BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//Slow Food Russian River - ECPv6.16.1//NONSGML v1.0//EN CALSCALE:GREGORIAN METHOD:PUBLISH X-ORIGINAL-URL:https://www.oldsf.bmkt.net X-WR-CALDESC:Events for Slow Food Russian River REFRESH-INTERVAL;VALUE=DURATION:PT1H X-Robots-Tag:noindex X-PUBLISHED-TTL:PT1H BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:America/Los_Angeles BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0800 TZOFFSETTO:-0700 TZNAME:PDT DTSTART:20140309T100000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0700 TZOFFSETTO:-0800 TZNAME:PST DTSTART:20141102T090000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0800 TZOFFSETTO:-0700 TZNAME:PDT DTSTART:20150308T100000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0700 TZOFFSETTO:-0800 TZNAME:PST DTSTART:20151101T090000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0800 TZOFFSETTO:-0700 TZNAME:PDT DTSTART:20160313T100000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0700 TZOFFSETTO:-0800 TZNAME:PST DTSTART:20161106T090000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0800 TZOFFSETTO:-0700 TZNAME:PDT DTSTART:20170312T100000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0700 TZOFFSETTO:-0800 TZNAME:PST DTSTART:20171105T090000 END:STANDARD END:VTIMEZONE BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20161211T150000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20161211T180000 DTSTAMP:20260513T103143 CREATED:20161106T150809Z LAST-MODIFIED:20161113T203852Z UID:4802-1481468400-1481479200@www.oldsf.bmkt.net 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. URL:https://www.oldsf.bmkt.net/event/2016-holiday-party/ LOCATION:Vanguard Properties\, 6790 McKinley St #120\, Sebastopol\, CA\, 95472\, United States ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://www.oldsf.bmkt.net/wp/wp-content/uploads/2016/11/slow-food-russian-river-holiday-party.jpg ORGANIZER;CN="Slow Food Russian River":MAILTO:russianriverca@slowfoodusa.org END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20161201T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20161201T210000 DTSTAMP:20260513T103143 CREATED:20161017T010223Z LAST-MODIFIED:20170217T011531Z UID:4706-1480618800-1480626000@www.oldsf.bmkt.net 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 ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://www.oldsf.bmkt.net/wp/wp-content/uploads/2016/10/Apple-a-global-history-Reaktion-Books-2011-by-Erika-Janik.jpg ORGANIZER;CN="Slow Food Russian River Book Group":MAILTO:sfrrbookgroup@gmail.com END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20161103T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20161103T210000 DTSTAMP:20260513T103143 CREATED:20160930T090749Z LAST-MODIFIED:20170217T011647Z UID:4667-1478199600-1478206800@www.oldsf.bmkt.net 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 ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://www.oldsf.bmkt.net/wp/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/Sophie-D.-Coe-and-Michael-D.-Coewithtrue-history-of-chocolate-cover.jpg ORGANIZER;CN="Slow Food Russian River Book Group":MAILTO:sfrrbookgroup@gmail.com END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20161029T090000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20161029T150000 DTSTAMP:20260513T103143 CREATED:20160725T201630Z LAST-MODIFIED:20170805T142057Z UID:4363-1477731600-1477753200@www.oldsf.bmkt.net 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-2016-10-29/ LOCATION:Luther Burbank’s Gold Ridge Experiment Farm\, 7777 Bodega Ave\, Sebastopol\, CA\, 95472\, United States CATEGORIES:Apple Core Event ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://www.oldsf.bmkt.net/wp/wp-content/uploads/2016/07/communityapplepress2016b.jpg ORGANIZER;CN="Slow Food Russian River Apple Core":MAILTO:info@slowfoodrr.org END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20161021T170000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20161021T193000 DTSTAMP:20260513T103143 CREATED:20160917T080629Z LAST-MODIFIED:20161226T222848Z UID:4659-1477069200-1477078200@www.oldsf.bmkt.net 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 ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://www.oldsf.bmkt.net/wp/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/sfrr-open-house-slow-salon-2016.jpg ORGANIZER;CN="Slow Food Russian River":MAILTO:russianriverca@slowfoodusa.org END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20161006T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20161006T210000 DTSTAMP:20260513T103143 CREATED:20160817T054304Z LAST-MODIFIED:20170217T012057Z UID:4437-1475780400-1475787600@www.oldsf.bmkt.net 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 ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://www.oldsf.bmkt.net/wp/wp-content/uploads/2016/08/bestfoodwriting-fi-e1471412515229.jpg ORGANIZER;CN="Slow Food Russian River Book Group":MAILTO:sfrrbookgroup@gmail.com END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20160910T100000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20160910T140000 DTSTAMP:20260513T103143 CREATED:20160813T165503Z LAST-MODIFIED:20160909T042825Z UID:4248-1473501600-1473516000@www.oldsf.bmkt.net 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. We hope you’ll find our ciders to be a beautiful revelation of what the apple can do.[/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]\nJolie Devoto-Wade and Hunter Wade\nOur story begins in 2012 on a small organic apple farm in Northern CA. We moved back to the family farm and started fermenting small batches of cider. 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] URL:https://www.oldsf.bmkt.net/event/slow-day-in-apple-country/ LOCATION:Luther Burbank’s Gold Ridge Experiment Farm\, 7777 Bodega Ave\, Sebastopol\, CA\, 95472\, United States ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://www.oldsf.bmkt.net/wp/wp-content/uploads/2016/07/atthecapcelebrate2block.jpg ORGANIZER;CN="Slow Food Russian River":MAILTO:russianriverca@slowfoodusa.org END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20160901T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20160901T210000 DTSTAMP:20260513T103143 CREATED:20160623T004006Z LAST-MODIFIED:20170217T011143Z UID:4111-1472756400-1472763600@www.oldsf.bmkt.net 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 ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://www.oldsf.bmkt.net/wp/wp-content/uploads/2014/11/poormansfeastwithaltman02.jpg ORGANIZER;CN="Slow Food Russian River Book Group":MAILTO:sfrrbookgroup@gmail.com END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20160807T100000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20160807T143000 DTSTAMP:20260513T103143 CREATED:20160804T193436Z LAST-MODIFIED:20160806T152930Z UID:4424-1470564000-1470580200@www.oldsf.bmkt.net 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 ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://www.oldsf.bmkt.net/wp/wp-content/uploads/2016/08/sebastopol-farmers-marketapplepress.jpg ORGANIZER;CN="Slow Food Russian River Apple Core":MAILTO:info@slowfoodrr.org END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20160806T090000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20160806T150000 DTSTAMP:20260513T103143 CREATED:20160725T201630Z LAST-MODIFIED:20160824T005321Z UID:4263-1470474000-1470495600@www.oldsf.bmkt.net 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 ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://www.oldsf.bmkt.net/wp/wp-content/uploads/2016/07/communityapplepress2016b.jpg ORGANIZER;CN="Slow Food Russian River Apple Core":MAILTO:info@slowfoodrr.org END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20160805T170000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20160805T193000 DTSTAMP:20260513T103143 CREATED:20160702T004826Z LAST-MODIFIED:20160917T081916Z UID:4170-1470416400-1470425400@www.oldsf.bmkt.net SUMMARY:Open House — Slow Salon\, Friday\, August 5\, 2016 DESCRIPTION:Our Open House\, the SFRR August 2016 Slow Salon\, is a convivial get-together for members\, recent members who are considering joining again and prospective members. Please bring a beverage and appetizer or dessert. The event is sliding scale. \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. \nBut above all\, enjoy a lazy\, sunny afternoon with other Slow Food members who are passionate about food and about our movement for good\, clean\, and fair food\, from the local to the global\, and back again. \nThe theme for the gathering is the upcoming Terra Madre Salone del Gusto and the Ark of Taste including our beloved Sebastopol Gravenstein Apple. \n  \n  URL:https://www.oldsf.bmkt.net/event/august-2016-slow-salon/ LOCATION:Lavine’s\, 1610 Watertrough Road\, Sebastopol\, CA\, 95472\, United States CATEGORIES:Open House—Slow Salon ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://www.oldsf.bmkt.net/wp/wp-content/uploads/2016/06/sfCal2015meeting-web.jpg ORGANIZER;CN="Slow Food Russian River":MAILTO:russianriverca@slowfoodusa.org END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20160804T170000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20160804T190000 DTSTAMP:20260513T103143 CREATED:20160804T005857Z LAST-MODIFIED:20160804T005857Z UID:4422-1470330000-1470337200@www.oldsf.bmkt.net SUMMARY:Sebastopol Community Apple Press Kick-Off Party DESCRIPTION:Let’s Have a Apple Press Kick-Off Party\, You Apple Press Lovers!