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The Slow Food Russian River Book Group will discuss from One Size Fits None: A Farm Girl’s Search for the Promise of Regenerative Agriculture (2019) by Stephanie Anderson. The Book Group usually meets the first Thursday of the month, 7 – 9 pm, at a location chosen by the rotating moderators,...

The Slow Food Russian River Book Group will discuss Lot's Wife: Salt and the Human Condition, by Sallie Tisdale on May 2, 7-9pm in Sebastopol, CA. The Slow Food Russian River Book Group usually meets the first Thursday of the month, 7 – 9 pm, at a location chosen by...

The Slow Food Russian River Book Group will be discussing The New Food Activism: Opposition, Cooperation, and Collective Action, by Alison Alkon and Julie Guthman (eds.) (University of California Press, 2017). The Book Group meets the first Thursday of the month, 7 – 9pm, usually in Sebastopol. It’s a convivial dinner. Please bring...

For this Book Group meeting, we will commemorate Anthony Bourdain, 1956–2018, by discussing some of his writings, and a few obituaries. At our Book Group session, we will watch some of the work he did for television. Please prepare a dish using a Bourdain recipe or otherwise inspired by him. Reading suggestions (thank you...

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...

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 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 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 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:...