaurant in the United States\, and another that tells us that Edwins is staffed by people recently released from prison. In the kitchen that night\, as pressure builds\, a French chef with a heavy accent yells\, “I need zhose rabbits\, now!” The film cuts to six weeks earlier\, as Edwins\, which is both a culinary school and a restaurant\, welcomes its first class. More… \n  \nAbout the Director\nThomas Furneaux Lennon (born 1951) is a documentary filmmaker. His films\, broadcast on PBS and HBO\, have won an Academy Award and have been nominated for the Oscar four times. He has also received two George Foster Peabody Awards\, two national Emmys and two DuPont-Columbia Journalism awards. With filmmaker Ruby Yang\, he mounted a vast multi-year AIDS prevention campaign seen over a billion times on Chinese television. Together they made a trilogy of short documentary films about modern China\, including The Blood of Yingzhou District\, which won an Oscar in 2007\, and The Warriors of Qiugang\, nominated in 2011\, which profiles an Anhui Province farmer’s multi-year campaign to halt the poisoning of his village water by a nearby factory. Three weeks after the Oscar nomination\, the local government of Bengbu\, in Anhui\, announced a 200 million yuan (US$30 million) clean-up of the toxic site shown in the film. He produced two historical series on PBS: The Irish in America: Long Journey Home (1998) and Becoming American: The Chinese Experience with Bill Moyers (2003). The Battle Over Citizen Kane (1996) co-written with the late Richard Ben Cramer\, marked his first Oscar nomination and was adapted into a fiction film\, RKO 281\, starring John Malkovich and Melanie Griffith. More… URL:https://www.oldsf.bmkt.net/event/knife-skills/ CATEGORIES:Film Event ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://www.oldsf.bmkt.net/wp/wp-content/uploads/2018/02/knife-skills-still.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20180309T170000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20180309T190000 DTSTAMP:20260513T044920 CREATED:20180307T011513Z LAST-MODIFIED:20180307T085502Z UID:7269-1520614800-1520622000@www.oldsf.bmkt.net SUMMARY:The Art and Taste of Crafted Meat DESCRIPTION:Slow Food Russian River and\nZazu Kitchen + Farm\nare pleased to host an event\nshowcasing the art and taste of\nCrafted Meat\nFriday\, March 9\, 2018\n5:00 – 7:00PM\nZazu Kitchen + Farm at The Barlow\n6770 McKinley St #150\, Sebastopol\, CA 95472\n\nJoin us for Happy Hour\nand conversation with\nHendrik Haase\nAuthor & Culinary Curator\nand\nJohn Stewart & Duskie Estes \nThe King & Queen of Porc \n$30 Tickets include Beer & Bite:\nRussian River Blind Pig\nSalsiccia & Gnocchi Fritto with Fennel \nCrafted Meat Tickets \n\n  URL:https://www.oldsf.bmkt.net/event/art-taste-crafted-meat/ LOCATION:Zazu\, CA\, 95472\, United States CATEGORIES:Meat Event ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://www.oldsf.bmkt.net/wp/wp-content/uploads/2018/03/craftedmeat.png ORGANIZER;CN="Slow Food Russian River":MAILTO:russianriverca@slowfoodusa.org END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20180301T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20180301T210000 DTSTAMP:20260513T044920 CREATED:20180205T175023Z LAST-MODIFIED:20180205T190159Z UID:7150-1519930800-1519938000@www.oldsf.bmkt.net SUMMARY:Book Group: A Taste of Paris\, by David Downie DESCRIPTION:  \n  \nThe Slow Food Russian River Book Group will be discussing A Taste of Paris: A History of the Parisian Love Affair with Food\, by David Downie (St. Martin’s Press\, September 26\, 2017) \nThe Book Group meets the first Thursday of the month\, 7 – 9pm in Sebastopol. It’s a convivial dinner. Please bring a dish for four and a beverage. \nPlease RSVP on Meetup and spread the word about this Book Group. Location revealed on Meetup. \nMembership\nTo be a member of the Book Group you don’t need to be a member of Slow Food\, although – of course – we hope that with time you will become one. \nAbout David Downie\nDavid D. Downie (born 1958 in San Francisco) is a multilingual Paris-based American nonfiction author\, crime novelist and journalist who writes most often about culture\, food and travel. \nA graduate of the University of California\, Berkeley\, Downie took a master’s degree in