\nJoin people of the City of Sebastopol\, of the Western Sonoma County Historical Society\, members of the Press Corps\, Slow Food folks and other Apple Lovers for a festive opening of the 2016 Slow Food Russian River Apple Pressing Season. It’s the Sebastopol Community Apple Press Kick-Off Party! \nEmail us at SFRR Volunteerism to get an invitation. \nWhen: Thursday\, August 4th from 5-7pm. \nWhere: Luther Burbank Experiment Farm in Sebastopol. The Farm is accessed by car through its neighbor\, Burbank Heights & Orchards at 7777 Bodega Ave. \nWhy: To celebrate the opening of the free Community Apple Press. \nHow: Light food and beverages (including some delicious local hard cider) will be served. We welcome your donation of appetizers or desserts to share but most important is your presence\, so please join us! \nThe Community Apple Press at the Luther Burbank Experiment Farm will run on Saturdays and Sundays of most weekends from 9am to 3pm till the end of October. \nTo reserve the CAPs to press your apples with the help of Slow Food volunteers sign up at https://www.oldsf.bmkt.net/applepress/ \nTo volunteer go to https://www.oldsf.bmkt.net/volunteering-join-apple-core/ \nBackground\nOur  “Apple Core” team operates Community Apple Press every season from August through October at the Farm. \nResidents and visitors can bring apples and make juice using our press for free. \nBased on a thorough Google search\, this is the only community apple press in the United States!  Sebastopol is a special place and we think the CAP makes it even more special. \nWe wouldn’t be able to have the CAP and its unique location at Luther Burbank Farm without the support of the City of Sebastopol and the Historical Society\, so this party allows us to express our appreciation. \nThe apple press will be operating during the party\, so feel free to bring your backyard or locally purchased apples and make your own juice! \nOf course\, our beloved Gravenstein makes the very best juice\, but any fresh apples will work. Bring plastic containers with lids to take the juice home with you or enjoy sharing it at the party. \nParking at the Farm at 7777 Bodega Avenue is limited but there is ample parking a short walk away at St. Stephens on Robinson Road. \n  URL:https://www.oldsf.bmkt.net/event/2016-apple-press-kick-off-party/ LOCATION:Luther Burbank’s Gold Ridge Experiment Farm\, 7777 Bodega Ave\, Sebastopol\, CA\, 95472\, United States ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://www.oldsf.bmkt.net/wp/wp-content/uploads/2016/08/threemenatapplepress.png ORGANIZER;CN="Slow Food Russian River Apple Core":MAILTO:info@slowfoodrr.org END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20160714T180000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20160714T203000 DTSTAMP:20260513T103143 CREATED:20160628T155001Z LAST-MODIFIED:20160628T170607Z UID:4167-1468519200-1468528200@www.oldsf.bmkt.net SUMMARY:Film Night: Open Sesame – The Story of Seeds DESCRIPTION:[vc_row type=”in_container” 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″][vc_column_text]\nSlow Food Russian River Summer Film Night: Open Sesame: The Story of Seeds\nJoin us and our partner the Community Seed Exchange for an evening of film and fun—and meet one of the movie stars. That’s right\, Sara McCamant\, founder and director of Community Seed Exchange\, is one of the stars of the film and will share with us more about the film\, Open Sesame: The Story of Seeds\, and the important mission of her Sebastopol-based organization. (She says she has lots of seeds to share from their seed library of over 200 varieties of locally grown seeds!) \nIn addition\, you’ll get to enjoy pizza and salad (with seeds\, of course) plus complimentary tastings of MacPhail Family Wines and The Kefiry’s delicious probiotic beverages. Both companies will be selling full glasses for your enjoyment. \nWhen: July 14\, 2016   6:00pm to 8:30pm\nWhere: Fireside Room\, Sebastopol Center for the Arts\, 282 S High St\, Sebastopol\, CA 95472 Map\nWhat: Film + seeds + pizza + salad +MacPhail wine and Kefiry tastings – for only $12 per ticket. (All profits split between Slow Food Russian River and Community Seed Exchange.)\nWho: You! And tell your friends\, but don’t delay. We have a limited number of tickets available. \n \nThe Film: Open Sesame – The Story of Seeds\n“I really loved this film. It unlocks the door to the magical\, powerful\, and perilous world of seeds. It will open hearts and minds …” – Claire Hope Cummings\, award winning author of: Uncertain Peril\, Genetic Engineering and the Future of Seeds. \n“A touching and spiritual film that will no doubt encourage discussion about the future of agriculture…” –Yes! Magazine \nOne of the world’s most precious resources is at risk. This timely and emotionally moving film illuminates what is at stake and what can be done to protect the source of nearly all our food: SEEDS. Seeds provide the basis for everything from fabric\, to food to fuels. Seeds are as essential to life as the air we breathe or water we drink…but given far less attention. \nAccording to the FAO (Food and Agriculture Organization of the UN)\, approximately 90 percent of the fruit and vegetable varieties that existed 100 years ago no longer exist today. Heritage grain is near extinction. Seeds that were lovingly nurtured over decades or even hundreds of years have been lost forever. Maintaining seed biodiversity allows us to breed new varieties that are resistant to pests or thrive in temperature extremes. This is essential in a changing climate. \nMeanwhile\, corporations are co-opting seed genetics using patent law. In the past\, seeds were communal. They were a shared resource not unlike the water we drink or the air we breathe. One hundred years ago things started to change. Today\, corporate-owned seed accounts for 82% of the world-wide market. \nIn this film you will meet a diverse range of individuals whose lives center around seeds. Farmers. Renegade gardeners. Passionate seed savers. Artists. Seed activists. This film tells the story of seeds by following their challenges and triumphs as they work to save this precious resource.[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row type=”in_container” 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″][vc_video link=”https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0ipSKXP_7M4″][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row type=”in_container” 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″][image_with_animation image_url=”4169″ alignment=”center” animation=”Fade In” img_link_large=”yes”][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row type=”in_container” 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″][vc_column_text]\nPartners\n[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row type=”in_container” 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=”1/2″][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=”1/2″][vc_column_text][/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row type=”in_container” 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″][vc_column_text]\nSponsors\n[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row type=”in_container” 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=”1/2″][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=”1/2″][vc_column_text][/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row] URL:https://www.oldsf.bmkt.net/event/film-night-open-sesame-the-story-of-seeds/ LOCATION:Sebastopol Center for the Arts\, 282 South High Street\, Sebastopol\, CA\, 95472\, United States CATEGORIES:Film Event ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://www.oldsf.bmkt.net/wp/wp-content/uploads/2016/06/opensesame.jpg ORGANIZER;CN="Slow Food Russian River Film Group":MAILTO:sfrrfilmgroup@gmail.com END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20160602T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20160602T210000 DTSTAMP:20260513T103143 CREATED:20160409T162706Z LAST-MODIFIED:20170217T003855Z UID:3733-1464894000-1464901200@www.oldsf.bmkt.net SUMMARY:Book Group: Four Fish\, by Paul Greenberg DESCRIPTION:The Slow Food Russian River Book Group will be discussing the book Four Fish: The Future of the Last Wild Food (The Penguin Press\, 2010)\, by Paul Greenberg. \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. You don’t need to be a member\, 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*** \nAbout the Author \nPaul Greenberg is the James Beard award-winning author of the New York Times bestseller and Notable Book Four Fish: The Future of the Last Wild Food and American Catch: The Fight for our Local Seafood. A regular contributor to the New York Times’ Opinion Page\, Magazine\, Dining section\, and Book Review\, Greenberg lectures widely on seafood and ocean sustainability. His lecture venues include Google\, the United States Senate\, the United States Supreme Court\, the Monterey Bay