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SUMMARY:Piccolo: Insatiable: Tales From a Life of Delicious Excess\, by Gael Greene\, Four
DESCRIPTION:For this Piccolo we’re reading Insatiable: Tales From a Life of Delicious Excess\, by Gael Greene\, Acknowledgements\, Chapters 33-41\, (pp. 202-281). \nChapter 33 starts: “Once upon a time in the dim dawn of oral history\, there was no Williams-Sonoma international bazaar of kitchen and tableware in every mall\, no De Gustibus famous chefs cooking classes at Macy’s\, no Food Network\, no chefs hotter than rock stars. James Beard taught a few classes on television in the fifties. You could buy springform pans and madeleine molds at a few high-end kitchen shops or from snarly Fred Bridge’s professional cookware hideaway. There were cooking classes of course\, Dione Lucas\, Grace Chu\, and Helen Worth\, whose method was to teach one student at a … ” \nGael Green’s Website \nOur Piccolo is a quick\, short\, Book Group meeting at a local coffee house on Mondays\, noon – 1pm. We’re meeting at Acre Coffee in Montgomery Village\, Santa Rosa. \nThe selections are from light\, chatty\, gossipy storytelling. \nNo need to RSVP. Just drop by for a piccolo. \n*** \nNY Times about Insatiable: Tales From a Life of Delicious Excess\nTHIRTY years ago\, in her steamy novel “Blue Skies\, No Candy\,” Gael Greene used the language of food to show men “what sex could feel like to a woman.” In “Insatiable: Tales From a Life of Delicious Excess\,” her frank and funny new memoir of her life and loves and the decades she spent as New York magazine’s restaurant critic\, she explains her approach to that early fiction: “I used all the senses\, all the sensory words I used to describe food — the taste and smell of it\, the sound and heat.” She was stunned when male critics scolded her: “I truly thought there was an audience out there ready to discover a woman’s sheer carnal joy.” Nonetheless\, notoriety was her friend. When the Metropolitan Transportation Authority banned the subway ads for the novel’s paperback edition — which showed a woman undoing a man’s zipper — half a million copies sold in one week. More… \nGoodreads: 3.01 · Rating Details · 532 Ratings · 127 Reviews \nRating Details:\n5: 9% (48)\n4: 24% (130)\n3: 34% (181)\n2: 23% (126)\n1: 8% (47)\n67% of people liked it\nAll editions: 3.01 average rating\, 532 ratings\, 127 reviews\, added by 960 people\, 320 to-reads\nThis edition: 3.0 average rating\, 475 ratings\, 121 reviews\, added by 852 people \n\nBibliographic Description of Insatiable: Tales From a Life of Delicious Excess\nAuthor Greene\, Gael.\nTitle Insatiable : tales from a life of delicious excess / Gael Greene.\nImprint New York : Warner Books\, 2006.\nEdition 1st ed. \nDescript xiii\, 368 p.\, [8] p. of plates : ill. ; 24 cm\nNote Includes index.\nSummary In 1968\, Gael Greene became restaurant critic of the fledgling New York magazine. She’d never written a restaurant review in her life\, but she was a passionate foodie\, and dining in great restaurants on someone else’s dime was too enticing to resist. Thus began a remarkable career charting the restaurants that changed the way Americans ate\, the chefs who turned cooking into an art form\, and the food and wines that launched a culinary revolution.–From publisher description.\nSubject Greene\, Gael.\nFood writers — United States — Biography.\nGastronomy.\nISBN 0446576999\nStandard # 9780446576994\nLC CARD # 2005034429\nStandard # BRO-copy20060531-153 BRO-cust20060609-153 BRO-cust20060614-153
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LOCATION:Acre Coffee @ Montgomery Village Shopping Center\, Montgomery Village Shopping Center\, 2365 Midway Drive\, Santa Rosa\, CA\, 95405\, United States
CATEGORIES:Book Group
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SUMMARY:Piccolo: Insatiable: Tales From a Life of Delicious Excess\, by Gael Greene\, Three
DESCRIPTION:For this Piccolo we’re reading Insatiable: Tales From a Life of Delicious Excess\, by Gael Greene\, Acknowledgements\, Chapters 24-32\, (pp. 138-201). \nChapter 24 starts: “Press junkets and free meals were strictly forbidden to New York magazine citics and contributing editors. But there was not way I could refuse … ” \nGael Green’s Website \nOur Piccolo is a quick\, short\, Book Group meeting at a local coffee house on Mondays\, noon – 1pm. We’re meeting at Acre Coffee in Montgomery Village\, Santa Rosa. \nThe selections are from light\, chatty\, gossipy storytelling. \nNo need to RSVP. Just drop by for a piccolo. \n*** \nNY Times about Insatiable: Tales From a Life of Delicious Excess\nTHIRTY years ago\, in her steamy novel “Blue Skies\, No Candy\,” Gael Greene used the language of food to show men “what sex could feel like to a woman.” In “Insatiable: Tales From a Life of Delicious Excess\,” her frank and funny new memoir of her life and loves and the decades she spent as New York magazine’s restaurant critic\, she explains her approach to that early fiction: “I used all the senses\, all the sensory words I used to describe food — the taste and smell of it\, the sound and heat.” She was stunned when male critics scolded her: “I truly thought there was an audience out there ready to discover a woman’s sheer carnal joy.” Nonetheless\, notoriety was her friend. When the Metropolitan Transportation Authority banned the subway ads for the novel’s paperback edition — which showed a woman undoing a man’s zipper — half a million copies sold in one week. More… \nGoodreads: 3.01 · Rating Details · 532 Ratings · 127 Reviews \nRating Details:\n5: 9% (48)\n4: 24% (130)\n3: 34% (181)\n2: 23% (126)\n1: 8% (47)\n67% of people liked it\nAll editions: 3.01 average rating\, 532 ratings\, 127 reviews\, added by 960 people\, 320 to-reads\nThis edition: 3.0 average rating\, 475 ratings\, 121 reviews\, added by 852 people \n\nBibliographic Description of Insatiable: Tales From a Life of Delicious Excess\nAuthor Greene\, Gael.\nTitle Insatiable : tales from a life of delicious excess / Gael Greene.\nImprint New York : Warner Books\, 2006.\nEdition 1st ed. \nDescript xiii\, 368 p.\, [8] p. of plates : ill. ; 24 cm\nNote Includes index.\nSummary In 1968\, Gael Greene became restaurant critic of the fledgling New York magazine. She’d never written a restaurant review in her life\, but she was a passionate foodie\, and dining in great restaurants on someone else’s dime was too enticing to resist. Thus began a remarkable career charting the restaurants that changed the way Americans ate\, the chefs who turned cooking into an art form\, and the food and wines that launched a culinary revolution.–From publisher description.\nSubject Greene\, Gael.\nFood writers — United States — Biography.\nGastronomy.\nISBN 0446576999\nStandard # 9780446576994\nLC CARD # 2005034429\nStandard # BRO-copy20060531-153 BRO-cust20060609-153 BRO-cust20060614-153
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LOCATION:Acre Coffee @ Montgomery Village Shopping Center\, Montgomery Village Shopping Center\, 2365 Midway Drive\, Santa Rosa\, CA\, 95405\, United States
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SUMMARY:Book Group: Biting the Hands that Feed Us Thru Failing Food Regulations\, by Baylen J. Linnekin
DESCRIPTION:The Slow Food Russian River Book Group will be discussing a book about failing food regulations\, Biting the Hands that Feed Us: How Fewer\, Smarter Laws Would Make Our Food System More Sustainable (Island Press\, 2016) by Baylen J. Linnekin\, with a foreword by Emily Broad Leib. \nTo RSVP email the Book Group at sfrrbookgroup@gmail.com.  The Book Group is open to anyone who can read\, loves cooking a dish\, and likes a good conversation. \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. \nSummary of Biting the Hands that Feed Us: How Fewer\, Smarter Laws Would Make Our Food System More Sustainable\nFood waste\, hunger\, inhumane livestock conditions\, disappearing fish stocks—these are exactly the kind of issues we expect food regulations to combat. Yet\, today in the United States\, laws exist at all levels of government that actually make these problems worse. Baylen Linnekin argues that\, too often\, government rules handcuff America’s most sustainable farmers\, producers\, sellers\, and consumers\, while rewarding those whose practices are anything but sustainable. \nBiting the Hands that Feed Us introduces readers to the perverse consequences of many food rules. Some of these rules constrain the sale of “ugly” fruits and vegetables\, relegating bushels of tasty but misshapen carrots and strawberries to food waste. Other rules have threatened to treat manure—the lifeblood of organic fertilization—as a toxin. Still other rules prevent sharing food with the homeless and others in need. There are even rules that prohibit people from growing fruits and vegetables in their own yards. \nRead more… \nReviews\nFrom the Hit and Run blog on Reason.com \nBaylen Linnekin writes about “food freedom” at Reason every Saturday (check out his archive here). His new book\, Biting the Hands that Feed Us: How Fewer\, Smarter Laws\, is drawing strong notices for its mix of libertarian brio and familiarity with the artisanal food scene. Biting the Hands that Feed Us exposes many absurdities in current food law\, while celebrating ethical entrepreneurs\,” says Whole Foods’ John Mackey. “This witty\, incisive book will outrage and ultimately inspire you.” And here’s Booklist\, “His book cleverly and precisely decries how the federal government’s rules and restrictions regarding food are a serious disservice to producers and consumers alike.” \nRead more… \n\n“Makes a strong case that the biggest issues facing our nation’s food supply are ones deserving bipartisan solutions—and that those solutions might actually entail fewer\, better food laws instead of a spate of new ones.” (Huffington Post)\n“Applies a critical eye to the unintended consequences of many rules and regulations…Linnekin doesn’t just rely on stats\, he tells the personal stories of small-business owners who’ve been harmed by various rules.” (Politico)\n“Linnekin mixes his mastery of history and law with a great sense of humor and frustration at a regulatory and cultural system that is completely at odds with itself. This is the book to give to your farmer-market friends who love Whole Foods\, mandatory GMO labeling\, and dictating what is good not just for themselves but everyone in society.” (Reason)\n“Promoting a libertarian take on the regulation of organic food\, this engaging book presents a fresh perspective on a popular topic…With example after example\, Biting effectively makes the case that organic farmers should be allowed to do what they do best\, with less regulation and oversight…Regardless of their political affiliation\, many audiences will find this book fascinating.” (Foreword)\n“A seasoned food lawyer and law professor\, [Linnekin] keeps an eagle eye out for the head-smacking inanities that creep into the regulatory language…Linnekin’s book is must reading for anyone affected by food regulations.” (Acres U.S.A.)\n“Provocative…Linnekin leaves the reader with guiding principles of how we can transform food policy in a direction that promotes—not inhibits sustainability.” (Civil Eats)\n\n“Equal parts tragedy and comedy\, Biting the Hands that Feed Us exposes many absurdities in current food law\, while celebrating ethical entrepreneurs. This witty\, incisive book will outrage and ultimately inspire you.” (John Mackey co-founder and co-CEO\, Whole Foods Market)\n“A well-researched\, fascinating investigation into how misguided government rules hinder our dreams for a future of sustainable\, local food in America. From the unintended consequences of well-meaning rules to sheer manipulation of the system by Big Food\, Linnekin shows again and again how small farms and family businesses lose out. Biting the Hand That Feeds Us reveals how the simple act of bringing food to market\, has\, under a thicket of regulations\, become a Herculean task. For anyone interested in the farm-to-table movement\, this book is a must-read.”(Nina Teicholz author of the New York Times’ bestseller The Big Fat Surprise)\n“As Biting the Hands that Feed Us explains in an accessible and entertaining way\, too often our legal system not only fails to protect us\, but even undermines our efforts. While I don’t always agree with Baylen Linnekin\, I appreciate his willingness to challenge assumptions about food regulations. His book is an important contribution to the food policy discourse.” (Michele Simon author of Appetite for Profit and executive director\, Plant Based Foods Association)\n“If you ever wondered why local\, sustainable\, innovative food is either expensive or difficult to find\, Linnekin lays out the reason brilliantly: a plethora of antagonistic government rules. A must-read for all who desire the ultimate personal liberty: the right to choose our food.” (Joel Salatin third generation farmer\, Polyface Inc. and author of Folks\, This Ain’t Normal)\n\nBibliographic Information\n\nAuthor Linnekin\, Baylen. author.\nTitle Biting the hands that feed us : how fewer\, smarter laws would make our food system more sustainable / Baylen J. Linnekin.\nImprint Washington D.C. : Island Press\, [2016]\nDescript xxi\, 257 pages ; 24 cm\nContents Unsafe at any feed — “Big food” bigger thanks to “big government” — Wasting your money wasting food — I say “tomato\,” you say “no” — There are good food rules.\nNote Includes bibliographical references (pages 201-247) and index \nSummary “Food waste\, hunger\, inhumane livestock conditions\, disappearing fish stocks–these are exactly the kind of issues we expect food regulations to combat. Yet\, today in the United States\, laws exist at all levels of government that actually make these problems worse. Baylen Linnekin argues that\, too often\, government rules handcuff America’s most sustainable farmers\, producers\, sellers\, and consumers\, while rewarding those whose practices are anything but sustainable.Bitting the Hands that Feed Us introduces readers to the perverse consequences of many food rules. Some of these rules constrain the sale of ‘ugly’ fruits and vegetables\, relegating bushels of tasty but misshapen carrots and strawberries to food waste. Other rules have threatened to treat manure–the lifeblood of organic fertilization–as a toxin. Still other rules prevent sharing food with the homeless and others in need. There are even rules that prohibit people from growing fruits and vegetables in their own yards. Linnekin also explores what makes for a good food law–often\, he explains\, these emphasize good outcomes rather than rigid processes. But he urges readers to be wary of efforts to regulate our way to a greener food system\, calling instead for empowerment of those working to feed us (and themselves) sustainably”–Amazon.com\nSubject Food supply — Government policy — United States.\nFood supply — Environmental aspects — United States.\nFood supply — Law and legislation — United States.\nFood industry and trade — Government policy — United States.\nFood industry and trade — Environmental aspects — United States.\nFood law and legislation — United States.\nSustainable agriculture — Government policy — United States.\nLivestock — Moral and ethical aspects — United States.\nNutrition policy — United States.\nFood consumption — United States.\nISBN 9781610916752 (hardcover)\n1610916751 (hardcover)\nLC CARD # 2016938036\nStandard # Island Pr\, C/O Chicago Distribution Center 11030 S Langley Ave\, Chicago\, IL\, USA\, 60628 SAN 202-5280
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LOCATION:Private Home in Sebastopol\, Address with RSVP\, Sebastopol\, CA\, 95472\, United States
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SUMMARY:Piccolo: Insatiable: Tales From a Life of Delicious Excess\, by Gael Greene\, Two
DESCRIPTION:For this Piccolo we’re reading Insatiable: Tales From a Life of Delicious Excess\, by Gael Greene\, Acknowledgements\, Chapters 11-23\, (pp. 56-137). \nChapter 11 starts: “I was a decade ahead of America’s sensuality explosion in the fifties and leaped into the foodie vanguard in the sixties. I didn’t know much\, but I already knew that Vienne was not Vienna\, and there were six flavors of mustard from Fauchon aging in my fridge\, where everyone else stocked feeble ballpark yellow. I would not have predicted that in a few years great armies of New Yorkers would be trotting off to France carrying New York\, determined to order the dishes I loved in Lyon and Mougins\, or that the young and affluent New Yorker would soon be as obsessed with cooking and great dining as I. ” \nGael Green’s Website \nOur Piccolo is a quick\, short\, Book Group meeting at a local coffee house on Mondays\, noon – 1pm. We’re meeting at Acre Coffee in Montgomery Village\, Santa Rosa. \nThe selections are from light\, chatty\, gossipy storytelling. \nNo need to RSVP. Just drop by for a piccolo. \n*** \nNY Times about Insatiable: Tales From a Life of Delicious Excess\nTHIRTY years ago\, in her steamy novel “Blue Skies\, No Candy\,” Gael Greene used the language of food to show men “what sex could feel like to a woman.” In “Insatiable: Tales From a Life of Delicious Excess\,” her frank and funny new memoir of her life and loves and the decades she spent as New York magazine’s restaurant critic\, she explains her approach to that early fiction: “I used all the senses\, all the sensory words I used to describe food — the taste and smell of it\, the sound and heat.” She was stunned when male critics scolded her: “I truly thought there was an audience out there ready to discover a woman’s sheer carnal joy.” Nonetheless\, notoriety was her friend. When the Metropolitan Transportation Authority banned the subway ads for the novel’s paperback edition — which showed a woman undoing a man’s zipper — half a million copies sold in one week. More… \nGoodreads: 3.01 · Rating Details · 532 Ratings · 127 Reviews \nRating Details:\n5: 9% (48)\n4: 24% (130)\n3: 34% (181)\n2: 23% (126)\n1: 8% (47)\n67% of people liked it\nAll editions: 3.01 average rating\, 532 ratings\, 127 reviews\, added by 960 people\, 320 to-reads\nThis edition: 3.0 average rating\, 475 ratings\, 121 reviews\, added by 852 people \n\nBibliographic Description of Insatiable: Tales From a Life of Delicious Excess\nAuthor Greene\, Gael.\nTitle Insatiable : tales from a life of delicious excess / Gael Greene.\nImprint New York : Warner Books\, 2006.\nEdition 1st ed. \nDescript xiii\, 368 p.\, [8] p. of plates : ill. ; 24 cm\nNote Includes index.\nSummary In 1968\, Gael Greene became restaurant critic of the fledgling New York magazine. She’d never written a restaurant review in her life\, but she was a passionate foodie\, and dining in great restaurants on someone else’s dime was too enticing to resist. Thus began a remarkable career charting the restaurants that changed the way Americans ate\, the chefs who turned cooking into an art form\, and the food and wines that launched a culinary revolution.–From publisher description.\nSubject Greene\, Gael.\nFood writers — United States — Biography.\nGastronomy.\nISBN 0446576999\nStandard # 9780446576994\nLC CARD # 2005034429\nStandard # BRO-copy20060531-153 BRO-cust20060609-153 BRO-cust20060614-153
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LOCATION:Acre Coffee @ Montgomery Village Shopping Center\, Montgomery Village Shopping Center\, 2365 Midway Drive\, Santa Rosa\, CA\, 95405\, United States
CATEGORIES:Book Group
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20170428T170000
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SUMMARY:Open House — Slow Salon\, Friday\, April 28\, 2017
DESCRIPTION:Our April 2017 Open House\, the Slow Food Russian River Slow Salon\, on April 28\, 2017\, 5-7:30pm in Sebastopol\, is a convivial get-together for Slow Food members and supporters. Please bring a beverage\, and an appetizer or dessert. Tickets are $10 to help cover the expenses of running the chapter. Children are free. Address with ticket sale. \nMeet at the Slow Salon other supporters of the Slow Food mission\, and celebrate together the onset of the dry season and the bounty of the county for good\, clean and fair food\, for all. \nHear from Slow Food Leaders about upcoming events and ongoing projects and see how you can plug in. Learn about interesting activities from partner organizations. Ask your questions and provide your ideas for projects and events the chapter may take on. \n \nTo become a Slow Food member click here. To check your membership status click on the link “update subscription preferences” at the bottom of the latest email message you received from Slow Food Russian River. \nTheme of the April 28 Slow Salon: Food waste\, and how to reduce it\, and reduce its impact.\nRoy Smith of Green Goose Farm will talk about pigs and how they can build soil and improve the Nutrient Cycle\n“A nutrient cycle (or ecological recycling) is the movement and exchange of organic and inorganic matter back into the production of living matter\,” says Wikipedia. We agree. \nTerry Harrison of CAFF and of the Sonoma County Compost Coalition will talk about the political state of composting in Sonoma County.\nSonoma County produces over 100\,000 tons of organic materials annually. Due to the closure of Sonoma Compost\, this valuable resource is now being hauled out of county. Compost is vital for our soil health\, carbon farming\, food production\, and water conservation. We need to bring organics recycling infrastructure back to Sonoma County. That’s where the Sonoma County Compost Coalition comes in with action. \nA few Slow Food Supporters will prepare dished using a recipe from these books about “Using The Whole Vegetable/Animal.”\n• Waste-Free Kitchen Handbook: A Guide to Eating Well and Saving Money By Wasting Less Food (2015) by Dana Gunders. Francis Hourigan of Warm Spring Wind Farm will prepare a dish from this book for the Slow Salon. \nDana is a Senior Scientist at the Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC) and one of the first to bring to light just how much food is wasted across the country through her 2012 report Wasted: How America is Losing Up to 40% of Its Food from Farm to Fork to Landfill.  Dana’s work to reduce food waste has been covered on CNN\, NBC\, The New York Times\, Wall Street Journal\, Fox Business\, NPR\, Last Week Tonight with John Oliver\, Dr. Oz\, Munchies and many other outlets.  She now works with policymakers\, food companies\, foundations\, and local governments and leads NRDC’s food waste team.  Along the way\, she realized a key reason people waste food is that they don’t have the right knowledge at their fingertips. Thus was born the Waste-Free Kitchen Handbook. \nReviews of Waste-Free Kitchen Handbook on Goodreads \n• Root-to-Stalk Cooking: The Art of Using the Whole Vegetable Paperback (2013) by Tara Duggan. Carolyn Harrison of Community Alliance with Family Farmers North Bay will prepare a dish from this book for the Slow Salon. \nTara Duggan is a James Beard award–winning journalist and cookbook author. A longtime staff writer and The Working Cook columnist at the San Francisco Chronicle\, Tara has published work in the New York Times\, Food&Wine\, Sunset\, Chicago Tribune\, Denver Post\, Toronto Star\,  and California. Her books include Root to Stalk Cooking: The Art of Using the Whole Vegetable (Ten Speed\, 2013)\, The Blue Bottle Craft of Coffee (Ten Speed\, 2012)\, The Working Cook and Waffles. Tara did a cooking segment on the nationally broadcast CBS Early Show and teaches cooking classes at San Francisco’s Ferry Plaza Farmers Market. \nReviews of Root-to-Stalk Cooking on Goodreads \n• Scraps\, Wilt & Weeds: Turning Wasted Food into Plenty (2017) by Mads Refslund & Tama Matsuoka Wong. Poet and writer Jonah Raskin will cook a dish from this book for the Slow Salon. \nSCRAPS\, WILT & WEEDS features 100 recipes by Mads Refslund\, one of the initial partners at Noma\, the world-renowned Danish restaurant\, using local ingredients in a sustainable\, no-waste fashion. Using scraps from vegetables\, fruits and animal proteins–food that would normally go to waste–Refslund creates beautiful and accessible recipes for the home cook without sacrificing anything to flavor. He uses 100% of the ingredient or as close as possible\, including potato peels\, cauliflower stems\, or fish skins\, but also ingredients that are passed over as too young\, like green strawberries\, or too old\, like stale bread\, wrinkly potatoes or bolted herbs.\n\nReview of Scraps\, Wilt & Weeds by food blogger Mary Catherine\n\n • The Whole Beast: Nose to Tail Eating (2004) by Fergus Henderson. Rebecca Black of Green Goose Farm will prepare a dish from this book for the Slow Salon.\n\nThe Whole Beast: Nose to Tail Eating is a certified “foodie” classic. In it\, Fergus Henderson — whose London restaurant\, St. John\, is a world-renowned destination for people who love to eat “on the wild side” — presents the recipes that have marked him out as one of the most innovative\, yet traditional\, chefs. Here are recipes that hark back to a strong rural tradition of delicious thrift\, and that literally represent Henderson’s motto\, “Nose to Tail Eating” — be they Pig’s Trotter Stuffed with Potato\, Rabbit Wrapped in Fennel and Bacon\, or his signature dish of Roast Bone Marrow and Parsley Salad. For those of a less carnivorous bent\, there are also splendid dishes such as Deviled Crab; Smoked Haddock\, Mustard\, and Saffron; Green Beans\, Shallots\, Garlic\, and Anchovies; and to keep the sweetest tooth happy\, there are gloriously satisfying puddings\, notably the St. John Eccles Cakes\, and a very nearly perfect Chocolate Ice Cream.\n\nReviews of The Whole Beast on Goodreads
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LOCATION:Private Home in Sebastopol\, Address with RSVP\, Sebastopol\, CA\, 95472\, United States
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SUMMARY:Piccolo: Insatiable: Tales From a Life of Delicious Excess\, by Gael Greene\, One
DESCRIPTION:For this Piccolo we’re reading Insatiable: Tales From a Life of Delicious Excess\, by Gael Greene\, Acknowledgements\, Prelude\, Chapters 1-10\, (pp. xi-55). \nThe Prelude starts: “I could embellish the story and write that I was just pulling a par of crusty French baguettes out of the oven the fall afternoon of the momentous phone call. I like that image. But then how could you trust me? The unadorned truth is that I was more likely mashing an excess of Hellman’s mayonnaise and a dot of Dijon musterd into some canned tuna. (…) It was Clay Felker\, asking me to be the restaurant critic of his infant New York magazine\, just launched a few months earlier\, in April 1968\, and already provoking major buzz.” \nGael Green’s Website \nOur Piccolo is a quick\, short\, Book Group meeting at a local coffee house on Mondays\, noon – 1pm. We’re meeting at Acre Coffee in Montgomery Village\, Santa Rosa. \nThe selections are from light\, chatty\, gossipy storytelling. \nNo need to RSVP. Just drop by for a piccolo. \n*** \nNY Times about Insatiable: Tales From a Life of Delicious Excess\nTHIRTY years ago\, in her steamy novel “Blue Skies\, No Candy\,” Gael Greene used the language of food to show men “what sex could feel like to a woman.” In “Insatiable: Tales From a Life of Delicious Excess\,” her frank and funny new memoir of her life and loves and the decades she spent as New York magazine’s restaurant critic\, she explains her approach to that early fiction: “I used all the senses\, all the sensory words I used to describe food — the taste and smell of it\, the sound and heat.” She was stunned when male critics scolded her: “I truly thought there was an audience out there ready to discover a woman’s sheer carnal joy.” Nonetheless\, notoriety was her friend. When the Metropolitan Transportation Authority banned the subway ads for the novel’s paperback edition — which showed a woman undoing a man’s zipper — half a million copies sold in one week. More… \nGoodreads: 3.01 · Rating Details · 532 Ratings · 127 Reviews \nRating Details:\n5: 9% (48)\n4: 24% (130)\n3: 34% (181)\n2: 23% (126)\n1: 8% (47)\n67% of people liked it\nAll editions: 3.01 average rating\, 532 ratings\, 127 reviews\, added by 960 people\, 320 to-reads\nThis edition: 3.0 average rating\, 475 ratings\, 121 reviews\, added by 852 people \n\nBibliographic Description of Insatiable: Tales From a Life of Delicious Excess\nAuthor Greene\, Gael.\nTitle Insatiable : tales from a life of delicious excess / Gael Greene.\nImprint New York : Warner Books\, 2006.\nEdition 1st ed. \nDescript xiii\, 368 p.\, [8] p. of plates : ill. ; 24 cm\nNote Includes index.\nSummary In 1968\, Gael Greene became restaurant critic of the fledgling New York magazine. She’d never written a restaurant review in her life\, but she was a passionate foodie\, and dining in great restaurants on someone else’s dime was too enticing to resist. Thus began a remarkable career charting the restaurants that changed the way Americans ate\, the chefs who turned cooking into an art form\, and the food and wines that launched a culinary revolution.–From publisher description.\nSubject Greene\, Gael.\nFood writers — United States — Biography.\nGastronomy.\nISBN 0446576999\nStandard # 9780446576994\nLC CARD # 2005034429\nStandard # BRO-copy20060531-153 BRO-cust20060609-153 BRO-cust20060614-153
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LOCATION:Acre Coffee @ Montgomery Village Shopping Center\, Montgomery Village Shopping Center\, 2365 Midway Drive\, Santa Rosa\, CA\, 95405\, United States
CATEGORIES:Book Group
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20170423T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20170423T190000
DTSTAMP:20260513T084718
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SUMMARY:Making Welcome Real – A Fundraiser for Refugees
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]\nThe event is sold out. If you wish to contribute to this fundraiser please send a check with memo “Making Welcome Real” to:\nSlow Food Russian River\nP.O. Box 2746\nSebastopol\, CA 95473 \n***** \nMaking Welcome Real – A Fundraiser for Refugees\nSlow Food Russian River is hosting a fundraiser buffet dinner for recent Refugee Immigrants: Making Welcome Real – Sunday\, April 23\, 2017 from 4-7 pm. \nThe event will be held at the beautiful Laguna de Santa Rosa Foundation’s Heron Hall\, located at 900 Sanford Road\, Santa Rosa. \nWe are featuring a buffet menu of both Syrian and Afghani cuisine presented by local chef\, Nawar Laham owner of the Santa Rosa’s East West Cafe\, and chef Ali Akbar Raufi a recent immigrant from Afghanistan who has settled in the East Bay. \nWine\, beer and other beverages will be available for purchase. \nSpeakers will be presenting on the current status of refugees in the Bay Area. \nMusic by Vince Delgado\, Coralie Russo and Jana Mariposa \n \nIn these challenging times Slow Food Russian River recognizes that refugees immigrating to the Bay Area in pursuit of safety and new beginnings for their families leave behind friends\, families and employment.  They come with virtually nothing. \nWe wish to help make the transition into American life successful for some of those families by raising funds for Welcome Boxes containing items necessary for setting up kitchens and households.  \nWe are working with the following organizations in getting these boxes to the families in need of them.   \n• IRC – International Rescue Committee\n• JFCS – Jewish Family Community Services – East Bay\n• No One Left Behind \nAt the event\, there will be other opportunities to give monetary donations\, such as contributing towards the purchase of  welcome boxes or backpacks with school supplies for children.   \nCome join us for a delightful evening of delicious middle eastern food\, conversation and fellowship. Let us welcome our new pilgrims into this great nation.  \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=”1/2″ 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=”1/2″ 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]