Italian from Brown University in Providence\, Rhode Island\, where he was a Kenyon Scholar and University Fellow. After working in the early 1980s as a translator\, interpreter and press officer in Milan\, he moved to Paris. His writing reflects an abiding interest in French and Italian culture\, politics\, food and language. \nHis articles have appeared in about 50 publications\, print and online\, including The Los Angeles Times\, San Francisco Chronicle\, Bon Appétit\, Gourmet\, Gastronomica\, The Art of Eating\, Australian Financial Review\, Salon.com\, Epicurious.com and Concierge.com. He has acted as Paris correspondent\, contributing editor or European editor for a number of publications\, including Appellation\, Art & Antiques and Departures. His writing has also appeared in anthologies\, among them The Collected Traveler volumes on Paris\, Southwest France and Central Italy. More… \nPublishers Blurb of A Taste of Paris\, by David Downie\nA Taste of Paris is a delectable culinary history of the gastronomic capital of the world\, written by David Downie\, the critically acclaimed author of Paris\, Paris: Journey Into the City of Light and A Passion for Paris: Romanticism and Romance in the City of Light. \nIn his trademark witty and informative style\, David Downie embarks on a quest to discover “What is it about the history of Paris that has made it a food lover’s paradise?” Long before Marie Antoinette said\, “Let them eat cake!” (actually\, it was brioche)\, the Romans of Paris devoured foie gras\, and live oysters rushed in from the Atlantic; one Medieval cookbook describes a thirty-two part meal featuring hare stew\, eel soup\, and honeyed wine; during the last great banquet at Versailles a year before the Revolution the gourmand Louis XVI savored thirty-two main dishes and sixteen desserts; yet\, in 1812\, Grimod de la Reynière\, the father of French gastronomy\, regaled guests with fifty-two courses\, fifteen wines\, three types of coffee\, and seventeen liqueurs. \nFollowing the contours of history and the geography of the city\, Downie sweeps readers on an insider’s gourmet walking tour of Paris and its environs in A Taste of Paris\, revealing the locations of Roman butcher shops\, classic Belle Epoque bistros serving diners today and Marie Antoinette’s exquisite vegetable garden that still supplies produce\, no longer to the unfortunate queen\, but to the legendary Alain Ducasse and his stylish restaurant inside the palace of Versailles. Along the way\, readers learn why the rich culinary heritage of France still makes Paris the ultimate arbiter in the world of food. \nMargaret Quamme reviews in Booklist \nStarting with the years during which the Romans dominated the little town that would grow into Paris\, he moves through the ages\, lingering affectionately in the eighteenth century and tossing in literary references as well as more strictly food-related ones. While Downie may not be temperamentally suited for writing a strictly chronological history\, most readers will enjoy his free associative jumps into seemingly unrelated areas of French history and life\, and no one will mistake his love for his adopted country. Booklist\, August 1\, 2017\, Vol.113(22)\, p.16(1) \nTHE SALT – NPR \n‘A Taste Of Paris’: How The City Of Light Became The City Of Food\nNovember 8\, 2017 • In his new book\, food historian David Downie takes readers on a gourmet jaunt through time to reveal how the French capital became a gastronomic powerhouse. (Hint: You can thank Rome.) Listen… \nWandering Educators \n“I’ve long loved [David Downie’s] books on Paris\, for their illumination of a city so many people love. He is a consummate researcher\, his books brimming with details I’d never known before\, but he’s also a storyteller – I can’t put his books down. So let me share his new book (as always\, I stayed up WAY too late reading it)\, A Taste of Paris: A History of the Parisian Love Affair with Food.  