Aquarium\, the New England Aquarium\, The Culinary Institute of America\, Harvard University\, Brown University\, Williams College\, Yale University’s Peabody Museum\, Chefs Collaborative National Summit\, SeaWeb’s Seafood Summit\, and Paine & Partners annual shareholders meeting. \nA guest and commentator on public radio programs including Fresh Air\, All Things Considered\, and The Leonard Lopate Show\, Greenberg is also a fiction writer. His 2002 novel\, Leaving Katya\, was a Barnes & Noble Discover Great New Writers selection. In the last five years\, he has been a National Endowment for the Arts Literature Fellow\, a W. K. Kellogg Foundation Food and Society Policy Fellow\, and a writer-in-residence at the Bogliasco Foundation’s Liguria Study Center near Genoa\, Italy. \nIn addition to his fiction and nonfiction writing in the United States\, Greenberg has worked extensively overseas with long-term assignments in Russia\, Ukraine\, France\, the Caucasus\, Bosnia-Herzegovina\, Serbia\, the West Bank/Gaza\, and many other locations around the world. His essays have been published internationally in The Times of London\, The Observer (UK)\, The Age (Australia)\, Süddeutsche Zeitung (Germany) and The Globe and Mail (Canada). Four Fish is forthcoming in Korea\, Taiwan\, Russia\, Greece\, Italy\, Spain\, and Germany. \n  \nGoodreads\nOur relationship with the ocean is undergoing a profound transformation. Whereas just three decades ago nearly everything we ate from the sea was wild\, rampant overfishing combined with an unprecedented bio-tech revolution has brought us to a point where wild and farmed fish occupy equal parts of a complex and confusing marketplace. We stand at the edge of a cataclysm; there is a distinct possibility that our children’s children will never eat a wild fish that has swam freely in the sea. In Four Fish\, award-winning writer and lifelong fisherman Paul Greenberg takes us on a culinary journey\, exploring the history of the fish that dominate our menus—salmon\, sea bass\, cod and tuna-and examining where each stands at this critical moment in time. He visits Norwegian mega farms that use genetic techniques once pioneered on sheep to grow millions of pounds of salmon a year. He travels to the ancestral river of the Yupik Eskimos to see the only Fair Trade certified fishing company in the world. He investigates the way PCBs and mercury find their way into seafood; discovers how Mediterranean sea bass went global; Challenges the author of Cod to taste the difference between a farmed and a wild cod; and almost sinks to the bottom of the South Pacific while searching for an alternative to endangered bluefin tuna. Fish\, Greenberg reveals\, are the last truly wild food – for now. By examining the forces that get fish to our dinner tables\, he shows how we can start to heal the oceans and fight for a world where healthy and sustainable seafood is the rule rather than the exception.  (Goodreads\, with many great readers reflections) \n More by Paul Greenberg\nThe four fish we’re overeating — and what to eat instead. TED Talk\, Oct 2015. \nGenetically Engineered Fish and the Strangeness of American Salmon. New Yorker\, Dec 2\, 2015 \nArticles in the New York Times. \nReviews \n• Book review of Four Fish: The Future of the Last Wild Food. July 18\, 2010|By Richard Eder\, Special to the Los Angeles Times\n“A serious study\, written with wit\, of such matters as the tension between the need to feed our world and to preserve it.” \n• Four Fish by David Helvarg\, Special to The SF Chronicle Published 4:00 am\, Sunday\, July 11\, 2010 \n• Catch of the Day\, by Sam Sifton\, New York Times July 29\, 2010 \n• Book Review: Four Fish: The Future of the Last Wild Food\, by Barry Estabrook Posted on July 20\, 2010 \n• Four Fish\, but for How Long? DEVELOPMENT & SOCIETY : Biodiversity\, Fisheries\, Food Security\, Oceans\, by Mark Notaras United Nations University \n• Face Book Page Four Fish by Paul Greenberg. \n  \nBook Group at the May 5 session on The End of Overeating URL:https://www.oldsf.bmkt.net/event/book-group-four-fish/ LOCATION:Private Home in Sebastopol\, Address with RSVP\, Sebastopol\, CA\, 95472\, United States CATEGORIES:Book Group ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://www.oldsf.bmkt.net/wp/wp-content/uploads/2016/03/FourFishCoverwith-paul.jpg ORGANIZER;CN="Slow Food Russian River Book Group":MAILTO:sfrrbookgroup@gmail.com END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20160521T140000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20160521T190000 DTSTAMP:20260513T103143 CREATED:20160414T035126Z LAST-MODIFIED:20160419T203930Z UID:3917-1463839200-1463857200@www.oldsf.bmkt.net SUMMARY:Strawberry Feasts at Glen Oak Ranch DESCRIPTION:[vc_row type=”in_container” 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″][vc_column_text]\nStrawberry Feasts at Glen Oak Ranch\nNothing provides the taste of early summer better than strawberries. Kick-off this summer\, before the official start of summer\, at the Slow Food Russian River Strawberry Feasts. \nThere are 100+ varietals of strawberries\, but only a few are commercially available. The worldwide Slow Food movement aims to preserve the biodiversity of foodstuffs and to support local farmers. And Slow Food Russian River aims to to do this for our regional treasure\, the Gravenstein apple\, for Heritage Turkeys\, and\, now\, for varietals of strawberries. \nTaste the difference between a number of lesser known\, locally grown varietals and enjoy Sonoma County beverages and delicious strawberry treats\, while learning about the what? and how? of strawberries while relaxing at beautiful Glen Oaks Ranch. \n \nConfirmed chefs include Susan Obuchowski\, Dominique Cortara of Dominique’s Sweets\, Rick Ferrari\, and Amy Thyr. \nConfirmed presenters include Elissa Rubin-Mahon of Artisan Preserves\, and Roanne Kaplow of Wild Garden Farm. \nConfirmed winemakers are Marc Krafft and Rachel Friedman of Orpheus Wines. \nConfirmed poets include Jonah Raskin. \nMore details as this event firms up. But tickets are limited for this popular event. \nGates open: 2pm\nWildlife corridor slideshow: 2:30pm\nHouse tour: 3pm\nStrawberry Feasts Tasting and Presentations: 4pm to 5:30pm\nGuided Hike: 5:30pm\nGates close: 7pm \nThese open days are an opportunity to enjoy a park-like preserve with established hiking trails and picnic areas for visitors. Join in the nature activities\, learn about Sonoma Valley’s Wildlife Corridor\, enjoy local foods\, or picnic and walk the trails on your own\, in addition to enjoying our featured events of the day.[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row] URL:https://www.oldsf.bmkt.net/event/strawberry-feasts-at-glen-oak-ranch/ LOCATION:Glen Oaks Ranch ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://www.oldsf.bmkt.net/wp/wp-content/uploads/2016/04/savoringstrawberryvarietals.jpg ORGANIZER;CN="Slow Food Russian River":MAILTO:russianriverca@slowfoodusa.org END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20160505T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20160505T210000 DTSTAMP:20260513T103143 CREATED:20160304T070414Z LAST-MODIFIED:20170217T003357Z UID:3713-1462474800-1462482000@www.oldsf.bmkt.net SUMMARY:Book Group: The End of Overeating\, by David Kessler DESCRIPTION:The Slow Food Russian River Book Group will be reading the book The End of Overeating: Taking Control of the Insatiable American Appetite (Rodale Books\, 2009)\, by David Kessler. \nTo RSVP email the Book Group at Slow Food Russian River Book Group. The 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\, 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*** \nPublisher’s Blurb \nDr. David A. Kessler\, the dynamic and controversial former FDA commissioner (1990-1997) known for his crusade against the tobacco industry\, is taking on another business that’s making Americans sick: the food industry. \nIn The End of Overeating\, Dr. Kessler shows us how our brain chemistry has been hijacked by the foods we most love to eat: those that contain stimulating combinations of fat\, sugar\, and salt.\nDrawn from the latest brain science as well as interviews with top physicians and food industry insiders\, \nThe End of Overeating exposes the food industry’s aggressive marketing tactics and reveals shocking facts about how we lost control over food and what we can do to get it back. \nFor the millions of people struggling with their weight as well as those of us who simply can’t seem to eat our favorite foods in moderation\, Dr. Kessler’s cutting-edge investigation offers valuable insights and practical answers for America’s largest-ever public health crisis. There has never been a more thorough\, compelling\, or in-depth analysis of why we eat the way we do. \nGoodreads\nMost of us know what it feels like to fall under the spell of food—when one slice of pizza turns into half a pie\, or a handful of chips leads to an empty bag. But it’s harder to understand why we can’t seem to stop eating—even when we know better. When we want so badly to say “no\,” why do we continue to reach for food? Dr. David Kessler\, the dynamic former FDA commissioner who reinvented the food label and tackled the tobacco industry\, now reveals how the food industry has hijacked the brains of millions of Americans. The result? America’s number-one public health issue. \nDr. Kessler cracks the code of overeating by explaining how our bodies and minds are changed when we consume foods that contain sugar\, fat\, and salt. Food manufacturers create products by manipulating these ingredients to stimulate our appetites\, setting in motion a cycle of desire and consumption that ends with a nation of overeaters. The End of Overeating explains for the first time why it is exceptionally difficult to resist certain foods and why it’s so easy to overindulge. \nDr. Kessler met with top scientists\, physicians\, and food industry insiders. The End of Overeating uncovers the shocking facts about how we lost control over our eating habits—and how we can get it back. Dr. Kessler presents groundbreaking research\, along with what is sure to be a controversial view inside the industry that continues to feed a nation of overeaters—from popular brand manufacturers to advertisers\, chain restaurants\, and fast food franchises.  For the millions of people struggling with weight as well as for those of us who simply don’t understand why we can’t seem to stop eating our favorite foods\, Dr. Kessler’s cutting-edge investigation offers new insights and helpful tools to help us find a solution. \nThere has never been a more thorough\, compelling\, or in-depth analysis of why we eat the way we do. (Goodreads) \nIndigo Books\nIn The End of Overeating\, Dr. David A. Kessler\, former Commissioner of the U.S. Food and Drug Administration\, takes an in-depth look at the ways in which we have been conditioned to overeat. Dr. Kessler presents a combination of fascinating anecdotes and newsworthy research – including interviews with physicians\, psychologists\, and neurologists – to understand how we became a culture addicted to the over-consumption of unhealthy foods. He also provides a controversial view inside the food industry\, from popular processed food manufacturers to advertisers\, chain restaurants\, and fast food franchises. Kessler deconstructs the endless cycle of craving and consumption that the industry has created\, and breaks down how our minds and bodies join in the conspiracy to make it all work. He concludes by offering us a common sense prescription for change\, both in our selves and in our culture. (Indigo Books) \n*** \n• Talk by David Kessler at the Harvard Bookstore (video) on October 5\, 2010. David A\, Kessler\, former commissioner of the US Food & Drug Administration\, discusses his book\, “The End of Overeating: Taking Control of the Insatiable American Appetite\,” presented by Harvard Book Store. Kessler explains how the food industry manipulates the way we eat\, why it is exceptionally difficult to resist certain foods\, and why its so easy to overindulge. He also provides facts about how to better control eating habits. \n• Interview with David Kessler by Louise McCready Hart. Huffington Post\, June 6\, 2009. \n• Review of The End of Overeating by Teresa Britton. FoodAnthropology\, the blog of the Society for the Anthropology of Food and Nutrition. \n• Review in EatRightPRO\, of the Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics. \n• How the Food Makers Captured Our Brains\, by Tara Parker-Pope. New York Times\, June 22\, 2009. \n• The Peril of Palatability. A former FDA chief sounds the alarm about dangerously delicious food\, by Jacob Sullum. Reason\, November 2009 issue. \n  \n  URL:https://www.oldsf.bmkt.net/event/book-group-the-end-of-overeating/ LOCATION:Private Home in Sebastopol\, Address with RSVP\, Sebastopol\, CA\, 95472\, United States CATEGORIES:Book Group ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://www.oldsf.bmkt.net/wp/wp-content/uploads/2016/03/endofovereating8a.jpg ORGANIZER;CN="Slow Food Russian River Book Group":MAILTO:sfrrbookgroup@gmail.com END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20160424T030000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20160424T170000 DTSTAMP:20260513T103143 CREATED:20160413T235326Z LAST-MODIFIED:20160413T235326Z UID:3855-1461466800-1461517200@www.oldsf.bmkt.net SUMMARY:Earth Day 2016 Disco Soup DESCRIPTION:[vc_row type=”in_container” 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″][vc_column_text]Earth Day 2016 Disco Soup | Let’s Turn Food Waste into a Dance Party! \nIn conjunction with the Sebastopol Village Building Convergence we are inviting you to participate a Disco Soup where we turn food waste into a party and a meal! \nWhat a better way to celebrate earth day than going to a free all-ages dance party\, where you can help cook soup for everyone\, with ugly unsold vegetables gleaned from local farms… when this dance party is also the last day of a ten day community building festival (Village Building Convergence Sebastopol)? \nBring your apron\, knife and groove as well as your children\, neighbors\, parents\, cousins\, friends… Come as early as ten days ahead as there is a lot going on in VBC 🙂 (http://sebastopolvbc.weebly.com/) \nWe’d love to see you there…and check out the list of remaining needs to see if you might be able to contribute: \n\nWhat: Make and enjoy soup and dance music! Bring a chopping board\, knife\, bowl\, spoon\, apron\, water cup and dancing shoes!\nWhy: We will use food that would have gone to waste and share it freely with everyone while we enjoy some great dance music!\nWhere: Outside the front of the Sebastopol Community Center.\nWhen: April 24th\, starting at 3pm. Clean-up ending at 5pm\nWho: Sponsored by Slow Food Russian River and the Grange Credit Union.\nRSVP on the Facebook Event page\n\n  \nWhat is A Disco Soup Event? \nThe event invites participants to join in cooking delicious meals with food waste that has been collected before it is thrown away. A great way to learn something new and grow the food waste prevention movement while having fun and enjoying Disco music! \n  \nVolunteers\, Food & Chef(s) Wanted \n\nChef(s): We are hoping to inspire a great chef or two who can transform food that would have gone to waste into yummy soups!\nFood: We are accepting donations of food that would have gone to waste ranging for local veggies to bone broth makings\nVolunteers: Looking for volunteers willing to help with logistics on the evening of the event.\nSpreading the Word: Having your help advertising and spreading the word would be wonderful!\n\nContact the organizer Zeynep Brockett Yildirim[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row type=”in_container” 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″][vc_column_text][/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row] URL:https://www.oldsf.bmkt.net/event/earth-day-2016-disco-soup/ LOCATION:Sebastopol Community Cultural Center\, 390 Morris Street\, Zebastopol\, CA\, 95472\, United States ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://www.oldsf.bmkt.net/wp/wp-content/uploads/2016/04/earthdaydiscosoup.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20160422T170000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20160422T193000 DTSTAMP:20260513T103143 CREATED:20160330T221849Z LAST-MODIFIED:20170112T205038Z UID:3732-1461344400-1461353400@www.oldsf.bmkt.net SUMMARY:Open House — Slow Salon\, Friday\, April 22\, 2016 DESCRIPTION:Our Open House\, the SFRR Slow Salon\, is a convivial get-together for members\, recent members who are considering joining again and prospective members. Please bring a beverage and 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. \n• Anna Chotzen\, the new manager of the Bodega Bay Community Fishing Association. \n• Pamela Letourneau about the  Sebastopol Gravenstein Apple Presidium\, and how to become active in the Apple Core and with the Community Apple Press. \n• Angie Corwin-Laskey\, North Coast Regional Manager of CAFF (Community Alliance with Family Farmers) about the Harvest of the Month program. \n• Announcement of more details of Strawberry Feast at Glen Oak Ranch\, an event in partnership with the Sonoma Land Trust\, May 21\, 2016 and of other events in preparation. \n• Tony Cohen summarizes his work to make a local native food\, California Bay Laurel nuts\, a commercially viable food source. \n• Karen Hudson of Citizens for Healthy Farms and Families about the GMO-Free Sonoma County Initiative that will be on the ballot in November. \n****\nAnna Chotzen’s Presentation\n[docconversionapi-viewer pdf_width=100% pdf_height=500px]https://api.docconversionapi.com/view/pdf/?file=https://api.docconversionapi.com/api/file/display/479/Anna_Chotzen_April_2016_SFRR_Open_House?showLogo=true&thumbnails=true&properties=true&navbar=true&skipbtns=true&skippage=true&search=true&zoom=true&psmode=true&rotate=true&download=true&currviewpos=true&enableHandTool=true[/docconversionapi-viewer]\nAngie Corwin’s Presentation\n[docconversionapi-viewer pdf_width=100% pdf_height=500px]https://api.docconversionapi.com/view/pdf/?file=https://api.docconversionapi.com/api/file/display/479/HOTM_CAFF_Photo_Slide_Show?showLogo=true&thumbnails=true&properties=true&navbar=true&skipbtns=true&skippage=true&search=true&zoom=true&psmode=true&rotate=true&download=true&currviewpos=true&enableHandTool=true[/docconversionapi-viewer] URL:https://www.oldsf.bmkt.net/event/open-house-slow-salon-friday-april-22-2016/ LOCATION:CA CATEGORIES:Open House—Slow Salon ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://www.oldsf.bmkt.net/wp/wp-content/uploads/2016/03/foropenhouse2016.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20160416T090000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20160416T120000 DTSTAMP:20260513T103143 CREATED:20160411T212654Z LAST-MODIFIED:20160411T230702Z UID:3825-1460797200-1460808000@www.oldsf.bmkt.net SUMMARY:March with Other Grav Lovers in the 2016 Apple Blossom Parade DESCRIPTION:Walk with Us and other Grav Lovers in the 2016 Apple Blossom Parade\nSlow Food Russian River invites you to walk with other Grav Lovers in the 2016 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\n1. We are group 1\, number 28. That is VERY different from previous years. We are literally moving up. Group one means we will begin marching soon after the 10:00 start so meet around 9:00 to 9:30 down High School Rd. \n2. Our staging location is different. We will gather in the 28th position down High School Rd. from Analy High School. The best drop off will be via E. Hurlbut. \n3. The group in front of us in position 27 is Sebastopol Historical Society pulling a trailer with a statue of Luther Burbank. Very cool. \n4. If you have any\, wear SLOW Food clothes\, shirts\, aprons\, hats and comfortable shoes.  If possible\, wear GREEN t-shirts and bring blooming apple branches.  If you wear a baseball type hat\, we will try to staple one of our Save the Gravensteins bumper stickers to your hat. \n5. Best of all\, since we are early in the parade\, we will be able to enjoy watching most of it when we are done. Parade ends at Calder. URL:https://www.oldsf.bmkt.net/event/march-with-other-grav-lovers-in-the-2016-apple-blossom-parade/ LOCATION:Launching Grounds Parade of the Annual Sebastopol Apple Blossom Festival\, Wallace Street\, Sebastopol\, CA\, 95472\, United States ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://www.oldsf.bmkt.net/wp/wp-content/uploads/2016/04/appleblossomparade02.jpg ORGANIZER;CN="Slow Food Russian River Apple Core":MAILTO:info@slowfoodrr.org END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20160407T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20160407T210000 DTSTAMP:20260513T103143 CREATED:20151004T170022Z LAST-MODIFIED:20160205T191639Z UID:3060-1460055600-1460062800@www.oldsf.bmkt.net SUMMARY:Book Group: Food and Freedom\, A Free Network\, by Carlo Petrini DESCRIPTION:The Slow Food Russian River Book Group will be reading the book Food & Freedom (Cibo e libertà). How the Slow Food Movement Is Changing the World through Gastronomy\, by Carlo Petrini\, Translated by John Irving (Rizzoli\, New York\, 2015)\, especially part III (pp. 128–177) and part IV (pp. 178–239)\, A Free Network and The Gastronomy of Liberation. \nCarlo Petrini is the author of Slow Food Nation and the founder of the Slow Food organization\, which counts 100\,000 members in 150 countries. Petrini was named a “Champion of the Earth” by the United Nations. and received the Sicco Mansholt Price for Slow Food’s contribution to sustainable agriculture. Sicco Mansholt was a farmer\, a member of the Dutch resistance during the Second World War\, a national politician and the first European Commissioner responsible for Agriculture.\nTo RSVP write the Book Group at Slow Food Russian River Book Group . The 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\, 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*** \nPublisher’s Blurb \nInspiring the global fight to revolutionize the way food is grown\, distributed\, and eaten. In the almost thirty years since Carlo Petrini began the Slow Food organization\, he has been constantly engaged in the fight for food justice. Beginning first in his native Italy and then expanding all over the world\, the movement has created a powerful force for change.\nThe essential argument of this book is that food is an avenue towards freedom. This uplifting and humanistic message is straightforward: if people can feed themselves\, they can be free. In other words\, if people can regain control over access to their food—how it is produced\, by whom\, and how it is distributed—then that can lead to a greater empowerment in all channels of life. Whether in the Amazon jungle talking with tribal elders or on rice paddies in rural Indonesia\, the author engages the reader through the excitement of his journeys and the passion of his mission.\nHere\, Petrini reports upon some of the success stories that he has observed firsthand. From Chiapas to Puglia\, Morocco to North Carolina\, he has witnessed the many ways different peoples have dealt with food problems. This book allows us to learn from these case studies and lays out models for the future. \n*** \n• Review by Jonah Raskin\, on this Slow Food Russian River website.\n• Review by Rachel Jagareski\, August 27\, 2015\, on Foreword Reviews.\n• A Preview of Carlo Petrini’s Latest Book: Cibo e libertà (Food and Freedom)\, May. 21\, 2014\, by John Irving\, Slow Food Editore and translator of the book\, on the Slow Food USA blog.\n• Reviewed by Gretchen Wagner for San Francisco Book Review.\n• Featured as one of 10 new books that celebrate the beauty of freedom now\, on Beautiful Now. \n  URL:https://www.oldsf.bmkt.net/event/book-group-food-and-freedom-a-free-network-by-carlo-petrini/ LOCATION:Private Home in Sebastopol\, Address with RSVP\, Sebastopol\, CA\, 95472\, United States ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://www.oldsf.bmkt.net/wp/wp-content/uploads/2015/10/foodandfreedomwithcarlofeatured.jpg ORGANIZER;CN="Slow Food Russian River Book Group":MAILTO:sfrrbookgroup@gmail.com END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20160404T173000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20160404T190000 DTSTAMP:20260513T103143 CREATED:20160330T220901Z LAST-MODIFIED:20160330T220901Z UID:3762-1459791000-1459796400@www.oldsf.bmkt.net SUMMARY:Join the Gravenstein Apple Core\, April 4th\, 2016 DESCRIPTION:The Slow Food Russian River Gravenstein Apple Core Team will meet Monday\, April 4th\, 2016\, at 5:30pm\, at VIVA\, 7160 Keating in Sebastopol\, enjoying homemade appetizers and sweets\, and local beverages and planning the upcoming Apple Season activities. \nMain item on the agenda is planning our participation in the Apple Blossom Parade in Sebastopol\, on the morning of Saturday\, April 16. \nThe Gravenstein Apple Core is your group if you want to help support local Sonoma County apple growers\, through education\, demonstrations\, hands-on work with the Community Apple Press\, or bring some new ideas to the table. Email Paula Shatkin at info (at) slowfoodrr.org URL:https://www.oldsf.bmkt.net/event/join-gravenstein-apple-core-april-4th-2016/ LOCATION:VIVA – The Culinary Institute of Florence/Italian Cultural Center\, 7160 Keating Avenue\, Sebastopol\, CA\, 95472\, United States ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://www.oldsf.bmkt.net/wp/wp-content/uploads/2015/04/Gravensteins-are-Coming-2.jpg ORGANIZER;CN="Slow Food Russian River Apple Core":MAILTO:info@slowfoodrr.org END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20160320T160000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20160320T193000 DTSTAMP:20260513T103143 CREATED:20160314T203832Z LAST-MODIFIED:20160319T163618Z UID:3717-1458489600-1458502200@www.oldsf.bmkt.net SUMMARY:Disco Soup Sonoma | Let’s Turn Food Waste into a Dance Party! DESCRIPTION:Disco Soup Sonoma | Let’s Turn Food Waste into a Dance Party! \nIn conjunction with the Sebastopol Film Festival and the food waste film “Waste Cooking”\, we are inviting you to participate in Sonoma County’s 1st Ever Disco Soup where we turn food waste into a party and meal! \nWe’d love to see you there…and check out the list of remaining needs to see if you might be able to contribute: \n\nWhat: Make and enjoy soup and dance music! Bring a chopping board\, knife\, bowl\, spoon\, apron\, water cup and dancing shoes!\nWhy: Inspired by our sponsored film\, Waste Cooking\, we will use food that would have gone to waste and share it freely with everyone while we enjoy some great dance music!\nWhere: Outside the front of the Sebastopol Center for the Arts (Veterans Building).\nWhen: March 20th\, starting at 4pm. Clean-up ending at 7:30pm\nWho: Sponsored by Slow Food Russian River\, Laguna Farm\, CropMobster and the Grange Credit Union (same folks sponsoring our film) with support from the Sebastopol Documentary Film Festival and Sebastopol Center for the Arts!\nRSVP: Here’s the Facebook Event page: https://www.facebook.com/events/193097111061826/  or send us an email\n\n  \nWhat is A Disco Soup Event? \nThe event invites participants to join in cooking delicious meals with food waste that has been collected before it is thrown away. A great way to learn something new and grow the food waste prevention movement while having fun and enjoying Disco music! \n  \nVolunteers\, Food & Chef(s) Wanted \n\nChef(s): We are hoping to inspire a great chef or two who can transform food that would have gone to waste into yummy soups!