For this Piccolo we’re reading Insatiable: Tales From a Life of Delicious Excess, by Gael Greene, Acknowledgements, Chapters 33-41, (pp. 202-281). Chapter 33 starts: “Once upon a time in the dim dawn of oral history, there was no Williams-Sonoma international bazaar of kitchen and tableware in every mall, no De Gustibus famous...

For this Piccolo we’re reading Insatiable: Tales From a Life of Delicious Excess, by Gael Greene, Acknowledgements, Chapters 42-51, (pp. 282-357). Chapter 51 ends: “I can't wait to taste the food of the third generation of great American chefs. I can't wait to see what madness young rebels are cooking up in...

The Slow Food Russian River Book Group will be discussing Inside the California Food Revolution: Thirty Years That Changed Our Culinary Consciousness (Univerity of California Press, 2013), by Joyce Goldstein, with Dore Brown. After we read this book we can participate in any conversation about regional food history! About Joyce Golstein:...

The Slow Food Russian River Book Group will be discussing Letters to a Young Farmer: On Food, Farming, and Our Future, (Princeton Architectural Press, 2017), edited by Martha Hodgkins for the Stone Barns Center for Food and Agriculture. About Martha Hodgkins and the Stone Barns Center for Food and Agriculture: The Stone Barns...