URL:https://www.oldsf.bmkt.net/event/making-welcome-real-a-fundraiser-for-refugees/
LOCATION:Laguna Environmental Center Heron Hall\, 900 Sanford Road
CATEGORIES:Fundraising Dinner
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ORGANIZER;CN="Marcia Lavine":MAILTO:mf.lavine (at) gmail.com
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20170422T090000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20170422T120000
DTSTAMP:20260513T084718
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SUMMARY:March with Other Grav Lovers in the 2017 Apple Blossom Parade
DESCRIPTION:Walk with other Grav Lovers in the 2017 Apple Blossom Parade\nSlow Food Russian River invites you to walk with other Grav Lovers in the 2017 Apple Blossom Parade. \nOur goal is to keep the Gravenstein Apple and all of our Farmers in the spotlight. As we celebrate our beautiful apple blossoms and anticipate a bountiful\, healthy harvest\, let’s come together in proclaiming “THE GRAVENSTEINS ARE COMING”! \n \nThe Sebastopol Gravenstein Apple is on Slow Food’s Ark of Taste. The Ark of Taste is a living catalog of delicious and distinctive foods facing extinction. By identifying and championing these foods we keep them in production and on our plates. \nGravensteins are in danger of becoming broadly extinct because of many reasons\, the most observable of which are their difficulty to harvest and the alarming loss of land\, as many orchards are being converted to vineyards or rural estates. \nContact person to join the parade Doug Conover\nPhone # during the parade: 707-217-7221 \nHere are the details: \nWe are Division 3\, Entry 10. Staged near Bonnardel Ave and Wallace Str. \nThe parade starts at 10am\, so we will meet near the tennis court of Analy Highschool between 9:30am and 10am.  \nThe suggested apparel is green or anything Slow Food. Apple Blossoms are requested if any are still around. Those who wear a hat can get a bumper sticker attached to it when we meet. \n 
URL:https://www.oldsf.bmkt.net/event/march-grav-lovers-2017-apple-blossom-parade/
LOCATION:Launching Grounds Parade of the Annual Sebastopol Apple Blossom Festival\, Wallace Street\, Sebastopol\, CA\, 95472\, United States
CATEGORIES:Apple Core Event
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ORGANIZER;CN="Slow Food Russian River Apple Core":MAILTO:info@slowfoodrr.org
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20170417T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20170417T130000
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SUMMARY:Piccolo: M.F.K. Fisher\, Julia Child\, and Alice Waters: Celebrating the Pleasures of the Table\, by Joan Reardon\, Seven
DESCRIPTION:For this (seventh) Piccolo we’re reading M.F.K. Fisher\, Julia Child\, and Alice Waters: Celebrating the Pleasures of the Table\, by Joan Reardon\, Chapter 8\, Golden State (pp. 267-288). \nThe chapter starts: “The seeds of the culinary ferment that distinguishes California today were sown during the years that spanned the founding of twenty-one missions from San Diego to Sonoma in the eighteenth century to the baptism of Robert Mondavi’s dramatic\, Mission-style winery in 1966.” \nOur Piccolo is a quick\, short\, Book Group meeting at a local coffee house on Mondays\, noon – 1pm. We’re meeting at Acre Coffee in Montgomery Village\, Santa Rosa. \nThe selections are from light\, chatty\, gossipy storytelling. \nNo need to RSVP. Just drop by for a piccolo. \n*** \nLibrary Journal about M.F.K. Fisher\, Julia Child\, and Alice Waters: Celebrating the Pleasures of the Table\n\n\nReardon (Oysters\, LJ 10/15/84)\, whose articles have been published in the Los Angeles Times and Christian Science Monitor\, serves up a savory biographical repast about three women who revolutioned the culinary arts in America. Breaking the traditional mold of describing food merely in terms of process and presentation\, each brought forth unbridled artistic aspects previously unknown to the culinary scene. \nThe author recounts how M.F.K. Fisher’s culinary writings have reminded readers that food is not only a necessity but an art. She reveals how Julia Child\, the grande dame of televised cookery\, cultivated a renewed interest in French cuisine and gourmet foods for many Americans and how Alice Waters popularized the traditions of California cookery from her Chez Panisse restaurant in Berkeley\, California\, with her emphasis on fresh\, locally grown\, and seasonal ingredients. Reardon discusses mutual friendships and parallels in the lives of these three women. She emphasizes that\, with roots in California and strong influences from France\, each has instilled a new artistic spirit in American cookery. Recommended for general readers.\nMichael A. Lutes\, Univ. of Notre Dame Lib.\, Ind. \n\nBibliographic Description of Celebrating the Pleasures of the Table\nAuthor Reardon\, Joan\, 1930-\nTitle M.F.K. Fisher\, Julia Child\, and Alice Waters : celebrating the pleasures of the table / Joan Reardon.\nImprint New York : Harmony Books\, c1994.\nEdition 1st ed. \nDescript xvi\, 302 p. : ill.\, maps ; 25 cm.\nContents James Beard — Simone (Simca) Beck — Elizabeth David — Lindsey Shere — Julia Child.\nNote Includes bibliographical references (p. 293-297) and index.\nSubject Fisher\, M. F. K. (Mary Frances Kennedy)\, 1908-1992.\nChild\, Julia.\nWaters\, Alice.\nCooks — United States — Biography.\nFood writers — United States — Biography.\nAlt Title MFK Fisher\, Julia Child\, and Alice Waters.\nCelebrating the pleasures of the table.\nLC CARD # 94008650\nISBN 0517577488
URL:https://www.oldsf.bmkt.net/event/piccolo-m-f-k-fisher-julia-child-alice-waters-celebrating-pleasures-table-joan-reardon-seven/
LOCATION:Acre Coffee @ Montgomery Village Shopping Center\, Montgomery Village Shopping Center\, 2365 Midway Drive\, Santa Rosa\, CA\, 95405\, United States
CATEGORIES:Book Group
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ORGANIZER;CN="Slow Food Russian River Book Group":MAILTO:sfrrbookgroup@gmail.com
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20170410T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20170410T130000
DTSTAMP:20260513T084718
CREATED:20170403T153806Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20170403T153806Z
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SUMMARY:Piccolo: M.F.K. Fisher\, Julia Child\, and Alice Waters: Celebrating the Pleasures of the Table\, by Joan Reardon\, Six
DESCRIPTION:For this (sixth) Piccolo we’re reading M.F.K. Fisher\, Julia Child\, and Alice Waters: Celebrating the Pleasures of the Table\, by Joan Reardon\, Chapter 7\, Required Reading (pp. 239 – 266). \nThe chapter starts: “Row after row of The Chez Panisse Menu Cookbook in one of Cody’s display windows in September 1982 emphasized the changes that more than a decade had brought about. Reviewing the book in The Nation [September 25\, 1982]\, David Sundelson referred to Chez Panisse as a “new privatism” turned inward rather than outward on public issues and commitments. And he wrote that “the counter culture has become the Counter Culture–the counter at the gourmet butcher\, the pastry shop\, the charcuterie … . The [Chez Panisse Menu] Cookbook shows how we have changed. ‘Aesthetics’ is the ruling term in its vocabulary; life must be pretty. ‘Understanding\,’ ‘philosophy\,’ and ‘ideology’ now apply only to the kitchen.” He volleyed the charge that Berkeley has always been serious\, “but in a braver time\, that He adds that Berkeley has always been serious\, “but in a braver time\, that seriousness was applied to the Vietnam War and not to an apricot soufflé.” \nOur Piccolo is a quick\, short\, Book Group meeting at a local coffee house on Mondays\, noon – 1pm. We’re meeting at Acre Coffee in Montgomery Village\, Santa Rosa. \nThe selections are from light\, chatty\, gossipy storytelling. \nNo need to RSVP. Just drop by for a piccolo. \n*** \nLibrary Journal about M.F.K. Fisher\, Julia Child\, and Alice Waters: Celebrating the Pleasures of the Table\n\n\nReardon (Oysters\, LJ 10/15/84)\, whose articles have been published in the Los Angeles Times and Christian Science Monitor\, serves up a savory biographical repast about three women who revolutioned the culinary arts in America. Breaking the traditional mold of describing food merely in terms of process and presentation\, each brought forth unbridled artistic aspects previously unknown to the culinary scene. \nThe author recounts how M.F.K. Fisher’s culinary writings have reminded readers that food is not only a necessity but an art. She reveals how Julia Child\, the grande dame of televised cookery\, cultivated a renewed interest in French cuisine and gourmet foods for many Americans and how Alice Waters popularized the traditions of California cookery from her Chez Panisse restaurant in Berkeley\, California\, with her emphasis on fresh\, locally grown\, and seasonal ingredients. Reardon discusses mutual friendships and parallels in the lives of these three women. She emphasizes that\, with roots in California and strong influences from France\, each has instilled a new artistic spirit in American cookery. Recommended for general readers.\nMichael A. Lutes\, Univ. of Notre Dame Lib.\, Ind. \n\nBibliographic Description of Celebrating the Pleasures of the Table\nAuthor Reardon\, Joan\, 1930-\nTitle M.F.K. Fisher\, Julia Child\, and Alice Waters : celebrating the pleasures of the table / Joan Reardon.\nImprint New York : Harmony Books\, c1994.\nEdition 1st ed. \nDescript xvi\, 302 p. : ill.\, maps ; 25 cm.\nContents James Beard — Simone (Simca) Beck — Elizabeth David — Lindsey Shere — Julia Child.\nNote Includes bibliographical references (p. 293-297) and index.\nSubject Fisher\, M. F. K. (Mary Frances Kennedy)\, 1908-1992.\nChild\, Julia.\nWaters\, Alice.\nCooks — United States — Biography.\nFood writers — United States — Biography.\nAlt Title MFK Fisher\, Julia Child\, and Alice Waters.\nCelebrating the pleasures of the table.\nLC CARD # 94008650\nISBN 0517577488
URL:https://www.oldsf.bmkt.net/event/piccolo-m-f-k-fisher-julia-child-and-alice-waters-celebrating-the-pleasures-of-the-table-by-joan-reardon-six/
LOCATION:Acre Coffee @ Montgomery Village Shopping Center\, Montgomery Village Shopping Center\, 2365 Midway Drive\, Santa Rosa\, CA\, 95405\, United States
CATEGORIES:Book Group
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ORGANIZER;CN="Slow Food Russian River Book Group":MAILTO:sfrrbookgroup@gmail.com
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20170406T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20170406T210000
DTSTAMP:20260513T084718
CREATED:20161226T221157Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20170304T153055Z
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SUMMARY:Book Group: The Vegetarian – A Novel\, by Han Kang
DESCRIPTION:The Slow Food Russian River Book Group will be discussing the book The Vegetarian – A Novel (London ; New York : Hogarth\, 2014) by Han Kang on Thursday\, April 6\, 2016. Translated from the Korean by Deborah Smith. Originally published: October 30\, 2007. \nTo RSVP email the Book Group at sfrrbookgroup@gmail.com.  The Book Group is open to anyone who can read\, loves cooking a dish\, and likes a good conversation. \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. \nSummary of The Vegetarian – A Novel\nA beautiful\, unsettling novel about rebellion and taboo\, violence and eroticism\, and the twisting metamorphosis of a soul \nBefore the nightmares began\, Yeong-hye and her husband lived an ordinary\, controlled life. But the dreams—invasive images of blood and brutality—torture her\, driving Yeong-hye to purge her mind and renounce eating meat altogether. It’s a small act of independence\, but it interrupts her marriage and sets into motion an increasingly grotesque chain of events at home. As her husband\, her brother-in-law and sister each fight to reassert their control\, Yeong-hye obsessively defends the choice that’s become sacred to her. Soon their attempts turn desperate\, subjecting first her mind\, and then her body\, to ever more intrusive and perverse violations\, sending Yeong-hye spiraling into a dangerous\, bizarre estrangement\, not only from those closest to her\, but also from herself. \nCelebrated by critics around the world\, The Vegetarian is a darkly allegorical\, Kafka-esque tale of power\, obsession\, and one woman’s struggle to break free from the violence both without and within her. \nWinner of the 2016 Man Booker International Prize \nNAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY The New York Times Book Review • Publisher’s Weekly • Buzzfeed • Entertainment Weekly • Time • Wall Street Journal • Bustle • Elle • The Economist • Slate • The Huffington Post • The St. Louis Dispatch • Electric Literature \nReviews\nWikipedia Entry\n“The Vegetarian (Hangul: 채식주의자; RR: Chaesikju-uija) is a South Korean three-part drama novella written by Han Kang and first published in 2007. Based on Kang’s 1997 short story “The Fruit of My Woman”\, The Vegetarian is set in modern-day Seoul and tells the story of Yeong-hye\, a home-maker\, whose decision to stop eating meat after a bloody\, nightmarish dream about human cruelty.” More… \nBy Porochista Khakpour (NY Times Sunday Book Review\, Feb. 2\, 2016)\n“All the trigger warnings on earth cannot prepare a reader for the traumas of this Korean author’s translated debut in the Anglophone world.” More… \n“The Vegetarian by Han Kang tells a dangerously defiant story\,” by Ilana Masad  (The Guardian\, Friday 23 December 2016)\n“After a frightening dream involving intense violence\, she becomes a vegetarian (really\, she is a vegan as she refuses to eat any animal products). This infuriates her husband\, Mr Cheong\, the narrator of the first portion of the book. He thinks that Yeong-hye is being ridiculous\, whimsical rather than determined. When he finds her clearing out all the meat products from their fridge\, including expensive seafood\, he is incredulous. How is it possible that his docile\, dull\, quiet wife has turned into someone like this?” More… \nThe Bottom Line: ‘The Vegetarian’ by Claire Fallon (The Huffington Post\, January 29\, 2016)\nIn Han Kang’s ‘The Vegetarian\,’ a clean eating obsession is a subversive act of self-reclamation. (…) In South Korea\, meat and animal products have traditionally been staples of the societal diet — bulgogi\, bibimbap with a steaming egg on top\, grilled pork belly\, seafood pancakes — and when character Yeong-hye suddenly gives up all meat and animal products\, it rends her entire social fabric. More… \nBibliographic Information\n\nAuthor Han\, Kang\, 1970-\nTitle The vegetarian : a novel / Han Kang ; translated from the Korean by Deborah Smith.\nImprint London ; New York : Hogarth\, [2015]\nEdition First U.S. edition. \nDescription 188 pages ; 22 cm\nNote Originally published in 2007 in Korean as three separate novelettes and then combined into a novel. — t.p. verso.
URL:https://www.oldsf.bmkt.net/event/book-group-the-vegetarian-a-novel/
LOCATION:Private Home in Sebastopol\, Address with RSVP\, Sebastopol\, CA\, 95472\, United States
CATEGORIES:Book Group
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ORGANIZER;CN="Slow Food Russian River Book Group":MAILTO:sfrrbookgroup@gmail.com
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20170403T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20170403T130000
DTSTAMP:20260513T084718
CREATED:20170401T002550Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20170401T002550Z
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SUMMARY:Piccolo: M.F.K. Fisher\, Julia Child\, and Alice Waters: Celebrating the Pleasures of the Table\, by Joan Reardon\, Five
DESCRIPTION:For this (fifth) Piccolo we’re reading M.F.K. Fisher\, Julia Child\, and Alice Waters: Celebrating the Pleasures of the Table\, by Joan Reardon\, Chapter 6\, Seasoned in Provence (pp. 203 – 237). \nThe chapter starts: “From the day the front door of Chez Panisse opened to the public on August 28\, 1971\, no single phenomenon has characterized Berkeley’s “new sensibility’ or signaled the shift in culinary attention from the East Coast to the West more than the demand for dinner reservations at Alice Waters’restaurant.” \nOur Piccolo is a quick\, short\, Book Group meeting at a local coffee house on Mondays\, noon – 1pm (we moved it an hour later). We’re meeting at Acre Coffee in Montgomery Village\, Santa Rosa. \nThe selections are from light\, chatty\, gossipy storytelling. \nNo need to RSVP. Just drop by for a piccolo. \n*** \nLibrary Journal about M.F.K. Fisher\, Julia Child\, and Alice Waters: Celebrating the Pleasures of the Table\n\n\nReardon (Oysters\, LJ 10/15/84)\, whose articles have been published in the Los Angeles Times and Christian Science Monitor\, serves up a savory biographical repast about three women who revolutioned the culinary arts in America. Breaking the traditional mold of describing food merely in terms of process and presentation\, each brought forth unbridled artistic aspects previously unknown to the culinary scene. \nThe author recounts how M.F.K. Fisher’s culinary writings have reminded readers that food is not only a necessity but an art. She reveals how Julia Child\, the grande dame of televised cookery\, cultivated a renewed interest in French cuisine and gourmet foods for many Americans and how Alice Waters popularized the traditions of California cookery from her Chez Panisse restaurant in Berkeley\, California\, with her emphasis on fresh\, locally grown\, and seasonal ingredients. Reardon discusses mutual friendships and parallels in the lives of these three women. She emphasizes that\, with roots in California and strong influences from France\, each has instilled a new artistic spirit in American cookery. Recommended for general readers.\nMichael A. Lutes\, Univ. of Notre Dame Lib.\, Ind. \n\nBibliographic Description of Celebrating the Pleasures of the Table\nAuthor Reardon\, Joan\, 1930-\nTitle M.F.K. Fisher\, Julia Child\, and Alice Waters : celebrating the pleasures of the table / Joan Reardon.\nImprint New York : Harmony Books\, c1994.\nEdition 1st ed. \nDescript xvi\, 302 p. : ill.\, maps ; 25 cm.\nContents James Beard — Simone (Simca) Beck — Elizabeth David — Lindsey Shere — Julia Child.\nNote Includes bibliographical references (p. 293-297) and index.\nSubject Fisher\, M. F. K. (Mary Frances Kennedy)\, 1908-1992.\nChild\, Julia.\nWaters\, Alice.\nCooks — United States — Biography.\nFood writers — United States — Biography.\nAlt Title MFK Fisher\, Julia Child\, and Alice Waters.\nCelebrating the pleasures of the table.\nLC CARD # 94008650\nISBN 0517577488
URL:https://www.oldsf.bmkt.net/event/piccolo-m-f-k-fisher-julia-child-and-alice-waters-celebrating-the-pleasures-of-the-table-by-joan-reardon-five/
LOCATION:Acre Coffee @ Montgomery Village Shopping Center\, Montgomery Village Shopping Center\, 2365 Midway Drive\, Santa Rosa\, CA\, 95405\, United States
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ORGANIZER;CN="Slow Food Russian River Book Group":MAILTO:sfrrbookgroup@gmail.com
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20170327T110000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20170327T120000
DTSTAMP:20260513T084718
CREATED:20170313T200712Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20170314T112150Z
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SUMMARY:Piccolo: M.F.K. Fisher\, Julia Child\, and Alice Waters: Celebrating the Pleasures of the Table\, by Joan Reardon\, Four
DESCRIPTION:For this (fourth) Piccolo we’re reading M.F.K. Fisher\, Julia Child\, and Alice Waters: Celebrating the Pleasures of the Table\, by Joan Reardon\, Chapter 5\, Bon Appétit (pp. 151 – 201). \nThe chapter starts: “The French Chef series\, which debuted on Boston’s public television station\, WGBH\, on February 11\, 1963\, was not only the validation of Julia’s professional career\, but also the beginning of a future of fun\, friens and fabulous good fortune* …” \n*Some of up have been reading Success and Luck – Good Fortune and the Myth of Meritocracy\, by Robert H. Frank\, about the importance of luck in economic success… \nFor information on Julia Child’s lie and achievents consult the website of the Julia Child Foundation for Gastronomy and the Culinary Arts. \nOur Piccolo is a quick\, short\, Book Group meeting at a local coffee house on Mondays\, 11am – noon. This time we’re meeting at Acre Coffee in Montgomery Village\, Santa Rosa. \nThe selections are from light\, chatty\, gossipy storytelling. \nNo need to RSVP. Just drop by for a piccolo. \n*** \nLibrary Journal about M.F.K. Fisher\, Julia Child\, and Alice Waters: Celebrating the Pleasures of the Table\n\n\nReardon (Oysters\, LJ 10/15/84)\, whose articles have been published in the Los Angeles Times and Christian Science Monitor\, serves up a savory biographical repast about three women who revolutioned the culinary arts in America. Breaking the traditional mold of describing food merely in terms of process and presentation\, each brought forth unbridled artistic aspects previously unknown to the culinary scene. \nThe author recounts how M.F.K. Fisher’s culinary writings have reminded readers that food is not only a necessity but an art. She reveals how Julia Child\, the grande dame of televised cookery\, cultivated a renewed interest in French cuisine and gourmet foods for many Americans and how Alice Waters popularized the traditions of California cookery from her Chez Panisse restaurant in Berkeley\, California\, with her emphasis on fresh\, locally grown\, and seasonal ingredients. Reardon discusses mutual friendships and parallels in the lives of these three women. She emphasizes that\, with roots in California and strong influences from France\, each has instilled a new artistic spirit in American cookery. Recommended for general readers.\nMichael A. Lutes\, Univ. of Notre Dame Lib.\, Ind. \n\nBibliographic Description of Celebrating the Pleasures of the Table\nAuthor Reardon\, Joan\, 1930-\nTitle M.F.K. Fisher\, Julia Child\, and Alice Waters : celebrating the pleasures of the table / Joan Reardon.\nImprint New York : Harmony Books\, c1994.\nEdition 1st ed. \nDescript xvi\, 302 p. : ill.\, maps ; 25 cm.\nContents James Beard — Simone (Simca) Beck — Elizabeth David — Lindsey Shere — Julia Child.\nNote Includes bibliographical references (p. 293-297) and index.\nSubject Fisher\, M. F. K. (Mary Frances Kennedy)\, 1908-1992.\nChild\, Julia.\nWaters\, Alice.\nCooks — United States — Biography.\nFood writers — United States — Biography.\nAlt Title MFK Fisher\, Julia Child\, and Alice Waters.\nCelebrating the pleasures of the table.\nLC CARD # 94008650\nISBN 0517577488
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LOCATION:Acre Coffee @ Montgomery Village Shopping Center\, Montgomery Village Shopping Center\, 2365 Midway Drive\, Santa Rosa\, CA\, 95405\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20170324T161500
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DTSTAMP:20260513T084718
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SUMMARY:FILM: An Acquired Taste\, Sponsored by Slow Food Russian River
DESCRIPTION:The Film: An Acquired Taste\nSlow Food Russian River is proud to sponsor the film An Acquired Taste\, directed by Vanessa LeMaire\, as part of the 10th Annual Sebastopol Documentary Film Festival. Friday\, March 24\, 2017\, 4:15 – 6pm. Doors open 3:45pm. \nTickets for An Acquired Taste\nIndividual Tickets for the film are $12 (General Admission) and $10 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 things 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 and in general at http://sebastopolfilmfestival.org/tickets/\nYou can purchase tickets for individual films via the program 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 An Acquired Taste\nAs the food movement grows across America\, a young generation of mindful meat-eaters rejects factory farms and turns to hunting for the ultimate protein. Animal lovers Nick\, Alex and Ashlie leave behind their modern lives and embark on a journey that is foreign to their parents — partly to eat dinner\, and partly to carve out their identities in a world increasingly at odds with reality and nature. \nSlow Food’s Slow Meat Campaign\nFor over 10 years Slow Food has been on the front line concerning meat consumption and animal welfare and\, as always\, acts in a variety of areas: farming methods\, production and consumption. \nSlow Meat is an international campaign that brings together diverse people to turn the herd away from the tyranny of cheap meat and toward a food system that is good\, clean and fair for all. \nMeat is a pivotal issue\, emblematic of the unsustainable and unethical practices that are part and parcel of the industrial food system. By championing better methods of animal husbandry and better consumption practices\, together we are creating a healthier and happier world. \nThe young generation of mindful meat-eaters portrayed in this film respond to these unsustainable and unethical practices in a radical manner by hunting their own meat and in doing so align themselves with Slow Food’s goal to eat less meat\, but better meat\, ethically and nutritionally. \nThis year’s Slow Meat event in the USA  is part of Slow Food Nations\, food festival in Denver\, CO\, July 13-16. Slow Food Nations features dozens of interactive workshops\, innovative tastings\, local tours\, educational panels\, and plenty of delicious meals and parties\, Slow Food Nations transforms how farmers and families\, leaders and eaters share our stories and shape the future of food. \nFrom the Press\n“Why kill your own food? An Acquired Taste delves into the inner conflicts of a new urban breed in the San Francisco Bay Area: locavore hunters. Defying factory farms\, a young\, mindful generation learns to hunt as a way of connecting with the source of their sustenance. Vanessa Lemaire’s feature debut is a profound reflection on what makes us human.” (LostIn SF) \nAbout the Director\nLet’s talk a bit about the director\, Vanessa LeMaire. She is an award-winning French Documentary Producer/Director who advances environmental conservation with character-driven non-fiction. She holds a Masters in Environmental Science and a Degree in Film from San Francisco State University and centers her productions on man’s relationship with nature. Vanessa has worked as a director\, writer\, cinematographer and editor for non-profits worldwide. Her clients comprise a U.N. sanitation organization trying to resolve the global toilet shortages as well as American-based research institutes harnessing markets to resolve fisheries\, forest and water crises. \nThis is her first feature-film\, a documentary for which she was awarded a fellowship by The Moving Picture Institute. An Acquired Taste held its World Premiere at the San Francisco Green Film Festival in April 2016. It was showing last fall at BendFilm in Bend\, Oregon\, at Austin Film Festival and at The American Conservation Film Festival\,an annual event held in Shepherdstown\, West Virginia. More on the film at http://www.aatmovie.com/
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LOCATION:Rialto Cinemas\, 6868 McKinley Street\, Sebastopol\, CA\, 95472\, United States
CATEGORIES:Film Event
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SUMMARY:Piccolo: M.F.K. Fisher\, Julia Child\, and Alice Waters: Celebrating the Pleasures of the Table\, by Joan Reardon\, Three
DESCRIPTION:For this (third) Piccolo we’re reading M.F.K. Fisher\, Julia Child\, and Alice Waters: Celebrating the Pleasures of the Table\, by Joan Reardon\, Chapter 4\, In Julia’s Kitchen (pp. 111 – 150). \nThe chapter starts: “Kitchens* have not always been Julia Child’s mise-en-scène. In fact her recollections of the one in the big\, brown-shingled house on South Pasadena Avenue where she grew up… \n* “In November 2001\, when Julia Child left her Massachusetts home of forty-two years to return to her native California\, she gave her kitchen to the Smithsonian’s National Museum of American History\, Behring Center. More…” \nOur Piccolo is a quick\, short\, Book Group meeting at a local coffee house on Mondays\, 11am – noon. This time we’re meeting at Acre Coffee in Montgomery Village\, Santa Rosa. \nThe selections are from light\, chatty\, gossipy storytelling. \nNo need to RSVP. Just drop by for a piccolo. \n*** \nLibrary Journal about M.F.K. Fisher\, Julia Child\, and Alice Waters: Celebrating the Pleasures of the Table\n\n\nReardon (Oysters\, LJ 10/15/84)\, whose articles have been published in the Los Angeles Times and Christian Science Monitor\, serves up a savory biographical repast about three women who revolutioned the culinary arts in America. Breaking the traditional mold of describing food merely in terms of process and presentation\, each brought forth unbridled artistic aspects previously unknown to the culinary scene. \nThe author recounts how M.F.K. Fisher’s culinary writings have reminded readers that food is not only a necessity but an art. She reveals how Julia Child\, the grande dame of televised cookery\, cultivated a renewed interest in French cuisine and gourmet foods for many Americans and how Alice Waters popularized the traditions of California cookery from her Chez Panisse restaurant in Berkeley\, California\, with her emphasis on fresh\, locally grown\, and seasonal ingredients. Reardon discusses mutual friendships and parallels in the lives of these three women. She emphasizes that\, with roots in California and strong influences from France\, each has instilled a new artistic spirit in American cookery. Recommended for general readers.\nMichael A. Lutes\, Univ. of Notre Dame Lib.\, Ind. \n\nBibliographic Description of Celebrating the Pleasures of the Table\nAuthor Reardon\, Joan\, 1930-\nTitle M.F.K. Fisher\, Julia Child\, and Alice Waters : celebrating the pleasures of the table / Joan Reardon.\nImprint New York : Harmony Books\, c1994.\nEdition 1st ed. \nDescript xvi\, 302 p. : ill.\, maps ; 25 cm.\nContents James Beard — Simone (Simca) Beck — Elizabeth David — Lindsey Shere — Julia Child.\nNote Includes bibliographical references (p. 293-297) and index.\nSubject Fisher\, M. F. K. (Mary Frances Kennedy)\, 1908-1992.\nChild\, Julia.\nWaters\, Alice.\nCooks — United States — Biography.\nFood writers — United States — Biography.\nAlt Title MFK Fisher\, Julia Child\, and Alice Waters.\nCelebrating the pleasures of the table.\nLC CARD # 94008650\nISBN 0517577488
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LOCATION:Acre Coffee @ Montgomery Village Shopping Center\, Montgomery Village Shopping Center\, 2365 Midway Drive\, Santa Rosa\, CA\, 95405\, United States
CATEGORIES:Book Group
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20170306T110000
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SUMMARY:Piccolo: M.F.K. Fisher\, Julia Child\, and Alice Waters: Celebrating the Pleasures of the Table\, by Joan Reardon\, Two
DESCRIPTION:For this (second) Piccolo we’re reading M.F.K. Fisher\, Julia Child\, and Alice Waters: Celebrating the Pleasures of the Table\, by Joan Reardon\, Chapter 3\, D*E*A*R F*R*I*E*N*D (pp. 69 – 110). \nThe chapter starts “The story of how the salutations “Dear Mrs. Child” and “Dear Mrs. Fisher” changed to “Dear Julia” and Dear Mary Francis” and then to “D*E*A*R F*R*I*E*N*D” is not a tale oft told.” \nOur Piccolo is a quick\, short\, Book Group meeting at a local coffee house on Mondays\, 11am – noon. This time we’re meeting at Acre Coffee in Montgomery Village\, Santa Rosa. \nThe selections are from light\, chatty\, gossipy storytelling. \nNo need to RSVP. Just drop by for a piccolo. \n*** \nLibrary Journal about M.F.K. Fisher\, Julia Child\, and Alice Waters: Celebrating the Pleasures of the Table\n\n\nReardon (Oysters\, LJ 10/15/84)\, whose articles have been published in the Los Angeles Times and Christian Science Monitor\, serves up a savory biographical repast about three women who revolutioned the culinary arts in America. Breaking the traditional mold of describing food merely in terms of process and presentation\, each brought forth unbridled artistic aspects previously unknown to the culinary scene. \nThe author recounts how M.F.K. Fisher’s culinary writings have reminded readers that food is not only a necessity but an art. She reveals how Julia Child\, the grande dame of televised cookery\, cultivated a renewed interest in French cuisine and gourmet foods for many Americans and how Alice Waters popularized the traditions of California cookery from her Chez Panisse restaurant in Berkeley\, California\, with her emphasis on fresh\, locally grown\, and seasonal ingredients. Reardon discusses mutual friendships and parallels in the lives of these three women. She emphasizes that\, with roots in California and strong influences from France\, each has instilled a new artistic spirit in American cookery. Recommended for general readers.\nMichael A. Lutes\, Univ. of Notre Dame Lib.\, Ind. \n\nBibliographic Description of Celebrating the Pleasures of the Table\nAuthor Reardon\, Joan\, 1930-\nTitle M.F.K. Fisher\, Julia Child\, and Alice Waters : celebrating the pleasures of the table / Joan Reardon.\nImprint New York : Harmony Books\, c1994.\nEdition 1st ed. \nDescript xvi\, 302 p. : ill.\, maps ; 25 cm.\nContents James Beard — Simone (Simca) Beck — Elizabeth David — Lindsey Shere — Julia Child.\nNote Includes bibliographical references (p. 293-297) and index.\nSubject Fisher\, M. F. K. (Mary Frances Kennedy)\, 1908-1992.\nChild\, Julia.\nWaters\, Alice.\nCooks — United States — Biography.\nFood writers — United States — Biography.\nAlt Title MFK Fisher\, Julia Child\, and Alice Waters.\nCelebrating the pleasures of the table.\nLC CARD # 94008650\nISBN 0517577488
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LOCATION:Acre Coffee @ Montgomery Village Shopping Center\, Montgomery Village Shopping Center\, 2365 Midway Drive\, Santa Rosa\, CA\, 95405\, United States
CATEGORIES:Book Group
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20170305T150000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20170305T180000
DTSTAMP:20260513T084718
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SUMMARY:2017 Annual Members and Community Meeting
DESCRIPTION:All Good\, Clean and Fair Food Lovers are invited to get together for conviviality\, conversation\, and a delicious Middle Eastern meal prepared by Isa Jacoby at our 2017 Annual Members and Community Meeting where we will lay out the year ahead.    \nBring appetizers and desserts\, beverages (alcoholic or otherwise). Bring your own plates\, napkins\, utensils\, glass. And bring a friend and learn about the impact of Slow Food to help create a healthier food system \nSunday\, March 5\n3 – 6 pm\nSebastopol Subud Hall \nFree but you need to RSVP\n\nWe will cover these topics at our 2017 Annual Members and Community Meeting\n• Recap of our work for 2016 and looking forward to 2017 projects including reports about and discussion of: \n• Michael Dimock\, President of Roots of Change\, co-founder of Slow Food Russian River\, and Past President of Slow Food USA\, will discuss the challenges and opportunites we face in 2017 in our quest for good\, clean and fair food for all. \n • Steele Lane School Garden\n• Apple Core and Community Apple Press\n• 4-H Turkey Project\n• Book Group\n• Slow Food California\n• Snail of Approval Project\n• Slow Food Nations\, Denver\, July 14-16\, 2017\n• Strawberry Event 2017\n• Cider Event\n• Media Team\n• Refugee Project\n• Treasurer’s Report \n •  Election of Leadership Team for 2017 \n • Opportunities to get involved as a volunteer: Sign-up at the meeting! \nAbout Slow Food Russian River\n\n\n\n\nWe are Slow Food Russian River\, Sonoma County\, California\, a SFUSA chapter of Slow Food\, the international organization dedicated to a food system that gives us Good Food\, Healthy Food\, Clean Environment\, Fair Pay\, and Food Justice\, for all. \nWe are located in Sonoma County\, California\, in an area covering Santa Rosa\, Rohnert Park and Cotati\, and further toward the Pacific Ocean\, with towns and hamlets in West County\, such as Sebastopol\, Freestone\, Valley Ford\, Bodega and Bodega Bay\, Occidental\, Graton\, Forestville\, Guerneville\, Jenner\, Duncan Mills\, Rio Nido. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nSonoma County is well known for the wealth and breadth of its agricultural heritage and its open spaces. Our grapes and wines\, our apples\, cider and Eau de Vie de Pomme\, our barley\, hops\, and beers\, our sheep\, goats and cows\, and milk\, yoghurts\, and cheeses\, the wools and meats\, charcuterie. \nTo become a member of Slow Food Russian River sign up at Slow Food USA and give “Russian River” as your desired chapter affiliation.
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LOCATION:Subud Hall\, 234 Hutchins Ave\, Sebastopol\, CA\, 95472\, United States
CATEGORIES:Annual Meeting
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20170302T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20170302T210000
DTSTAMP:20260513T084718
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SUMMARY:Book Group: The End of Plenty: The Race to Feed a Crowded World
DESCRIPTION:The Slow Food Russian River Book Group will be discussing the book The End of Plenty: The Race to Feed a Crowded World (New York : W. W. Norton & Company\, 2015) by Joel K. Bourne Jr. on Thursday\, February 2\, 2017. \nTo RSVP email the Book Group at sfrrbookgroup@gmail.com.  The Book Group is open to anyone who can read\, loves cooking a dish\, and likes a good conversation. \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. \nTable of Contents\nThe curse — Famine’s lethal lessons — The green revolution : food\, sex\, and war — The plight of the punjab — China : landraces and Lamborghinis — Food\, fuel\, and profit — The gauntlet — The blue revolution — Back in the USSR — The blooming desert — Magic seeds : feeding shareholders or the world — Organic agriculture feeding the rich or enriching the poor — The Malawi miracle — The grand desiderata. \nSummary\n“In The End of Plenty\, award-winning environmental journalist Joel K. Bourne Jr. puts our race to feed the world in dramatic perspective. With a skyrocketing world population and tightening global grain supplies spurring riots and revolutions\, humanity must produce as much food in the next four decades as it has since the beginning of civilization to avoid a Malthusian catastrophe. Yet climate change could render half our farmland useless by century’s end. Part history\, part reportage and advocacy\, The End of Plenty is a panoramic account of the future of food\, and a clarion call for anyone concerned about our planet and its people.”– Amazon. \nFrom the website of the author\, Joel K. Bourne Jr.\nWith skyrocketing population and tightening grain supplies spurring riots\, revolutions\, and immigration around the globe\, experts now say we must grow as much food in the next four decades as we have since the beginning of civilization to avoid a Malthusian catastrophe. Yet climate change could render half our farmland useless by century’s end. Bourne takes readers from his own family farm to international agricultural hotspots to introduce a new generation of farmers and scientists engaged in the greatest challenge humanity has ever faced. The stakes could not be higher. \nUrgent and at times terrifying…Joel Bourne’s richly researched and passionately argued report is a wake-up call\, and also a call to action.\nHampton Sides\, author of In the Kingdom of Ice \nJoel Bourne shows how food supplies will present a strategic challenge for America’s national security in the coming years. The time for action is now–and the consequences for failing to heed Bourne’s advice may be devastating.\nGen. Hugh Shelton\, 14th Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff (retired)\, author of Without Hesitation \nOther Publications by Joel Bourne\nOther Publications are listed on his LinkedIn page. \nGoodreads Reviews of The End of Plenty: The Race to Feed a Crowded World\n\nRichard Reese rated it it was amazing  ·  review of another edition\n\n\nNothing is more precious than balance\, stability\, and sustainability. Today\, we’re hanging by our fingernails to a skyrocket of intense insane change\, and it’s the only way of life we’ve ever known. Joel Bourne has spent his life riding the rocket. He grew up on a farm\, and studied agronomy at college\, but sharp changes were causing many farmers to go bankrupt. Taking over the family farm would have been extremely risky\, so he became a writer for farm magazines. Later\, he was hired by National Geographic\, where he has spent most of his career. \nIn 2008\, he was assigned to cover the global food crisis\, and this project hurled him into full awareness of the big picture. The Green Revolution caused food production to skyrocket\, and world population doubled in just 40 years. Then\, the revolution fizzled out\, whilst population continued to soar. Demographers have told us to expect another two or three billion for dinner in 2050. Obviously\, this had the makings of an excellent book\, so Bourne sat down and wrote The End of Plenty. \nThe subtitle of his book is “The Race to Feed a Crowded World\,” not “The Race to Tackle Overpopulation.” More… \n\n\nOther Inter/Re/views of The End of Plenty: The Race to Feed a Crowded World\n• Interview of the author by Dave Davies on NPR\, As Global Population Grows\, Is The Earth Reaching The ‘End Of Plenty’? (June 8\, 2015) \n• Review by Ry Patel in the New York Times Sunday Book Review\, The End of Plenty\, (July 24\, 2015) \n• In Kirkus Reviews\, (March 20\, 2015) \n• Harry Johnstone in TLS (July 13\, 2016) Joel Bourne writes about this on his Facebook page: “The Times Literary Supplement (London) recently reviewed my book\, The End of Plenty. Unfortunately the reviewer believes political reforms–not increased production–are all we need to solve the global food crisis. While such reforms are certainly necessary\, as one African farmer told me years ago\, “You can’t eat democracy.” \n\nBibliographic Information\n\nAuthor: Bourne\, Joel K.\, Jr.\nTitle: The end of plenty : the race to feed a crowded world / Joel K. Bourne Jr.\nImprint New York : W. W. Norton & Company\, 2015.\nEdition: First edition.\nDescription: 408 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.\nNote: Includes bibliographical references (pages [379]-392) and index.\nSubject :Food supply — Forecasting.\nFood consumption forecasting.\nFood security.\nLC CARD # 2015001552\nISBN 9780393079531 (hardcover)\n0393079538 (hardcover)
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LOCATION:Private Home in Sebastopol\, Address with RSVP\, Sebastopol\, CA\, 95472\, United States
CATEGORIES:Book Group
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20170227T110000
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SUMMARY:Piccolo: M.F.K. Fisher\, Julia Child\, and Alice Waters: Celebrating the Pleasures of the Table\, by Joan Reardon\, One
DESCRIPTION:For this (first) Piccolo we’re reading M.F.K. Fisher\, Julia Child\, and Alice Waters: Celebrating the Pleasures of the Table\, by Joan Reardon\, up to page 66. \nOur Piccolo is a quick\, short\, Book Group meeting at a local coffee house on Mondays\, 11am – noon. This time we’re meeting at Acre Coffee in Montgomery Village\, Santa Rosa. \nThe selections are from light\, chatty\, gossipy storytelling. \nNo need to RSVP. Just drop by for a piccolo. \n*** \nLibrary Journal about M.F.K. Fisher\, Julia Child\, and Alice Waters: Celebrating the Pleasures of the Table\n\n\nReardon (Oysters\, LJ 10/15/84)\, whose articles have been published in the Los Angeles Times and Christian Science Monitor\, serves up a savory biographical repast about three women who revolutioned the culinary arts in America. Breaking the traditional mold of describing food merely in terms of process and presentation\, each brought forth unbridled artistic aspects previously unknown to the culinary scene. \nThe author recounts how M.F.K. Fisher’s culinary writings have reminded readers that food is not only a necessity but an art. She reveals how Julia Child\, the grande dame of televised cookery\, cultivated a renewed interest in French cuisine and gourmet foods for many Americans and how Alice Waters popularized the traditions of California cookery from her Chez Panisse restaurant in Berkeley\, California\, with her emphasis on fresh\, locally grown\, and seasonal ingredients. Reardon discusses mutual friendships and parallels in the lives of these three women. She emphasizes that\, with roots in California and strong influences from France\, each has instilled a new artistic spirit in American cookery. Recommended for general readers.\nMichael A. Lutes\, Univ. of Notre Dame Lib.\, Ind. \n\nBibliographic Description of Celebrating the Pleasures of the Table\nAuthor Reardon\, Joan\, 1930-\nTitle M.F.K. Fisher\, Julia Child\, and Alice Waters : celebrating the pleasures of the table / Joan Reardon.\nImprint New York : Harmony Books\, c1994.\nEdition 1st ed. \nDescript xvi\, 302 p. : ill.\, maps ; 25 cm.\nContents James Beard — Simone (Simca) Beck — Elizabeth David — Lindsey Shere — Julia Child.\nNote Includes bibliographical references (p. 293-297) and index.\nSubject Fisher\, M. F. K. (Mary Frances Kennedy)\, 1908-1992.\nChild\, Julia.\nWaters\, Alice.\nCooks — United States — Biography.\nFood writers — United States — Biography.\nAlt Title MFK Fisher\, Julia Child\, and Alice Waters.\nCelebrating the pleasures of the table.\nLC CARD # 94008650\nISBN 0517577488 \n 
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LOCATION:Acre Coffee @ Montgomery Village Shopping Center\, Montgomery Village Shopping Center\, 2365 Midway Drive\, Santa Rosa\, CA\, 95405\, United States
CATEGORIES:Book Group
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SUMMARY:Book Group: Delizia!: The Epic History of the Italians and Their Food
DESCRIPTION:The Slow Food Russian River Book Group will be discussing the book Delizia!: The Epic History of the Italians and Their Food (Free Press\, 2008) by John Dickie on Thursday\, February 1\, 2016. \nTo RSVP email the Book Group at sfrrbookgroup@gmail.com.  The Book Group is open to anyone who can read\, loves cooking a dish\, and likes a good conversation. \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. \nSummary of Delizia!\nBuon appetito! Everyone loves Italian food. But how did the Italians come to eat so well?\nThe answer lies amid the vibrant beauty of Italy’s historic cities. For a thousand years\, they have been magnets for everything that makes for great eating: ingredients\, talent\, money\, and power. Italian food is city food. \nFrom the bustle of medieval Milan’s marketplace to the banqueting halls of Renaissance Ferrara; from street stalls in the putrid alleyways of nineteenth-century Naples to the noisy trattorie of postwar Rome: in rich slices of urban life\, historian and master storyteller John Dickie shows how taste\, creativity\, and civic pride blended with princely arrogance\, political violence\, and dark intrigue to create the world’s favorite cuisine. Delizia! is much more than a history of Italian food. It is a history of Italy told through the flavors and character of its cities. \nA dynamic chronicle that is full of surprises\, Delizia! draws back the curtain on much that was unknown about Italian food and exposes the long-held canards. It interprets the ancient Arabic map that tells of pasta’s true origins\, and shows that Marco Polo did not introduce spaghetti to the Italians\, as is often thought\, but did have a big influence on making pasta a part of the American diet. It seeks out the medieval recipes that reveal Italy’s long love affair with exotic spices\, and introduces the great Renaissance cookery writer who plotted to murder the Pope even as he detailed the aphrodisiac qualities of his ingredients. It moves from the opulent theater of a Renaissance wedding banquet\, with its gargantuan ten-course menu comprising hundreds of separate dishes\, to the thin soups and bland polentas that would eventually force millions to emigrate to the New World. It shows how early pizzas were disgusting and why Mussolini championed risotto. Most important\, it explains the origins and growth of the world’s greatest urban food culture. \nWith its delectable mix of vivid storytelling\, groundbreaking research\, and shrewd analysis\, Delizia! is as appetizing as the dishes it describes. This passionate account of Italy’s civilization of the table will satisfy foodies\, history buffs\, Italophiles\, travelers\, students — and anyone who loves a well-told tale. \nTable of Contents\nTuscany : don’t tell the peasants \nPalermo\, 1154 : pasta and the planisphere \nMilan\, 1288 : power\, providence\, and parsnips \nVenice\, 1300s : Chinese whispers \nRome\, 1468 : respectable pleasure \nFerrara\, 1529 : a dynasty at table \nRome\, 1549-50 : bread and water for their Eminences \nBologna\, 1600s : the game of cockaigne \nNaples\, late 1700s : maccheroni-eaters \nTurin\, 1846 : Viva l’Italia! \nNaples\, 1884 : Pinocchio hates pizza \nFlorence\, 1891 : pellegrino Artusi \nGenoa\, 1884-1918 :emigrants and prisoners \nRome\, 1925-38 : Mussolini’s rustic village \nTurin\, 1931 : the Holy Palate tavern \nMilan\, 1936 : housewives and epicures \nRome\, 1954 : miracle food \nBologna\, 1974 : mamma’s tortellini \nGenoa\, 2001-2006 : faulty basil \nTurin\, 2006 : peasants to the rescue! \nGoodreads Reviews\n“Or “Everything you think you know about Italian food is wrong”.\nExhaustively researched\, full of fascinating anecdotes\, and at least as much history and sociology as cuisine. Learn about the Renaissance’s obssession with sugar and spice\, how the Arabs invented pasta\, why northern Italians thought pizza would give them cholera\, and how many “traditional\, authentic” Italian foods are relatively recent (i.e. 20th century) inventions.”\n\nMore reviews…\nOther Reviews\nBy Rocio C. on the blog\, How to be the hero of your own kitchen! (February 15\, 2016) \n\n“John has built an intriguing\, complex and unexpected narrative around Italian food.Food as a cultural product manifests so much more than evocative traditions or idyllic family scenes. Food as life itself adapts to survive. It says so much more about raw hunger and bold desire than any other social manifestation. Because unlike anything else\, we need food to live\, whatever it takes\, however it comes. More… \n\nBy Paul Levy in the Observer (August 18\, 2007)\n“For us in the 21st century\, Italian food is the cuisine of affluence. As John Dickie\, reader in Italian Studies at UCL points out: ‘Italy has become the model to imitate when it comes to making ingredients\, cooking them and eating them.’ There are now trattorias for those who can afford them in Bangkok and Beijing . The ingredients most prized by rich gastronomes are Italian – white truffles\, Manni olive oil\, Parmigiano-Reggiano cheese\, aged balsamic vinegar\, Amalfi lemons – as are today’s fashionable foodstuffs\, such as buffalo mozzarella\, ricotta\, polenta … the list is a long one. Yet we think of most of these as having a peasant provenance.” More…\nBibliographic Information\n\nAuthor Dickie\, John\, 1963-\nTitle Delizia! : the epic history of the Italians and their food / John Dickie.\nImprint New York\, NY : Free Press\, 2008.\nEdition 1st Free Press hardcover ed.Descript x\, 367 p. : ill.\, maps ; 24 cm.\nContents Tuscany : don’t tell the peasants — Palermo\, 1154 : pasta and the planisphere — Milan\, 1288 : power\, providence\, and parsnips — Venice\, 1300s : Chinese whispers — Rome\, 1468 : respectable pleasure — Ferrara\, 1529 : a dynasty at table — Rome\, 1549-50 : bread and water for their Eminences — Bologna\, 1600s : the game of cockaigne — Naples\, late 1700s : maccheroni-eaters — Turin\, 1846 : Viva l’Italia! — Naples\, 1884 : Pinocchio hates pizza — Florence\, 1891 : pellegrino Artusi — Genoa\, 1884-1918 :emigrants and prisoners — Rome\, 1925-38 : Mussolini’s rustic village — Turin\, 1931 : the Holy Palate tavern — Milan\, 1936 : housewives and epicures — Rome\, 1954 : miracle food — Bologna\, 1974 : mamma’s tortellini — Genoa\, 2001-2006 : faulty basil — Turin\, 2006 : peasants to the rescue!\nNote Includes bibliographical references and index.\nSubject Gastronomy — Italy — History.\nFood habits — Italy — History.\nCooking\, Italian — History.\nItaly — Social life and customs.\nISBN 9780743277990\n0743277996\nLC CARD # 07015302
URL:https://www.oldsf.bmkt.net/event/book-group-delizia-epic-history-italians-food/
LOCATION:Private Home in Sebastopol\, Address with RSVP\, Sebastopol\, CA\, 95472\, United States
CATEGORIES:Book Group
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20161211T150000
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SUMMARY:2016 Holiday Party
DESCRIPTION:Our 2016 Holiday Party\nPlease join us at our 2016 Holiday Party\, Sunday December 11th from 3 to 6 pm at the Vanguard Properties office in the Barlow\, 6970 McKinley Street@theBarlow\, Sebastopol. \nThe ritual of sharing food is a vital way that we connect. Let’s gather to celebrate the abundance in our lives\, and find common ground around the table.  Food has the power to unite us. Gifts of food demonstrate that we care about each other. \nPlease bring appetizers or desserts to share – finger food please.  We have wine and local cider to share with you. \n \nGift Giving at our 2016 Holiday Party\nWe are collecting childrens books for The Living Room\, a day center serving at risk women and children\, and clean socks. We are collecting sweats for the emergency room at Sonoma West Medical Center\, where many patients without homes or money show up cold and wet. \nThe Mission of The Living Room is to ease adversity and promote stability\, dignity and self-reliance for women and children who are homeless\, or at-risk of homelessness\, in Sonoma County. \nThe Living Room welcomes homeless and at-risk women and their children into a warm and safe environment during the day when overnight shelters are closed. Caring staff and volunteers offer a lifeline during a time of crisis. Whether homeless for some time\, newly homeless\, or on the verge homelessness\, women of all ages and mothers with children are greeted with love and understanding. Mother’s appreciate the child-friendly environment where they receive support while their children engage with toys and learning activities.
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LOCATION:Vanguard Properties\, 6790 McKinley St #120\, Sebastopol\, CA\, 95472\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20161201T190000
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SUMMARY:Book Group: Apple: a global history\, by Erika Janik
DESCRIPTION:The Slow Food Russian River Book Group will be discussing the book Apple: a global history (Reaktion Books\, 2011) by Erika Janik on Thursday\, December 1\, 2016. \nIf you have questions about the curious pollination of apple trees this Factsheet from the Ontario Ministry of Agriculture\, Food and Rural Affairs will give you some good  information: Crabapple Pollenizers for Apples. \nTo RSVP email the Book Group at sfrrbookgroup@gmail.com.  The Book Group is open to anyone who can read\, loves cooking a dish\, and likes a good conversation. \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. \nTable of Contents\nIntroduction \n1. From Almaty to America\n2. Food of Legend\n3. Cider\n4. Wholesome Apple\n5. Global Apple \nPicking the Perfect Apple\nRecipes\nSelect Bibliography\nWebsites and Associations\nAcknowledgements\nPhoto Acknowledgements\nIndex \nSummary of Apple: a global history\nGravenstein. Coe’s Golden Drop. Mendocino Cox. The names sound like something from the imagination of Tolkien or perhaps the ingredients in a dubious magical potion rather than what they are—varieties of apples. But as befits their enchanting names\, apples have transfixed and beguiled humans for thousands of years. \nApple: A Global History explores the cultural and culinary importance of a fruit born in the mountains of Kazakhstan that has since traversed the globe to become a favorite almost everywhere. From the Garden of Eden and Homer’s Odyssey to Johnny Appleseed\, William Tell\, and even Apple Computer\, Erika Janik shows how apples have become a universal source of sustenance\, health\, and symbolism from ancient times to the present day. \nFeaturing many mouthwatering illustrations\, this exploration of the planet’s most popular fruit includes a guide to selecting the best apples\, in addition to apple recipes from around the world\, including what is believed to be the first recorded apple recipe from Roman gourmand Marcus Apicius. And Janik doesn’t let us forget that apples are not just good eating; their juice also makes for good drinking—as the history of cider in North America and Europe attests. \nJanik grew up surrounded by apple iconography in Washington\, the “apple state\,” so there is no better author to tell this fascinating story. Readers will eat up this surprising and entertaining tale of a fruit intricately linked to human history. \nGoodreads Reviews\n“Edible books try to cover nearly every aspect of a food in about 100 pages. Some are more successful than others. Janik tries\, but there’s simply too much information about apples to get anything like decent coverage in so few pages. But it’s still a fairly interesting read\, and especially suited for those who aren’t going to be bothered by how briefly nearly every topic is covered.”\n\n\n“What’s a hungry writer wannabie to do? Write on spec. This is the opposite of The New Book of Apples: The Definitive Guide to Over 2\,000 Varieties. Some information. Some legend. And some recipes to fill up the space between the covers.” \n\n\n\nBibliographic Information\n\nAuthor Janik\, Erika\nTitle Apple : a global history / Erika Janik\nImprint London : Reaktion Books\, 2011 \nDescript 132 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 21 cm\nSeries Edible\nContents From Almaty to America — Food of legend — Cider — Wholesome apple — Global apple — Picking the perfect apple\nNote Includes bibliographical references and index\nSummary Includes a selection of recipes\nSubject Apples — History\nCooking (Apples)\nCider — History\nCooking (Dates)\nISBN 9781861898487\n1861898487
URL:https://www.oldsf.bmkt.net/event/book-group-apple-global-history/
LOCATION:Private Home in Sebastopol\, Address with RSVP\, Sebastopol\, CA\, 95472\, United States
CATEGORIES:Book Group
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20161103T190000
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SUMMARY:Book Group: The True History of Chocolate\, by by Sophie D. Coe and Michael D. Coe
DESCRIPTION:The Slow Food Russian River Book Group will be discussing the book The True History of Chocolate (Thames & Hudson\, 3rd edition\, 2013) by Sophie D. Coe and Michael D. Coe on Thursday\, November 3. \nTo RSVP email the Book Group at sfrrbookgroup@gmail.com.  The Book Group is open to anyone who can read\, loves cooking a dish\, and likes a good conversation. \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\nYou don’t need to be a member of Slow Food\, although – of course – we hope that with time you will become one. \nSummary \nWhen the Spanish conquistadors first time put his lips to a cup of Aztec chocolate had the bitter beans already been used by people for over two and a half millennia\, as a beverage in including the ceremonial context and in recent times also as currency. Chocolate as we know it – sweetened and solid form – has just been the norm for over a hundred and fifty years. Before then drank it hot or cold\, without sugar but seasoned with all sorts of spices – from chilli and black pepper\, vanilla and nutmeg.\nLinnaeus gave the plant the name Theobroma cacao – “Gudaspisen”\, and for a long time was the drink reserved for nobles in Europe hoof. There were a variety of very different theories in circulation about chocolate’s effects on health\, and the book gives us some examples of how to have mixed his chocolate during different stages of the story. \nThe authors Sophie D. Coe and Michael D. Coe has endeavored to tell such a “true” story as possible\, and this means not only correct treatment of the earliest sources. To tell you the history of chocolate\, they both botany and archeology as the science of language. We get a glimpse of how chocolate is grown and cultivated today\, and in the background to the name – with a brief insight into the fascinating story of how to solve the mystery of Mayan hieroglyphs.\nSince it was first published in English for the twelve years ago\, Chocolate – a true story has been the historical standard piece of chocolate. http://www.agerings.se/ARTIKLAR/19010.html \n“Consistently exceptionally interesting.” \n– Washington Post \n“A pleasure\, not only for ‘chocoholics’ but for all who appreciate living and thorough detective work in book form.” \n– Gourmet \n“A real treat.” \n– New York Review of Books
URL:https://www.oldsf.bmkt.net/event/book-group-the-true-history-of-chocolate/
LOCATION:Private Home in Sebastopol\, Address with RSVP\, Sebastopol\, CA\, 95472\, United States
CATEGORIES:Book Group
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20161029T090000
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SUMMARY:Sebastopol Community Apple Press 2016 Season
DESCRIPTION:Reserve the Sebastopol Community Apple Press for the 2016 Season\nSign up to use the Sebastopol Community Apple Press for the 2016 season to press your apples into great tasting juice. \nAt the Sebastopol Community Apple Press\, Slow Food volunteers create a safe and fun environment where you can press your apples and drink the juice at the source or bottle it to take home.  \nFor the 2016 season the Community Apple Press is open on most weekends from August till October. If you wish to volunteer at the Press please sign up here. Volunteering is the way to go to participate in the local food movement. \nSome folks bring apples from their own backyard trees\, while others buy apples from one of our local apple growers. \nWhat Locally Grown Apples are Good for Juicing?\nThe Sonoma County Apple Season starts mid to late July with the Gravenstein Apple. This is a versatile apple that is eaten fresh\, or used in baking and cooking. Or\, as you will do at the Community Apple Press\, it is pressed into delicious apple juice\, to be enjoyed fresh or fermented into hard cider. \nThe Gravenstein has a short growing season and does not keep well. It is is a triploid (has 3 sets of chromosomes in the nucleus):it requires pollination from other trees\, and is a poor pollinator of other apples.  Apples in general do not breed true when planted as seeds and grafting is generally used to produce new apple trees. \nOther local apples fit for juicing include Baldwin (also known as ‘Calville Butter’\, ‘Felch’\, ‘Late Baldwin’\, ‘Pecker’\, ‘Red Baldwin’s Pippin’\, ‘Steele’s Red Winter’\, and ‘Woodpecker’) \nAlso the Blacktwig\, Golden Supreme\, Honeycrisp\, Jonagold\, Jonathan\, McIntosh (the official apple of Canada)\, Northern Spy\, Cripps Pink \nThen there are the Pink Pearl (developed in 1944 by Albert Etter\, a Garberville breeder)\, Rhode Island Greening (an old\, historic American apple variety and the official fruit of the state of Rhode Island). \nOr Rome Beauty\, Stayman Winesap (like the Gravenstein a triploid apple cultivar)\, and Winesap. \nAsk for these apples at grower stands and on our farmers market. Some grocery stores may also carry local apples\, including Oliver’s Markets\, Community Market\, Andy’s Market\, Whole Foods. \nOr check out these local stores: Bill’s Farm Basket\, and Fiesta (Pacific Market).