\nFood: We are accepting donations of food that would have gone to waste ranging for local veggies to bone broth makings\nVolunteers: Looking for volunteers willing to help with logistics on the evening of the event.\nSpreading the Word: Having your help advertising and spreading the word would be wonderful!\n\nContact the organizer Max Caruso URL:https://www.oldsf.bmkt.net/event/disco-soup-sonoma-2016/ LOCATION:Sebastopol Center for the Arts\, 282 South High Street\, Sebastopol\, CA\, 95472\, United States ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://www.oldsf.bmkt.net/wp/wp-content/uploads/2016/03/DiscoSoup3.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20160320T151500 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20160320T170000 DTSTAMP:20260513T103143 CREATED:20160222T222011Z LAST-MODIFIED:20160222T223848Z UID:3667-1458486900-1458493200@www.oldsf.bmkt.net SUMMARY:Wastecooking: Make Food\, Not Waste DESCRIPTION:Slow Food Russian River is co-sponsoring the film Wastecooking: Make Food\, Not Waste at the Sebastopol Documentary Film Festival.\nSunday\, March 20\, 3:15-5pm\nSebastopol Center for the Arts\n282 S High St\nSebastopol\, CA 95472 \nWastecooking: Make Food\, Not Waste\nAustria\, 2015\, 82 minutes\nDirectors: David Gross and Georg Misch\nWebsite \n\nSynopsis\nA car that runs on used vegetable oil\, a mobile stove and a host of culinary ideas in his backpack: Wastecooking – Make Food\, Not Waste is an entertaining road movie detailing a journey through five European countries\, where the only thing on the menu is what others call garbage. David\, the host of Wastecooking – Make Food\, Not Waste\, whips up creative meals aimed at fighting food waste and our consumption-driven society\, and at the same time inspire us to search for creative solutions. \nDavid Gross travels through five European countries on a quest for treasure. According to the UN’s Food and Agricultural Organization FAO\, one third of all food produced around the world ends up in the garbage\, roughly 89 million tons of food a year in Europe alone. David seeks out places where waste happens and asks: How can we save food that would otherwise go to waste and transform it into delicious recipes? Austria\, Germany\, the Netherlands\, Belgium and France are all on the menu. \nOn his journey he rescues food from becoming trash\, and in every country he meets committed activists with ideas on how to combat waste. On board are gourmet chefs\, scientists and connoisseurs who team up to create sumptuous waste cuisine in protest against our consumption-driven society. David gets a look behind the scenes of the European Parliament’s cafeteria and even the refrigerators of everyday residents of the city of Salzburg. He cooks up a fresh bouillabaisse made from by-catch on a French fishing boat\, invites people to participate in a “Schnippeldisko” in Berlin and combs Mother Nature for edible delectables. All the while\, he compiles an innovative culinary travel guide with clever and delicious meals made from all sorts of rescued and collected food. With him on his journey is his trademark garbage dumpster\, which he rebuilt into a mobile cooking stove\, and his wastemobile\, which only runs on used vegetable oil. \nWastecooking – Make Food\, Not Waste is a biting self-experiment. It also offers inspiration for embarking on less travelled paths and getting to know and appreciate food from a different angle. And naturally for transforming it into creative dishes. \nA great insight into the topic of food waste in Europe is our Scroll Dok Wastecooking. On the Wastecooking Facebook-page you find great initiatives and links about the topic as well as wastefood-recipes. \n\nIn German with English subtitles.\n\n\n\nHelpers at the Schnippeldisco (a “Chopping Dance Party”) in Berlin – Wastecooking URL:https://www.oldsf.bmkt.net/event/wastecooking-make-food-not-waste/ LOCATION:Sebastopol Center for the Arts\, 282 South High Street\, Sebastopol\, CA\, 95472\, United States CATEGORIES:Film Event ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://www.oldsf.bmkt.net/wp/wp-content/uploads/2016/02/wastecookingwebsitefeaturedimage.png END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20160320T110000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20160320T150000 DTSTAMP:20260513T103143 CREATED:20160211T184746Z LAST-MODIFIED:20160320T023105Z UID:3614-1458471600-1458486000@www.oldsf.bmkt.net SUMMARY:It's All About the Soil - Farming on a hot planet DESCRIPTION:Sunday\, March 20\, 11am – 3pm\nGreen String Farm\,\n3571 Old Adobe Road\, Petaluma\, CA \n \nThere is now the option to get tickets at the door.\nSlow Food Russian River is excited to present best-selling author and educator Anna Lappé and leading climate and food policy activists Diana Donlon and Michael Dimock. Join us Sunday\, March 20 at Green String Farm in Petaluma for this stimulating\, thought-provoking 4-hour event that explores the connection of soil\, farming and climate change. \nClimate change is forcing us to rethink farming methods. Globally\, more than twice as much carbon is stored in our soil as in our living vegetation. Maintaining that soil and getting more carbon sequestered in the land is a key part of mitigating the crisis. The farmer is a great\, untapped resource in the fight against climate change. Hear about solutions emerging from the land:  from the soil\, the crops\, and the farmers who are employing climate-friendly methods to restore and regenerate the soil. Learn how your informed choices about your diet and your garden have an impact. And how Sonoma County and California are leading the way. \nLunch\nWe will enjoy a lunch break right after Anna Lappé’s talk. Bring your lunch or reserve a box lunch online (chicken or vegetarian) for $12 with your ticket. There will be coffee\, tea and water.  Please bring your own water bottle and refill it. \nLunch is followed by a conversation with Diana Donlon and Michael Dimock. The event ends at 3pm. \nExpert and Entertaining Speakers\nAnna Lappé\nAnna Lappé is a national bestselling author of Diet for a Hot Planet and a widely respected educator and speaker\, known for her work as an expert on food systems and as a sustainable food advocate. She is the founder of the Small Planet Institute and Small Planet Fund with her mother\, Frances Moore Lappé. She is also the founder and director of the Real Food Media Project\, a web-based action center to grow the movement for sustainable food and farming. \n \nDiana Donlon\nDiana Donlon is the director of Food and Climate at the Center for Food Safety where her work centers on advancing the global opportunity to mitigate climate change\, increase food and water supplies and protect habitat through rebuilding soil carbon. Soil Solutions to Climate Problems\, a new four-minute film she produced\, was screened by the French Ministry of Agriculture at the recent UN Climate Conference in Paris. Diana has worked for a variety of family foundations supporting youth and sustainable agriculture programs. \n Michael Dimock\nMichael Dimock is the president of Roots of Change\, an organization dedicated to creating a sustainable food system in California by the year 2030.  ROC builds relationships within various parts of the food system including farmers\, workers\, environmentalists\, food justice advocates and government  to create a food movement that offers communities better health and resilience for the 21st century. Michael is a co-founder of Slow Food Russian River and a Past President of Slow Food USA. \n  URL:https://www.oldsf.bmkt.net/event/its-all-about-the-soil-farming-on-a-hot-planet/ LOCATION:Green String Farm\, 3571 Old Adobe Road\, Petaluma\, CA\, 94954\, United States ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://www.oldsf.bmkt.net/wp/wp-content/uploads/2016/02/soil-title-speakers-1200x630.jpg ORGANIZER;CN="Karen Preuss":MAILTO:photokaren (at) sonic.net END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20160303T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20160303T210000 DTSTAMP:20260513T103143 CREATED:20160205T222423Z LAST-MODIFIED:20160205T231221Z UID:3602-1457031600-1457038800@www.oldsf.bmkt.net SUMMARY:Book Group: Dirt\, A Love Story\, edited by Barbara Richardson DESCRIPTION:The Slow Food Russian River Book Group will be reading the book Dirt\, A Love Story – 36 writers get down to earth\, edited by Barbara Richardson\, with a Foreword by Pam Houston (ForeEdge Books\, 2015). \nTo prepare for the conversation please read at least one essay from each of the five sections. \n***\nTo RSVP write the Book Group at Slow Food Russian River Book Group . The 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\, 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*** \nPublisher’s Blurb of Dirt\, A Love Story \nThirty-six artists\, scientists\, and renowned writers go wild about the virtues\, pleasure\, and importance of dirt! \nCommunity farms. Mud spas. Mineral paints. Nematodes. The world is waking up to the beauty and mystery of dirt. This anthology celebrates the Earth’s generous crust\, bringing together