Are you passionate about food? Do you have a curiosity about cutting-edge restaurants or food entrepreneurs? Do you know what’s the future of CSAs or Farmers Markets? Are you impassionate about ending hunger or providing living wages for everyone in the food system? Do you like to take pictures, shoot…
Attending the second SlowMeat Symposium in Denver, was a very positive experience for me. The delegates came from many nations of the world. The sessions were informative, the food very good. I was most impressed by the growth in participation and the quality of dialogs since last year’s SlowMeat2014. Great momentum…
The County Supervisors – each and every one of them – have shown a lack of moral courage – not to mention disregard for enlightened environmental practices, and basic intelligent good sense – when they voted unanimously to bow down to the pressures of a lawsuit brought by neighbors of…
Santo Isadoro is a small, coastal Portuguese village rising above the ocean mists of the Atlantic. On sunny days, tourists flock to the neighboring city of Ericera, where they can enjoy the waves, go to surf school, and read billboards in English. While two miles away, the residents of sleepy…
Growing up in Southern California in the 70s, we rarely ate liver. On those occasions when it was on the dinner table, my mom would serve calf liver with onions and bacon. For my siblings and I, the reaction was always the same. Liver? For dinner? Yuck. Unanimous. Every time….
Once a year for the past five or six years I have visited French friends who live in Saint-Sulpice-sur-Tarn, a small village in the south of France that has several good bakeries and butcher shops. The first full day in the village I usually wander down to the boulangerie and…
Slow Meat 2015 – a Symposium and a Fair on the desired future of meat in America – is upon us and five members of Slow Food Russian River are busy packing their bags to participate in this unique initiative of Slow Food USA which will happen June 4-6, 2015 in…
Are you a shutterbug who loves delicious and distinct foods? Want to get your image in front of the tens of thousands of people in the Slow Food USA network? Then help us celebrate your local food treasures for a chance to have your photo appear as the cover image…
The Book Group will have a break in the summer and we are planning a film series of films in downtown Sebastopol about the culture of food. If you are interested in joining the organizing team, please email SFRR Film Group.