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LOCATION:Luther Burbank’s Gold Ridge Experiment Farm\, 7777 Bodega Ave\, Sebastopol\, CA\, 95472\, United States
CATEGORIES:Apple Core Event
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20161021T170000
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SUMMARY:Open House — Slow Salon\, Friday\, October 21\, 2016
DESCRIPTION:Our October 2016 Open House\, the Slow Food Russian River Slow Salon\, is a convivial get-together for Slow Food members + their guests. Please bring a beverage and an appetizer or dessert. FREE or make a small donation. \n \nHear from Slow Food Leaders about upcoming events and ongoing projects and see how you can plug in. Hear from other leaders in the local food system.  Ask your questions and provide your ideas for projects and events the chapter may take on. Sign up to volunteer or step up with an initiative. \nTo become a Slow Food member click here. To check your membership status click on the link “update subscription preferences” at the bottom of the latest email message you received from Slow Food Russian River. \nTheme of the the October 2016 Open House\nTheme of the the October 2016 Open House is “Post Terra Madre”. What did we learn? What does it imply for the North Bay? Delegates will present. \nWe got an award for our 10\,000 Gardens in Africa work that came with a proclamation and with four food items from Africa that we can use in some foods for the Open House. The event is free (with donation opportunity)\, potluck\, and for current Slow Food members. \nWe also will be also talking about an 2017 event\, Slow Food Nations event in Denver\, July 14-16\, 2017\, a Terra Madre Salone del Gusto for the USA.  \nhttps://www.slowfoodusa.org/slow-food-nations \nCalifornia is in a great position to have a large presence there in various categories\, such as Slow Cheese\, Slow Meat\, Slow Beer\, Slow Wine\, Slow Cider\, and Ark of Taste. Let’s develop some ideas about this at our convivial get-together. \nFood Offerings at the Fall 2016 Open House
URL:https://www.oldsf.bmkt.net/event/open-house-slow-salon-friday-october-21-2016/
LOCATION:Private Home in Sebastopol\, Address with RSVP\, Sebastopol\, CA\, 95472\, United States
CATEGORIES:Open House—Slow Salon
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20161006T190000
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SUMMARY:Book Group: Best Food Writing 2014\, edited by Holly Hughes
DESCRIPTION:The Slow Food Russian River Book Group will be discussing essays from the book Best Food Writing 2014 (Da Capo Life Long\, a member of the Perseus Books Group\, 2014)\, edited by Holly Hughes on Thursday\, October 6. \nThis book can be had for $4 from an Amazon reseller (incl. shipping and handling).  It may also be available in public libraries. \nTo RSVP email the Book Group at sfrrbookgroup@gmail.com.  The Book Group is open to anyone who can read\, loves cooking a dish\, and likes a good conversation. \nFor this session\, Book Group members need to select three essays\, from those not yet chosen by other group members\, for which you will be responsible: read them\, be able to summarize them at the session\, and have a leading question for the essay. \nWith RSVP you will receive a link to a google spreadsheet where you can register your choice. To RSVP email the Book Group at sfrrbookgroup@gmail.com. \nThe Book Group meets the first Thursday of the month\, 7 – 9pm. It’s a convivial dinner. Please bring a dish for four and a beverage. \nMembership\nYou don’t need to be a member of Slow Food\, although – of course – we hope that with time you will become one. Location for this session in Rohnert Park with RSVP. Otherwise we meet in Sebastopol. \nBest Food Writing 2014 on Goodreads\nFor fourteen years\, Best Food Writing has served up the creme de la creme of the year’s food writing. The 2014 edition once again offers the tastiest prose of the year\, from a range of voices: food writing stars\, James Beard Award winners\, writer-chefs\, bestselling authors\, and up-and-coming bloggers alike. With new sections devoted to “A Table for Everyone” and “Back to Basics\,” you’ll find a topic and a flavor for every appetite—the cutting-edge\, the thoughtful\, the provocative\, and the hilarious—a smorgasbord of treats for the foodie in all of us. \n(Goodreads\, with 400+ readers reflections) \nOther Reviews\nJane Smiley’s review on New World Reviews. \n\nTable of Contents of Best Food Writing 2014\nTHE WAY WE EAT NOW\nAge of innocence\, Saveur\, 2013 / Jay Rayner \nAre big flavors\, destroying the American palate?\, Food and Wine\, April 2014/ Kate Krader \nA toast story\, P:acific Standard\, Jan. 2014/ John Gravois \nFive things I will not eat\, Civil Eats\, 2013 / Barry Estabrook \nBaconomics 101\, Chapter from The Tastemakers/ David Sax \nThe right to eat\, Alimentum. The Literature of Food/ JT Torres \nA TABLE FOR EVERYONE\nAmerica\, your food is so gay\, Lucky Peach / John Birdsall \nDebts of pleasure\, Oxford American / John T. Edge \nThe dignity of chocolate\, Edible Vancouver / Eagranie Yuh \nThe indulgence of pickled baloney\, Gravy\, Southern Foodways Alliance/ Silas House \nAusterity measures\, SF Weekly / Anna Roth \nWaiting for the 8th\, Washington Post/ Eli Saslow \nBACK TO BASICS\nA sorta of chicken that we call fish / Elissa Altman \nForget the clock\, remember your food\, from Eat Your Vegetables: Bold Recipes for the Single Cook / Joe Yonan \nMeals from a hunter / Steve Hoffman \nThe man machine\, Fool #5 / Oliver Strand \nCooking as the cornerstone of a sustainable food system\, Civil Eats 2013 / Kim O’Donnel \nHow to boil water\, Eat the Love 2014 / Irvin Lin \nThe lions of Bangkok street food\,  Roads and Kingdoms\, 2013/ Matt Goulding \nHow to cook a turkey\, The Dinner Files\, Nov 24\, 2013 / Molly Watson \nHOME COOKING\nAnd baby makes free-for-all\, bon appétit/ Adam Sachs (The Obsessivore) \nSense of self\, Food Thinkers by Breville / Erin Byers Murray \nThe ghosts of cakes past\, Monica Bhide | Recipes\, Stories\, Inspiration/ Monica Bhide \nBread and women\, The New Yorker / Adam Gopnik \nThe science of the best chocolate chip cookies\, The Food Lab / J. Kenji López-Alt \nHow to cook chicken cutlets\, and give yourself a reason to keep living\, Deadspin / Albert Burneko \nSmelted\, Full Grown People / Sara Bir \nSTOCKING THE PANTRY\nA green movement\, Dark Rye Magazine / Jane Black \nThe 16.9 carrot\, excerpt from his book The Third Plate / Dan Barber \nMonsanto is going organic in a quest for the perfect veggie\, Wired Mag / Ben Paynter \nKevin Scheuring. The Flavor Man\, Edible Cleveland / Laura Taxel \nYellow Dutch / Rich Nichols \nThe forgotten harvest\, Garden & Gun / Jack Hitt \nSOMEONE’S IN THE KITCHEN\nThe leading light of pastry\, Food & Wine / Alex Halberstadt \nCheapskates\, Edible San Francisco / Sarah Henry \nSherry Yard’s sweet independence\, LA Weekly / Besha Rodell \nA day on Long Island with Alex Lee\, Lucky Peach / Francis Lam \nSavoring the now\, The Atlanta Journal-Constitution / John Kessler \nThe tao of Bianco\, Edible Baja Arizona Magazine / Dave Mondy \nPERSONAL TASTES\nFamiliarity breeds content\, NY Times / Frank Bruni \nEveryman’s fish\, Saveur / Tom Carson \nThe cheese toast incident\, Food for the Thoughtless / Michael Procopio \nBecause I Can: Homemade Ketchup\, Leite’s Culinaria / David Leite \nSolitary man\, Saveur / Josh Ozersky \nTomato pie\, Tin House / Ann Hood \nEXTREME EATING\nThe Invasivore’s dilemma\, Outside Online / Rowan Jacobsen \nLearning how to taste\, Chapter 6 from Edible: An Adventure Into the World of Eating Insects and the Last Great Hope to Save the Planet / Daniella Martin \nSeven bald men and a kumquat tree\, Gastronomica / Amy Gentry \nFixed menu\, Lucky Peach / Kevin Pang \nLast meals\, Lapham’s Quarterly / Brent Cunningham \n  \nAbout the Editor of Best Food Writing 2014\n“Are you the same Holly Hughes who –– ?” \n“Well\, there are many Holly Hugheses around . . . I am only some of them. Click the links to the left to learn about the various things I do.”   The true Holly Hughes\, food writer. \nMore by Holly Hughes\nBesides the Best Food Writing series we discovered this essay by Holly Hughes\, Luxury\, in: Alone in the Kitchen with an Eggplant‚ Riverhead Books‚ 2008\, edited by Jenni Ferrari-Adler. \n  \n  \nBook Group at the May 5 session on The End of Overeating \n  \n 
URL:https://www.oldsf.bmkt.net/event/book-group-best-food-writing-2014/
LOCATION:Private Home in Sebastopol\, Address with RSVP\, Sebastopol\, CA\, 95472\, United States
CATEGORIES:Book Group
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SUMMARY:Celebrate Life on a Slow Day in Apple Country
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″ width=”1/1″ tablet_text_alignment=”default” phone_text_alignment=”default”][vc_column_text]\nCelebrate Life on a Slow Day in Apple Country\nSlow Food Russian River invites you to a slow day in apple country. Enjoy our Apple Country lifestyle. \nSeptember 10\, 10am – 2pm\nLuther Burbank Experiment Farm & Devoto Orchards\nSebastopol\, CA \nProceeds of this event will fund trips for low-income school children to our Community Apple Press. \n \n• Press your own apple juice. Savor the luxurious smell of fresh apples as you press your own juice at the Slow Food Community Apple Press at the historic Luther Burbank Experiment Farm. \n• Taste artisan hard ciders and learn from the cider makers. Travel a short distance from Luther Burbank Experiment Farm to Devoto Orchards\, one of the most beautiful and biodiverse apple farms in Sonoma County. Learn about hard cider with Jolie Devoto-Wade of Golden State Cider Co. and Ellen Cavalli of Tilted Shed Ciderworks. \n• Savor a locally-sourced Farm-to-Table Lunch made with the bounty of local farms prepared by one of Sonoma County’s favorite chefs\, Matt Fidler (gluten free and vegetarian options at checkout). \nRemember Lucy’s on the plaza? Remember how good the food was? Matt Fidler was one of the chefs at the heart of Lucy’s. \nThe menu includes: \n• Mesquite and Applewood Roasted Porchetta featuring pork grown in Sonoma County\n• Roasted apples and spiced pears\n• Mixed grilled vegetables\, including the great thrill of life – torpedo onions\n• Fresh herbed corn spoon bread\n• Heirloom tomato\, cuke\, and bean Panzanella\n• The truly fabulous and amazing apple crisp by Dominique’s Sweets\, with ice cream \n• Take a walking tour of the farm in the dappled shade of Devoto Orchards led by farmer\, Jolie Devoto-Wade.[/vc_column_text][vc_column_text]\nOur Cidermakers\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″ width=”1/3″ tablet_text_alignment=”default” phone_text_alignment=”default”][vc_column_text][/vc_column_text][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″ width=”2/3″ tablet_text_alignment=”default” phone_text_alignment=”default”][vc_column_text]\nEllen Cavalli and Scott Heath\nWe started Tilted Shed Ciderworks in 2011 out of an obsessive love for cider. \nAll of our apples are organically grown within 35 miles of our cidery\, primarily in west Sonoma County.  At our Sebastopol farm\, we have planted 100 varieties of traditional cider apples and perry pears—a pomological research station on the edge of the Pacific. \nAs cider evangelists\, we are devoted to making ciders of individuality\, integrity\, artistry\, and elegance. It’s thrilling to explore our unique terroir and the transformative powers of fermentation\, and experience how our ciders shapeshift over time. 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These small batches soon became a full time job and Devoto Orchard’s Estate Cider was born. \nTwo short years later\, the farm could no longer supply enough apples to sustain the growing demand for their cider\, so we scoured the entire west coast for top quality fruit. \nOur deep love for crisp apples\, craft beverages\, and the outdoors\, inspired them to create a new canned craft cider born from the ideals and lifestyle of the pacific coast. And so\, Golden State Cider was born.[/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″ width=”1/1″ tablet_text_alignment=”default” phone_text_alignment=”default”][vc_column_text]\nOur Funded Project\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″ width=”1/3″ tablet_text_alignment=”default” phone_text_alignment=”default”][vc_column_text][/vc_column_text][vc_video link=”https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eXJjeCVNyQE”][/vc_column][vc_column column_padding=”no-extra-padding” column_padding_position=”all” background_color_opacity=”1″ background_hover_color_opacity=”1″ width=”2/3″ tablet_text_alignment=”default” phone_text_alignment=”default”][vc_column_text]\nSlow Food Russian River brings school classes to the Community Apple Press at the Luther Burbank Gold Ridge Experiment Farm in Sebastopol. Many of these school children have never visited a farm or worked together to create an edible product. \nThe cost of bringing one class of 30-35 children to the press is about $400. \nIncluded in the ticket price for this event is a donation with which we pay \n• for busses so school classes can come juice at the press\n• for the apples supplied by local farmers\n• for containers so they can bring juice home for their family \n[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row]
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LOCATION:Luther Burbank’s Gold Ridge Experiment Farm\, 7777 Bodega Ave\, Sebastopol\, CA\, 95472\, United States
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DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20160901T210000
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SUMMARY:Book Group: Poor Man's Feast\, by Elissa Altman
DESCRIPTION:The Slow Food Russian River Book Group will be discussing the book Poor Man’s Feast: A Love Story of Comfort\, Desire\, and the Art of Simple Cooking (Chronicle Books\, 2013) by Elissa Altman. \nTo RSVP email the Book Group at sfrrbookgroup@gmail.com.  The Slow Food Russian River Book Group is open to anyone who can read\, loves cooking a dish\, and likes a good conversation. You don’t need to be a member of Slow Food\, although – of course – we hope that with time you will become one. Location in Sebastopol with RSVP. \nThe Book Group meets the first Thursday of the month\, 7 – 9pm. It’s a convivial dinner. Please bring a dish for four and a beverage. \n*** \nPoor Man’s Feast on Goodreads\nFrom James Beard Award-winning writer Elissa Altman comes a story that marries wit to warmth\, and flavor to passion. Born and raised in New York to a food-phobic mother and food-fanatical father\, Elissa was trained early on that fancy is always best. After a childhood spent dining everywhere from Le Pavillion to La Grenouille\, she devoted her life to all things gastronomical\, from the rare game birds she served at elaborate dinner parties in an apartment so tiny that guests couldn’t turn around to the eight timbale molds she bought while working at Dean & DeLuca\, just so she could make tall food. \nWhen Elissa met Susan…\nBut love does strange things to people\, and when Elissa met Susan — a small-town Connecticut Yankee with parsimonious tendencies and a devotion to simple living — it would change Elissa’s relationship with food\, and the people who taught her about it\, forever. With tender and often hilarious honesty (and 27 delicious recipes)\, Poor Man’s Feast is a universal tale of finding sustenance and peace in a world of excess and inauthenticity\, and shows us how all our stories are inextricably bound up with what\, and how\, we feed ourselves and those we love. (less) \n(Goodreads\, with 1500+ readers reflections) \nTable of Contents of Poor Man’s Feast\nPrologue p. 8 \nPart I\nChapter 1 Bread and Cheese p. 13\nChapter 2 Executed Chicken p. 29\nChapter 3 Tall Food p. 40\nChapter 4 Sing Along with Mitch p. 47\nChapter 5 Brunch with Mrs. Eisenberg p. 52\nChapter 6 Mornay p. 60\nChapter 7 Mother Sauces p. 67\nChapter 8 Calling p. 75\nChapter 9 The Family Baby p. 83\nChapter 10 Arnaud p. 90\nChapter 11 Cast-Iron Stomach p. 100\nChapter 12 In Susan’s Kitchen p. 108\nChapter 13 The Tree p. 120\nChapter 14 Christmas Dinner p. 133 \nPart II\nChapter 15 Famous p. 142\nChapter 16 Diet White p. 148\nChapter 17 Fish p. 156\nChapter 18 The Guy on the Cross p. 164\nChapter 19 Party p. 173\nChapter 20 Cheese Food p. 181\nChapter 21 Farmers’ Market p. 187\nChapter 22 Foraging p. 197 \nPart III\nChapter 23 Bitten in the Garden p. 206\nChapter 24 The Land of Lost Contentment p. 218\nChapter 25 Craving p. 225\nChapter 26 The Heat p. 235\nChapter 27 Summer Birthdays p. 246\nChapter 28 Merging p. 259\nChapter 29 Italy p. 267\nChapter 30 After the Storm p. 279 \nRecipe Index p. 285\nAcknowledgments p. 286 \nAbout the Author of Poor Man’s Feast\nElissa Altman writes Poor Man’s Feast\, winner of the 2012 James Beard Award for Individual Food Blog. A food and cookbook editor as well as writer\, her work has appeared in Saveur\, the New York Times\, Gilt Taste\, the Huffington Post\, and has twice been selected for inclusion in Best Food Writing. She lives in Conneticut with Susan Turner and a small herd of animals. \nInterview with the Author of Poor Man’s Feast\nAn Interview with Elissa Altman\, Food Blogger and Author of Poor Man’s Feast by Claire Stanford\, Posted in Books & Media\, Out & About on Wed\, 03/20/2013. \n“[W]hen I started Poor Man’s Feast in 2008\, it was my goal to create a narrative about the way we feed ourselves and others in our homes\, in our lives\, in our collective past. I wanted to talk about simple food as the thing that brings us together as people\, rather than divides us.” \n\nMore by Elissa Altman\nPoor Man’s Feast\, a blog. \nBig food : amazing ways to cook\, store\, freeze\, and serve everything you buy in bulk. (Emmaus\, PA : Rodale\, 2005) \nContents Taking stock: big food shopping advice — The basics: how to make everyday essentials go the distance — Big food stocks and soups — Big food salads — In the beginning: big food on appetizers and other small dishes — Brain food: big food on fish — Into the henhouse: big food on poultry — The big beef: big food on beef (and lamb) — In a pig’s eye: big food on pork — Big food on wine — How long will it last? Maximum freezer life chart.\nNote Includes index. \nSummary Explains how shoppers can make the most of the cost-saving benefits of buying foods in bulk by offering taste-tempting tips on food storage\, meal planning\, shopping\, and 125 recipes for cooking creatively. \nInfrequent potatoes. In: Best food writing 2015 / edited by Holly Hughes (Boston\, MA : Da Capo Life Long\, 2015) \nA sort of chicken that we call fish. In: Best food writing 2014 / edited by Holly Hughes (Boston\, MA : Da Capo Life Long\, 2014) \nIn Susan’s Kitchen. In: Best food writing 2013 / edited by Holly Hughes (Boston\, MA : Da Capo Life Long\, 2013) \nAngry breakfast eggs. In: Best food writing 2012 / edited by Holly Hughes. (Boston\, MA : Da Capo Life Long\, 2012) \nCraving the food of depravity\, from PoorMansFeast.com In: Best food writing 2011 / edited by Holly Hughes (Boston\, MA : Da Capo Life Long\, 2011) \nElissa Altman on Huffington Post \n  \nReviews \nFood Chronicle ‘Poor Man’s Feast\,’ by Elissa Altman\, and More\, by Dawn Drzalmay. New York Times\, May 29\, 2013 \nThe Last Word: Poor Man’s Feast by Elissa Altman\, by Kurt Michael Friese. Civileats on February 25\, 2013 \nLove the One You’re (Eating) With: a Review of ‘Poor Man’s Feast’. March 4 2013\, by Amanda Bloom. \nReview by Sally D. Ketchum in New York Journal of Books \nReview from thebookselfblog \n  \n  \n  \nBook Group at the May 5 session on The End of Overeating
URL:https://www.oldsf.bmkt.net/event/book-group-poor-mans-feast/
LOCATION:Private Home in Sebastopol\, Address with RSVP\, Sebastopol\, CA\, 95472\, United States
CATEGORIES:Book Group
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20160807T100000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20160807T143000
DTSTAMP:20260513T084718
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SUMMARY:Apple Press at the Sebastopol Farmers Market
DESCRIPTION:The Apple Press is coming to the Sebastopol Farmers Market\nSlow Food Russian River will bring the Apple Press at the Sebastopol Farmers Market and serve free samples of Gravenstein Apple juice. Yea! \nWe invite you to taste freshly pressed\, luscious apple juice. Drop by and say hi! \nSebastopol Farmers Market’s Honor the Gravenstein Apple Celebration\nDominique Cortara\nSlow Food Russian River’s own Dominique Cortara will be making her famous Gravenstein Apple Pies for this Sunday’s Market.    \nHave a piece and if you want to take home an entire pie for yourself you can order one by emailing dominique@dominiquesweets.com. \nDominique is the owner of Dominique’s Sweets. She says that her mission is to provide an out of this world experience to her customers when they bite into beautiful\, affordable and wholesome products\, made by hand and from local ingredients. \nDominique’s Sweets supports our community\, our local farmers and our local producers so we can become economically independent as we follow our dreams. Her apple pies fit our Apple Press at the Sebastopol Farmers Market beautifully. \nDon’t miss Paula Downing’s interview with Dominique. Paula is the semi-retired market manager at the Sebastopol Farmers Market. We recommend you like the market on Facebook. \n*Why do we call her “our own”? As a local chef with deep roots in the farming community\, Dominique is super supportive of the Slow Food vision. She has been on the Board of Slow Food Russian River and lent her cooking genius to numerous events of Slow Food Russian River\, such as the two strawberry events\, Strawberry Feast Forever and Strawberry Feasts at Glen Oak Ranch. \nMichele Anna Jordan\nMichele Anna Jordan is our guest chef. Taste something delectable made from our beloved Gravensteins. \nWe love Michele. She is a wealth of knowledge about cooking which she shares generously. Come and enjoy this day of food pleasure. \nMichele is a writer\, a chef\, and a radio personality. She has written more than twenty books and contributed to more than a dozen others\, including anthologies\, collections\, and colleagues’ books. \nMichele’s radio show is Mouthful – Smart Talk About Food\, Wine & Farming in the North Bay and Beyond – KRCB 90.9 & 91.1 FM \nMouthful launched on November 2\, 1995\, as a one-hour talk show on KRCB FM\, then in its infancy. The program is now in its 21st year and has received four James Beard Nominations for Electronic Journalism. \nCyrelle McDonald\nKids LOVE Cyrelle McDonald.  She will teach your kids how to make something very good with apples.   This is a free class. \nCyrelle is the owner of Wholesome Creations. A graduate from Bauman Holistic Nutrition & Natural Chef College\, she has been a Personal Chef for over 5 years. It is her passion to provide adults and children with healthy ways to eat and prepare foods. \n\n \n\nFor the kids\nIn addition\, there is balloon twisting\, face painting\, a petting zoo and pony rides galore. \nApple Raffle in honor of the Apple Press at the Sebastopol Farmers Market\nYou can also enter to win special prizes donated by vendors at the market\, such as lunch with Green Grocer. Also\, tomatoes from The Patch from Sonoma\,operated by Lazaro Calderon\, and peaches from Twin Peaks Orchards. \n 
URL:https://www.oldsf.bmkt.net/event/apple-press-sebastopol-farmers-market/
LOCATION:Sebastopol Farmers Market
CATEGORIES:Apple Core Event
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20160806T090000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20160806T150000
DTSTAMP:20260513T084718
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SUMMARY:Sebastopol Community Apple Press 2016 Season
DESCRIPTION:Reserve the Sebastopol Community Apple Press for the 2016 Season\nSign up to use the Sebastopol Community Apple Press for the 2016 season to press your apples into great tasting juice. \nAt the Sebastopol Community Apple Press\, Slow Food volunteers create a safe and fun environment where you can press your apples and drink the juice at the source or bottle it to take home.  \nFor the 2016 season the Community Apple Press is open on most weekends from August till October. If you wish to volunteer at the Press please sign up here. Volunteering is the way to go to participate in the local food movement. \nSome folks bring apples from their own backyard trees\, while others buy apples from one of our local apple growers. \nWhat Locally Grown Apples are Good for Juicing?\nThe Sonoma County Apple Season starts mid to late July with the Gravenstein Apple. This is a versatile apple that is eaten fresh\, or used in baking and cooking. Or\, as you will do at the Community Apple Press\, it is pressed into delicious apple juice\, to be enjoyed fresh or fermented into hard cider. \nThe Gravenstein has a short growing season and does not keep well. It is is a triploid (has 3 sets of chromosomes in the nucleus):it requires pollination from other trees\, and is a poor pollinator of other apples.  Apples in general do not breed true when planted as seeds and grafting is generally used to produce new apple trees. \nOther local apples fit for juicing include Baldwin (also known as ‘Calville Butter’\, ‘Felch’\, ‘Late Baldwin’\, ‘Pecker’\, ‘Red Baldwin’s Pippin’\, ‘Steele’s Red Winter’\, and ‘Woodpecker’) \nAlso the Blacktwig\, Golden Supreme\, Honeycrisp\, Jonagold\, Jonathan\, McIntosh (the official apple of Canada)\, Northern Spy\, Cripps Pink \nThen there are the Pink Pearl (developed in 1944 by Albert Etter\, a Garberville breeder)\, Rhode Island Greening (an old\, historic American apple variety and the official fruit of the state of Rhode Island). \nOr Rome Beauty\, Stayman Winesap (like the Gravenstein a triploid apple cultivar)\, and Winesap. \nAsk for these apples at grower stands and on our farmers market. Some grocery stores may also carry local apples\, including Oliver’s Markets\, Community Market\, Andy’s Market\, Whole Foods. \nOr check out these local stores: Bill’s Farm Basket\, and Fiesta (Pacific Market).
URL:https://www.oldsf.bmkt.net/event/sebastopol-community-apple-press-2016-season/
LOCATION:Luther Burbank’s Gold Ridge Experiment Farm\, 7777 Bodega Ave\, Sebastopol\, CA\, 95472\, United States
CATEGORIES:Apple Core Event
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