essays by award-winning scientists\, authors\, artists\, and dirt lovers to tell dirt’s exuberant tales. \nGeographically broad and topically diverse\, these essays reveal life as lived by dirt fanatics—admiring the first worm of spring\, taking a childhood twirl across a dusty Kansas farm\, calculating how soil breathes\, or baking mud pies. Essayists build a dirt house\, center a marriage around dirt\, sink down into marshy heaven\, and learn to read dirt’s own language. Scientists usher us deep underground with the worms and mycorrhizae to explore the vast and largely ignored natural processes occurring beneath our feet. Whether taking a trek to Venezuela to touch the oldest dirt in the world or reveling in the blessings of our own native soils\, these muscular essays answer the important question: How do you get down with dirt? \nA literary homage to dirt and its significance in our lives\, this book will interest hikers\, gardeners\, teachers\, urbanites\, farmers\, environmentalists\, ecologists\, and others intrigued by our planet’s alluring skin. \nTable of Contents of Dirt\, A Love Story \n• Foreword: Scratching the Surface—Pam Houston\n• Preface: The God of Dirt—Barbara Richardson\n• LAND CENTERED: “MAGNIFICENTLY HUMBLE”\n• My Life in Dirt—Edward Kanze\, Naturalist\n• The Great Beneath—Linda Hogan\, Author\n• Dirt Fantasies—Jana Richman\, Author\n• Praise to the Transformers—Janisse Ray\, Author\n• Glosses on Dirt—Erica Olsen\, Author\n• Soil Versus Dirt: A Reverie on Getting Down to Earth—Kayann Short\, CSA Farmer\n• Digging In—Elias Amidon\, Sufi Teacher\n• KID STUFF: “MAJOR IN MUD PIES”\n• Dirt Princess—Julene Bair\, Author\n• The First Worm—John T. Price\, Author\n• The Language of Clay—Roxanne Swentzell\, Sculptor\n• Dirt: Imago Ignota—John Keeble\, Author\n• Mud Pies—Chris Larson\, Green Architect\n• Services at the Church of Dirt—Marilyn Krysl\, Poet\n• DIRT WORSHIP: “THAT MOTHERLY FEELING”\n• Dreaming in Dirt—BK Loren\, Author\n• Tao of Dirt—Liz Stephens\, Author\n• The Life of Soil—Bernd Heinrich\, Biologist\n• Dirt in Love—Barbara Richardson\, Author\n• Dirt House—Peter Heller\, Author\n• Sinking Down into Heaven—Jeanne Rogers\, Artist and Author\n• DIRT FACTS: “INTERESTING SECRETS TO REVEAL”\n• The Soil’s Breath—Tyler Volk\, Biologist\n• Earthmover—Lisa Knopp\, Author\n• Worm Herder: A Q and A With Dr. Diana H. Wall — Carrie Visintainer\, Journalist\n• Seeing Soils—Deborah Koons Garcia\, Filmmaker\n• The Next Big Thing in Soil Science—Carl Rosen\, Soil Scientist\n• A Badge of Honor—Tom Wessels\, Terrestrial Ecologist\n• Dirty Business—David R. Montgomery\, Geomorphologist\n• Feed Your Soil—Bob Cannard and Fred Cline\, Sustainable Farmer and Vintner\n• NATIVE SOIL: “LOVED AND PROTECTED”?\n• Hostile Takeovers: An Ode to Guts and Gardens—Laura Pritchett\, Author\n• Fight the Power—Eban Goodstein\, Environmental Economist\n• Born Again: Loving the Least Worst Land in Mississippi—Donald G. Schueler\, Author\n• Stewards of the Land—Wes Jackson\, Agricultural Activist\n• We Are Soil—Vandana Shiva\, Soil and Seed Activist\n• City Dirt—Karen Washington\, Urban Farmer\n• Soil Versus Oil—Kale Versus Koch—Atina Diffley\, Organic Farmer\n• Contributors\n• Credits \n*** \nReviews \nBy Rosemarie Howard\, the Deseret News\nAmazon Customer Reviews\nGoodreads Reviews \nSlow Food Russian River Book Group at their February 2016 session. URL:https://www.oldsf.bmkt.net/event/book-group-dirt-a-love-story-edited-by-barbara-richardson/ LOCATION:Private Home in Sebastopol\, Address with RSVP\, Sebastopol\, CA\, 95472\, United States ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://www.oldsf.bmkt.net/wp/wp-content/uploads/2016/02/dirtalovestorywithbarbaraandTextOverlayandsoil.jpg ORGANIZER;CN="Slow Food Russian River Book Group":MAILTO:sfrrbookgroup@gmail.com END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20160204T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20160204T210000 DTSTAMP:20260513T103143 CREATED:20151004T134952Z LAST-MODIFIED:20160119T223657Z UID:3055-1454612400-1454619600@www.oldsf.bmkt.net SUMMARY:Book Group: Food and Freedom\, Liberated Gastronomy\, by Carlo Petrini DESCRIPTION:The Slow Food Russian River Book Group will be reading Food and Freedom\, Liberated Gastronomy and Liberating Diversity. \nThis is part I (pp. 1-72) and II (pp. 173–127) of the book Food & Freedom (Cibo e libertà). How the Slow Food Movement Is Changing the World through Gastronomy\, by Carlo Petrini\, Translated by John Irving (Rizzoli\, New York\, 2015). \nCarlo Petrini is the author of Slow Food Nation and the founder of the Slow Food organization\, which counts 100\,000 members in 150 countries. Petrini was named a “Champion of the Earth” by the United Nations. and received the Sicco Mansholt Price for Slow Food’s contribution to sustainable agriculture. Sicco Mansholt was a farmer\, a member of the Dutch resistance during the Second World War\, a national politician and the first European Commissioner responsible for Agriculture.\nTo RSVP write the Book Group at Slow Food Russian River Book Group . The 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\, 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*** \nPublisher’s Blurb \nInspiring the global fight to revolutionize the way food is grown\, distributed\, and eaten. In the almost thirty years since Carlo Petrini began the Slow Food organization\, he has been constantly engaged in the fight for food justice. Beginning first in his native Italy and then expanding all over the world\, the movement has created a powerful force for change.\nThe essential argument of this book is that food is an avenue towards freedom. This uplifting and humanistic message is straightforward: if people can feed themselves\, they can be free. In other words\, if people can regain control over access to their food—how it is produced\, by whom\, and how it is distributed—then that can lead to a greater empowerment in all channels of life. Whether in the Amazon jungle talking with tribal elders or on rice paddies in rural Indonesia\, the author engages the reader through the excitement of his journeys and the passion of his mission.\nHere\, Petrini reports upon some of the success stories that he has observed firsthand. From Chiapas to Puglia\, Morocco to North Carolina\, he has witnessed the many ways different peoples have dealt with food problems. This book allows us to learn from these case studies and lays out models for the future. \n*** \n• Review by Rachel Jagareski\, August 27\, 2015\, on Foreword Reviews.\n• A Preview of Carlo Petrini’s Latest Book: Cibo e libertà (Food and Freedom)\, May. 21\, 2014\, by John Irving\, Slow Food Editore and translator of the book\, on the Slow Food USA blog.\n• Reviewed by Gretchen Wagner for San Francisco Book Review.\n• Featured as one of 10 new books that celebrate the beauty of freedom now\, on Beautiful Now. \n  URL:https://www.oldsf.bmkt.net/event/food-and-freedom-liberated-gastronomy-by-carlo-petrini/ LOCATION:Private Home in Sebastopol\, Address with RSVP\, Sebastopol\, CA\, 95472\, United States CATEGORIES:Book Group ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://www.oldsf.bmkt.net/wp/wp-content/uploads/2015/10/foodandfreedomwithcarlofeatured.jpg ORGANIZER;CN="Slow Food Russian River Book Group":MAILTO:sfrrbookgroup@gmail.com END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20160131T140000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20160131T170000 DTSTAMP:20260513T103143 CREATED:20151201T083826Z LAST-MODIFIED:20160219T052413Z UID:3535-1454248800-1454259600@www.oldsf.bmkt.net SUMMARY:2016 Annual Members Meeting & Luncheon DESCRIPTION:(Photo Credit: Darla Schoenrock) \nYou are cordially invited to Slow Food Russian River’s 2016 Annual Members Meeting and Luncheon \nSunday\, Jan. 31\, 2 – 5pm\nat\nFranchettis’ Kitchen\n(formerly Rosso Rosticceria) \nFree to Slow Food Russian River Members \nRenew* or Join Slow Food Russian River at the door \n• get together for conviviality\, conversation\nand a delicious meal\n• recap 2015 events and ongoing projects\n• introduction of the new leadership team\n• discuss what’s planned for 2016\nand most importantly…\n• a great time\, great ideas\, everyone’s input and\nthe opportunity to volunteer \nPlease R.S.V.P. by Jan 22: Tickets \nPlease bring Appetizers or Desserts\nLast name A – L: Appetizers\nLast name M – Z: Desserts \nIf you wish\, please bring wine to share – beer available for purchase \nFranchettis’ Wood Fire Kitchen\n1229 N Dutton Ave\nSanta Rosa\, CA \nQuestions call or email :\nMarcia Lavine\nCell: 707-508-5292\nEmail: clavine@mailc.net \n*Check your membership status by following the link “update subscription preferences” at the bottom of your latest newsletter. \n****** \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. URL:https://www.oldsf.bmkt.net/event/2016-annual-members-meeting/ LOCATION:Franchettis’ Wood Fire Kitchen\, 1229 N Dutton Ave \, Santa Rosa\, CA\, 95401\, United States CATEGORIES:Members Only Event ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://www.oldsf.bmkt.net/wp/wp-content/uploads/2015/12/2015-member-meeting.jpg ORGANIZER;CN="Slow Food Russian River":MAILTO:russianriverca@slowfoodusa.org END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20151213T160000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20151213T190000 DTSTAMP:20260513T103143 CREATED:20151112T172258Z LAST-MODIFIED:20151212T021741Z UID:3439-1450022400-1450033200@www.oldsf.bmkt.net SUMMARY:Get into the Holiday Spirit: Slow Food Russian River Holiday Party 2015 DESCRIPTION:(Photo Credit: Darla Schoenrock) \nGet into the Holiday Spirit: Slow Food Russian River Holiday Party 2015\nPlease join us for a slow sipping cocktail party inspired by the bounty of Sonoma County! \nGet your tickets today! \nDecember 13th\, 4-7 p.m.