More… \nMiranda Seymour\, France’s Love Affair With Food\, New York Times\, Feb 2\, 2018 \nIn a book that skillfully combines culinary history with reports from some of the city’s most tasteful arrondissements\,[David Downie] adopts the conceit of a historian’s walking tour\, conflating past with present in gorgeous style. More… \nKIRKUS \nThe author … offers capsule reviews—not always favorable—of some of Paris’ 10\,000 restaurants. He is not a fan of pretension\, noise\, corporate ownership\, stratospheric prices\, or what he calls “karaoke cuisine\,” characterized by “industrial sauce\,” microwaved entrees\, “multiple courses for under $20\,” and “pink and familiar decor.” His disdain is especially harsh regarding “super-bobo” eateries with “could-be-anywhere cooking.” More… URL:https://www.oldsf.bmkt.net/event/book-group-a-taste-of-paris-by-david-downie/ LOCATION:Private Home in Sebastopol\, Address with RSVP\, Sebastopol\, CA\, 95472\, United States ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://www.oldsf.bmkt.net/wp/wp-content/uploads/2018/02/David-Downie-A-Taste-of-Paris.jpg ORGANIZER;CN="Slow Food Russian River Book Group":MAILTO:sfrrbookgroup@gmail.com END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20180201T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20180201T210000 DTSTAMP:20260513T044920 CREATED:20171001T032437Z LAST-MODIFIED:20180122T172841Z UID:6728-1517511600-1517518800@www.oldsf.bmkt.net SUMMARY:Book Group: What She Ate\, by Laura Shapiro DESCRIPTION:The Slow Food Russian River Book Group will be discussing What She Ate: Six Remarkable Women and the Food That Tells Their Stories (Viking\, 2017)\, by Laura Shapiro. \nThe Book Group meets the first Thursday of the month\, 7 – 9pm in Sebastopol. It’s a convivial dinner. Please bring a dish for four and a beverage. \nMembership\nTo be a member of the Book Group you don’t need to be a member of Slow Food\, although – of course – we hope that with time you will become one. \n  \nAbout Laura Shapiro\nLaura Shapiro was an award-winning writer at Newsweek for more than fifteen years. Her articles have appeared in many publications\, including The New York Times\, Rolling Stone\, Granta\, and Gourmet. She is at work on a book about how women’s attitudes toward food in the late ’40s to early ’60s presaged the cultural and culinary revolutions to come. More… \nPublishers Blurb of What She Ate\, by Laura Shapiro\nSix  “mouthwatering” (Eater.com) short takes on six famous women through the lens of food and cooking\, probing how their attitudes toward food can offer surprising new insights into their lives\, and our own. Everyone eats\, and food touches on every aspect of our lives—social and cultural\, personal and political. Yet most biographers pay little attention to people’s attitudes toward food\, as if the great and notable never bothered to think about what was on the plate in front of them. Once we ask how somebody relates to food\, we find a whole world of different and provocative ways to understand her. Food stories can be as intimate and revealing as stories of love\, work\, or coming-of-age. Each of the six women in this entertaining group portrait was famous in her time\, and most are still famous in ours; but until now\, nobody has told their lives from the point of view of the kitchen and the table.It’s a lively and unpredictable array of women; what they have in common with one another (and us) is a powerful relationship with food. They include Dorothy Wordsworth\, whose food story transforms our picture of the life she shared with her famous poet brother; Rosa Lewis\, the Edwardian-era Cockney caterer who cooked her way up the social ladder; Eleanor Roosevelt\,  First Lady and rigorous protector of the worst cook in White House history; Eva Braun\, Hitler’s mistress\, who challenges our warm associations of food\, family\, and table; Barbara Pym\, whose witty books upend a host of stereotypes about postwar British cuisine; and Helen Gurley Brown\, the editor of Cosmopolitan\, whose commitment to “having it all” meant having almost nothing on the plate except a supersized portion of diet gelatin. URL:https://www.oldsf.bmkt.net/event/book-group-what-she-ate-by-laura-shapiro/ LOCATION:Private Home in Sebastopol\, Address with RSVP\, Sebastopol\, CA\, 95472\, United States CATEGORIES:Book Group ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://www.oldsf.bmkt.net/wp/wp-content/uploads/2017/09/What-She-Ate-by-Laura-Shapiro.jpg ORGANIZER;CN="Slow Food Russian River Book Group":MAILTO:sfrrbookgroup@gmail.com END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR