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. If 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...
Our 2016 Holiday Party Please 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. The ritual of sharing food is a vital way that we connect. Let's gather to celebrate the abundance...
The Slow Food Russian River Book Group will be discussing the book Delizia!: The Epic History of the Italians and Their Food (Free Press, 2008) by John Dickie on Thursday, February 1, 2016. To RSVP email the Book Group at sfrrbookgroup@gmail.com. The Book Group is open to anyone who can read, loves cooking a...
For this (first) Piccolo we're reading M.F.K. Fisher, Julia Child, and Alice Waters: Celebrating the Pleasures of the Table, by Joan Reardon, up to page 66. Our Piccolo is a quick, short, Book Group meeting at a local coffee house on Mondays, 11am - noon. This time we're meeting at...
The Slow Food Russian River Book Group will be discussing the book The End of Plenty: The Race to Feed a Crowded World (New York : W. W. Norton & Company, 2015) by Joel K. Bourne Jr. on Thursday, February 2, 2017. To RSVP email the Book Group at sfrrbookgroup@gmail.com. The Book...
All Good, Clean and Fair Food Lovers are invited to get together for conviviality, conversation, and a delicious Middle Eastern meal prepared by Isa Jacoby at our 2017 Annual Members and Community Meeting where we will lay out the year ahead. Bring appetizers and desserts, beverages (alcoholic or otherwise). Bring...
For this (second) Piccolo we're reading M.F.K. Fisher, Julia Child, and Alice Waters: Celebrating the Pleasures of the Table, by Joan Reardon, Chapter 3, D*E*A*R F*R*I*E*N*D (pp. 69 - 110). The chapter starts "The story of how the salutations "Dear Mrs. Child" and "Dear Mrs. Fisher" changed to "Dear Julia"...
For this (third) Piccolo we're reading M.F.K. Fisher, Julia Child, and Alice Waters: Celebrating the Pleasures of the Table, by Joan Reardon, Chapter 4, In Julia's Kitchen (pp. 111 - 150). The chapter starts: "Kitchens* have not always been Julia Child's mise-en-scène. In fact her recollections of the one in the big,...
The Film: An Acquired Taste Slow Food Russian River is proud to sponsor the film An Acquired Taste, directed by Vanessa LeMaire, as part of the 10th Annual Sebastopol Documentary Film Festival. Friday, March 24, 2017, 4:15 - 6pm. Doors open 3:45pm. Tickets for An Acquired Taste Individual Tickets for the film are $12...
For this (fourth) Piccolo we're reading M.F.K. Fisher, Julia Child, and Alice Waters: Celebrating the Pleasures of the Table, by Joan Reardon, Chapter 5, Bon Appétit (pp. 151 - 201). The chapter starts: "The French Chef series, which debuted on Boston's public television station, WGBH, on February 11, 1963, was not only...
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