\nVanguard Properties\nThe Barlow  6790 McKinley Street #120\nSebastopol \nReconnect with your Slow Food friends and family over locally produced\, globally inspired cocktails and bites provided by Chef Jenni Emory and the SFRR Leadership Team. \nDarlene Hayes\, who blogs at allintocider\, will demonstrate cider cocktails from her new book\, Cider Cocktails: Another Bite of the Apple\, and serve the Dr Walker cocktail (p. 24 of her book) with local persimmon puree\, West of Kentucky\, a bourbon whiskey from Sonoma County Distilling\, honey\, and Troy Cider\, a tart\, dry cider from Half Pint Ciders. \nOther cocktails made with Black Jack 21 cider\, a Gravenstein cider made by ACE\, and booze from Spirit Works Distillery (their Vodka\, Rye Whiskey\, and Sloe Gin) will be available too\, all included in the admission. \nPlease add to the spread by bringing your favorite holiday finger food\, sweet or savory to share. Darlene Hayes will bring the cherry cider chutney timbale (p. 46 of her book) with Cherry Cider from Red Branch Cider in Sunnyvale. \nWe’ll also hear about our chapter’s connections to the global Slow Food Community in honor of Terra Madre Day. \nAnd as an added bonus… Spirit Works is conveniently located right next door and  has offered to host a special after hours tour and tasting for those who want to imbibe a little more of the holiday spirit! ($20 add on). The tour starts at 4 p.m. and then you can join the party after. \nAt Spirit Works\, the milling\, mashing\, fermenting\, stripping out of the alcohol with the still\, and finishing runs through a 21-plate batch rectification column are all done in-house\, much of it by hand.  Read this story about the distillery at Tales of the Cocktails. \nGet your tickets today! \nThanks to Our Sponsors\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n \n\n\n  URL:https://www.oldsf.bmkt.net/event/get-into-the-holiday-spirit-slow-food-russian-river-holiday-party-2015/ LOCATION:Vanguard Properties\, 6790 McKinley St #120\, Sebastopol\, CA\, 95472\, United States ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://www.oldsf.bmkt.net/wp/wp-content/uploads/2015/11/Slow-Food-Russian-River-Holiday-Party-2014.jpg ORGANIZER;CN="Slow Food Russian River":MAILTO:russianriverca@slowfoodusa.org END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20151203T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20151203T210000 DTSTAMP:20260513T103143 CREATED:20150622T184917Z LAST-MODIFIED:20151007T234828Z UID:2052-1449169200-1449176400@www.oldsf.bmkt.net SUMMARY:Book Group: Consulting the Genius of the Place\, Away from the Extractive Economy\, by Wes Jackson DESCRIPTION:The Slow Food Russian River Book Group will be reading the book Consulting the Genius of the Place\, Part II\, by Wes Jackson (CounterPoint\, Berkeley\, 2010) \, Section 3 and 4\, pp. 146 – 253\, Away from the Extractive Economy. \nTo RSVP write the Book Group at Slow Food Russian River Book Group . The 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\, 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. \n*** \nReviewer’s Commentaries\nContinuing the trajectory of Jackson’s earlier works\, Consulting the Genius of the Place is a crucial addition to a conversation in which anyone who wants to keep eating has a stake. Combining memoir\, scientific argument\, and prophetic diatribe\, this book is a bit like the prairie ecosystem it lauds: a sometimes gnarly\, sometimes lovely mix of ideas whose roots go deep\, and which possesses in its vitality emergent properties of its own. Only by consulting the genius of our own places instead of imposing our wills upon them\, Jackson warns\, can we carbon-hungry creatures avoid the fate of the petri dish. (Fred Bahnson\, in Orion Magazine). \nThe themes of place\, biodiversity and the virtues of perennial plants that have abounded in Jackson’s previous books converge in Jackson’s thorough argument for a new approach to agriculture that is dictated not by market economies or agribusiness but rather by the land and ecology of a given place. (Chris Smith\, in Englewoods Review of Books). \nBio from the Schumacher Institute: \nWes Jackson is one of the foremost figures in the international sustainable agriculture movement. Founder and president of The Land Institute in Salina\, Kansas\, he has pioneered reserach in Natural Systems Agriculture — including perennial grains\, perennial polycultures\, and intercropping — for over 30 years. He was a professor of biology at Kansas Wesleyan and later established the Environmental Studies program at California State University\, Sacramento\, where he became a tenured full professor. He is the author of several books including Becoming Native to This Place (1994)\, Altars of Unhewn Stone(1987)\, and New Roots for Agriculture (1980). \nThe work of the Land Institute has been featured extensively in the popular media\, including The Atlantic Monthly\, Audubon\, The MacNeil-Lehrer News Hour\, and All Things Considered. Life magazine predicted Wes Jackson will be among the 100 “most important Americans of the 20th century.” He is a recipient of the Pew Conservation Scholars award and a MacArthur Fellowship\, and has been listed as one of Smithsonian’s “35 Who Made a Difference”. Wes has an M.A. in botany from University of Kansas\, and a Ph.D. in genetics from North Carolina State University. \nSee also this interview with Wes Jackson\, by Kathryn True\, The Genius of Place. The Land Institute founder on tapping the genius of the prairie in the design of agriculture. URL:https://www.oldsf.bmkt.net/event/book-group-consulting-the-genius-of-the-place-away-from-the-extractive-economy-by-wes-jackson/ LOCATION:Private Home in Sebastopol\, Address with RSVP\, Sebastopol\, CA\, 95472\, United States CATEGORIES:Book Group ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://www.oldsf.bmkt.net/wp/wp-content/uploads/2015/05/wessjacksonbookglass.jpg ORGANIZER;CN="Slow Food Russian River Book Group":MAILTO:sfrrbookgroup@gmail.com END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20151120T170000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20151120T190000 DTSTAMP:20260513T103143 CREATED:20151005T221855Z LAST-MODIFIED:20151209T191611Z UID:2935-1448038800-1448046000@www.oldsf.bmkt.net SUMMARY:Open House — Slow Salon\, Friday\, November 20\, 2015 DESCRIPTION:Our Open House\, the SFRR Slow Salon\, is a convivial get-together for members\, recent members who are considering joining again and prospective members. Please bring a beverage and/or appetizer. \nHear from Slow Food Leaders about upcoming events and ongoing projects and see how you can plug in. Ask your questions and provide your ideas for projects and events the chapter may take on. \n• Paula Shatkin about the founding of our chapter\, the early years\, and what in her judgment makes our chapter alive and kicking. \n• Sue Deevy about the  Sebastopol Gravenstein Apple Presidium\, and how to become active in the Apple Core and with the Community Apple Press. \n• Elissa Rubin-Mahon\, of Artisan Preserves\, about the Ark of Taste\, telling the Story of the Bodega Red. What’s there to do working on the Ark? \n• Lillian Blackof Green Goose Farm on writing blog posts for the Slow Food Russian River website and how to join the team. \n• Roy Smith of Green Goose Farm on Slow Meat in the North Bay and what’s cooking. \n• Peg Champion about Policy Issues and Slow Food’s work in Sacramento with allied organizations to support policies for good\, clean\, and fair food\, and how you can get involved. \n• Rebecca Black of Green Goose Farm on the Slow Food Russian River Book Group\, what’s next for reading about food and ag\, and how this can inform our projects and events. How to Join. \n• Mike Stevenson of Warm Spring Wind Hop Farm About the recently founded NorCal Hop Growers Alliance and the potential for a “slow beer” type project. \n• Announcement of details of the Holiday Party on December 13\, 4–7pm\, and the date of the 2016 Membership Meeting. \nPlease send your RSVP to russianriverca@slowfoodusa.org URL:https://www.oldsf.bmkt.net/event/open-house-slow-salon-friday-november-20-2015/ LOCATION:Private Home in Sebastopol\, Address with RSVP\, Sebastopol\, CA\, 95472\, United States CATEGORIES:Open House—Slow Salon ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://www.oldsf.bmkt.net/wp/wp-content/uploads/2015/10/OpenHouse344bhighresolution2.jpg ORGANIZER;CN="Slow Food Russian River":MAILTO:russianriverca@slowfoodusa.org END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR