Slow Food Russian River Book Group

For this Piccolo we’re reading Insatiable: Tales From a Life of Delicious Excess, by Gael Greene, Acknowledgements, Chapters 11-23, (pp. 56-137). Chapter 11 starts: “I was a decade ahead of America's sensuality explosion in the fifties and leaped into the foodie vanguard in the sixties. I didn't know much, but I already...

For this Piccolo we’re reading Insatiable: Tales From a Life of Delicious Excess, by Gael Greene, Acknowledgements, Chapters 24-32, (pp. 138-201). Chapter 24 starts: “Press junkets and free meals were strictly forbidden to New York magazine citics and contributing editors. But there was not way I could refuse … " Gael Green's...

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...

The Slow Food Russian River Book Group will be discussing The Perfect Egg and Other Secrets (Bloomsbury, 2004), by Aldo Buzzi. Illustrations by Saul Steinberg. Translated from the Italian by Guido Waldman from L'uovo alla kok: ricette, curiosita (Adelphi, 1979). About Aldo Buzzi: Aldo Buzzi (10 August 1910 – 9 October 2009) was...

The Slow Food Russian River Book Group will be discussing Land Justice: Re-imagining Land, Food, and the Commons, edited by Justine M. Williams and Eric Holt-Giménez (Food First Books/Institute for Food and Development Policy, 2017). We welcome contributor Caiti Hachmyer, food movement activist and farmer at Red H Farm in Sebastopol, CA to...

The Slow Food Russian River Book Group will be discussing What She Ate: Six Remarkable Women and the Food That Tells Their Stories (Viking, 2017), by Laura Shapiro. The Book Group meets the first Thursday of the month, 7 – 9pm in Sebastopol. It’s a convivial dinner. Please bring a dish for four...