Old Hill Ranch & Will Bucklin: Good, Clean & Fair When I think of a vineyard steward and winemaker who embodies the Slow Food philosophy of “good, clean, and fair” I think first and foremost of Will Bucklin at Old Hill Ranch in Glen Ellen. Named after its founder, William…
At our recent Annual Members and Community Meeting, Slow Food Russian River Leaders presented 2016 Highlights and a 2017 Preview. Thanks goes to Brad Whitworth and Peg Champion for putting the powerpoint together.
Interactive: Anatomy of Native Californian Baskets
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Learn more about Native Californian baskets. Click through and find a deeper appreciation for the art of basketry.
Vincent Medina and Louis Trevino serve California cuisine at their Café Ohlone. But don’t expect goat cheese and avocados. For these chefs and food activists, California cuisine is replete with local foods such as mushrooms, acorn flour, smoked venison and watercress. This is elegant, sophisticated cuisine, not survival food. And while the ingredients date back millennia, the preparation is decidedly modern-fusion. Trevino and Medina are not stuck in a museum and neither is their Indigenous culture. As these leaders put it, to peg the inception of California cuisine to the era of Wolfgang Puck and his contemporaries is “not fair, not true, and completely erases us from the equation...”
Read the full, fantastic story at slowfoodusa.org/slow-food-leaders-vincent-medina-and-louis-trevino/
Just a small sample of the seeds we’ll be propagating for our Pepper 🌶 Plant Sale at Steele Lane Elementary School this Spring. From the world’s hottest to the mild and sweet, we’ve got you covered! #schoolgardens #slowfood #slowfoodrussianriver #slowgarden #hotpeppers #chilies #carolinareaper #ghostpepper #trinadadscorpion #ahíamarillo #habenero #scotchbonnet #fire #somelikeithot
they better get em going soon!
Carla, are any chiltepines part of your planting?
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